From Jim Till, Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President of Marketing at Xythos
Jim Till, Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President of Marketing at Xythos (a Blackboard Company) has spent the last 15 years working together with customers and partners in the content management, collaboration and data storage areas. Last year, Jim began blogging about his work at Just Sharing, which is an entertaining and insightful read on key trends and developments in enterprise content management (ECM), collaboration, Software as a Service (SaaS) and online storage and security.
Jim recently blogged about a series of white papers, published by Xythos, which chronicle the challenges and successes experienced by three different institutions working to improve how they manage content across their organizations. Informative reading for others in higher education and business that are working on similar initiatives. Following is an excerpt from the blog item, and a link to read the full post at his site. You can also read the entire white paper; "Saving Money by Managing Content More Effectively," Institutions profiled include the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Fairfield University, and Santa Barbara City College.
From Just Sharing:
“These days, you can practically find an “ECM Expert” on any corner. Heck, I even pretend to be one once in a while. However, I honestly believe that the real experts are those IT leaders who are putting content management technology to work in their own organizations. These are the managers and staff that have to live with the potential risks associated with new technology introductions. They’ve seen the consequences of good, and not so good software deployments and have learned how to deal with them...” Read more here.
