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Yearly Archives: 2011

Technology: What Will Be the Successor to Flash?

By Dick Weisinger

Web browsers aren’t very good at handling video, if they can handle it all.  Enter the plugin.  The major Web browsers have been architected to be flexible, enabling developers to extend  basic browser functionality by way of creating plug-ins.  …

Social Media: How Are Businesses Addressing the Challenge

By Dick Weisinger

In a report from AIIM on how Social Media is affecting businesses and the way that they operate, the following survey findings are reported: 43 percent of organizations bar their employees from accessing social media sites 44 percent of organizations…

Records Management: Making a Good RM Program Better

By Dick Weisinger

Oce Business Services recently reported on the results of a survey of Records Management programs currently in place at businesses having annual revenues greater than $100 million.   Their goal was to find out more about how existing RM programs…

Cloud Computing: Growing Five Times Faster Than All Other IT Spending

By Dick Weisinger

A recent IDC report finds that global IT spending is on track to grow by about 6 percent in 2011.  Pretty respectable.  But that rate of growth is dwarfed when compared to what is happening in the area of cloud…

Health Care: Government Pilots Kick Off for Health Record Sharing Project

By Dick Weisinger

This month the federal government launched a pilot in Minnesota and Rhode Island for the sharing of electronic health records via the internet.  The pilot is being called “the Direct Project“.   The pilot will expand next into New York,…