Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Digital Landfill "Prognosticator of the Year?"

Announcing -- drum roll please -- the Digital Landfill Prognosticator of the Year competition.

Here's your chance for fame, fortune, happiness, or [you fill in the blank].

I'd like to use the "wisdom of the experts" validated by the "wisdom of the crowd" to determine the top ten content and information management trends that will matter to information professionals over the next 12-18 months.

Here are the rules...

Identify what you think is the most important trend in the marketplace of concern to information professionals. Do so with the mindset that your trend will be evaluated by the "wisdom of the AIIM crowd" against two criteria...

1 -- How IMPORTANT or SIGNIFICANT is the trend?

And perhaps even more important...

2 -- How UNIQUE or INSIGHTFUL is this trend? (i.e., it makes you think, "Gee, I hadn't thought of that.")

Your submission should be made directly via a comment on this blog and should be in this format -- The trend itself, crystalized into 10 words or less, followed by NO MORE than 50 words providing whatever explanation you choose.

The submissions are due NO LATER THAN December 29 January 6.  They will be circulated for validation and evaluation to the AIIM community the first second week in January, and the winners will be announced the 2nd 3rd week of January.

Here's what the winners get...

1 -- Publication of the trend in special issue of Digital Landfill, augmented by lots of tweeting.

2 -- A link back to your site.

3 -- A cool badge to use on your site.

4 -- The praise of millions.  Er - thousands.

Let the submissions begin!

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Comments

[David Wachter]

Enterprise Social Media Deployments Will Hit Snag on ROI Requirement

Despite the hype around "social in the enterprise,” a majority of CFOs will stand firm in their requirement for demonstrated ROI before business social solutions transition from pilot to broader enterprise deployment. This will force social vendors to understand business requirements vs. just focusing on what E2.0 functionality they provide.

David Wachter
CMO @Hivemine

[Bud Porter-Roth]

Cloud Applications Start Talking to Each Other

The next important trend will be cloud applications that talk to each other and provide processing of data or other supporting functional applications to a primary cloud application. A collaboration application like Box.com will be augmented/enhanced by applications that provide such things as records management, governance & compliance, conversion services, OCR, indexing services, search, project management, ERP, CRM and others.

[James Latham]

Understanding your Content.

2012 brings in a ubiquitous realization of the burgeoning volume of information created by large organizations. The value of that information, particularly unstructured data types, is locked up inside. The trend for information managers is to spur IT to technically enable the organisation to understand what information it owns, what restrictions there are on it, and also how it can be accessed and used. Using Content Analytics to understand and Semantic Navigation to classify and expose, we'll be able to unlock the ability to derive value from the vast information store.

[Peter]

^^^^ what Bud said.

[Patrick Lujan]

I predict that James Latham will get an 800 on his verbal SAT this year.