2009 in Review

With the end of the year approaching and a new blog starting up here for me, I figured I would seed this new blog with a retrospective on my blogging from 2009.

First, my five most viewed blog posts from 2009:

• August 18, 2009: IBM InfoSphere Classification Module 8.7 is Announced!
• April 7, 2009: Can you completely rely on your email users?
• April 29, 2009: Classification at Regional UserNets
• September 4, 2009: Scaling out the Human Element with Content Classification
• April 1, 2009: Who actually reads all of their email?

Analysis: Many folks want the facts. And the release announcement was far and away the most widely read post.

Independently, I compiled the list of my 5 favorite posts from the year (in no particular order)

• August 27, 2009: Nobody’s Perfect: How Are You Going to Deal With It?
• July 23, 2009: Voicemail, Email and my Dad
• June 5, 2009: Email: The Difference Between Good Policy and Good Practices
• April 13, 2009: Disk is cheap but it’s not free: saving every email
• April 1, 2009: Who actually reads all of their email?

I am especially fond of the Voicemail, Email and my Dad post for obvious reasons – and it was the post most frequently mentioned by others to me in conversation.

The “Disk is Cheap” post is also a favorite because that has become one of my frequently used phrases when talking about content classification – and I’m sure it will be even more so as I talk about content decommissioning for InfoSphere Content Assessment in the coming year.

Similarly, “Nobody’s Perfect: How Are You Going to Deal With It?” has become a favorite as I think it hits on an issue that I’m frequently discussing with customers: expectations of perfection from content analytics where the human-based alternatives are well short of ideal.

Lastly, “Who actually reads all of their email?“ is a favorite because it was one of those posts where inspiration hit in the morning, I cranked out the post quickly, posted later that day and by the end of the year it was one of the top read posts I put out.

Here’s hoping that there’s many more posts like that to come in 2010.

Happy New Year.

Archives from “The Classification World”

My previous blog, The Classification World, is hosted on ibm.com. Its charter was focused more specifically on content classification and its increasing necessity in enterprise content management (ECM) and specifically compliance applications.  This blog will continue to cover the topics of The Classification World but it will also expand to other related topics with respect to content analytics, structured information and metadata, and broader topics in ECM and Information Management. Before I embark on this new, expanded journey, here is a comprehensive manifest for The Classification World for the reader’s future reference:

• November 12, 2009: AIIM 8 Things e-books on ERM
• November 10, 2009: Content Assessment: Get Insight into your Content in the Wild
• October 25, 2009: ARMA 2009 & IOD 2009
• September 25, 2009: Email Compliance: The Aggressive Deleter
• September 22, 2009: Moral Hazard and Automated Classification
• September 4, 2009: Scaling out the Human Element with Content Classification
• August 27, 2009: Nobody’s Perfect: How Are You Going to Deal With It?
• August 18, 2009: IBM InfoSphere Classification Module 8.7 is Announced!
• August 4, 2009: Meeting the Content Tsunami: Quick Thoughts
• August 4, 2009: Events of Note
• July 23, 2009: Voicemail, Email and my Dad
• June 25, 2009: 8 Things You Need to Know about Content Classification and ECM
• June 24, 2009: Fun with tag clouds
• June 19, 2009: Classification in Action: File Systems, Email and More
• June 9, 2009: Classification Paper at DESI III Workshop
• June 5, 2009: Email: The Difference Between Good Policy and Good Practices
• June 1, 2009: Tidal “Wave” of Information Makes for More Decisions
• May 26, 2009: Boston Regional Usernet
• May 18, 2009: Shall We Play A Game?
• April 30, 2009: Classification at IOD EMEA 2009
• April 29, 2009: Classification at Regional UserNets
• April 23, 2009: Be a Classification Optimist
• April 13, 2009: Disk is cheap but it’s not free: saving every email
• April 7, 2009: Can you completely rely on your email users?
• April 1, 2009: Who actually reads all of their email?
• March 24, 2009: Upcoming KMWorld Webinar
• March 24, 2009: Follow me on Twitter
• March 16, 2009: Automated Classification Now! (Part 2)
• March 10, 2009: Now is the Time for Automatic Classification (Part 1)
• February 25, 2009: Take in your surroundings when classifying content
• February 9, 2009: Rely on Humans to Classify and Dispose — ARod regrets that approach
• January 28, 2009: Consistency is key . . . and content classification provides it
• January 15, 2009: Advanced Classification on the New IBM ECM Compliance Site
• January 9, 2009: It works for spam, it can work inside your enterprise too
• January 9, 2009: Content Collection and Classification
• December 16, 2008: IBM Classification Module Version 8.6 is Announced
• December 15, 2008: What is Content Classification
• December 12, 2008: Hello (Classification) World