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Steve Weissman is looking into multichannel delivery (paper, Web, mobile, etc.).
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You spend days, weeks, sometimes months gathering your facts, composing your content, obtaining the necessary reviews and approvals, formatting the document, and, in most cases, either printing it to paper or creating a PDF so you can send it out....
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is digging into healthcare IT, esp. for connecting patients to doctors, and doctors to themselves. Blog with me at www.hollygroup.com/blog!
October 29
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This wasn’t the theme of this week’s AIIM New England Chapter meeting, but it may as well have been since both guest speakers waxed eloquently about the need for, and emerging adoption of, health information systems that connect patients to their ...
October 29
Well said! We could set up the perfect system that is flawless in design, but that of course would be in the mind of the creator not the user. Once the user enters the picture it changes the entire picture. User acceptance and buy in are difficul...
October 21
Steve Weissman and Rui Oliveira are now friends
October 16
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An interesting recent conversation with a few of our industry’s most seasoned executives reinforced to this observer that the biggest points of pain associated with content management still relate to human beings, not technology. By and large, the...
October 16
Steve Weissman is again an independent analyst! Centered on compliance, forms/records/content management & print/Web delivery. Y'all come!
October 16

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About Me:
A trade journalist and industry analyst since 1979, Steve Weissman is known for his strong business sense, marketing savvy, and innate ability to pinpoint critical success factors for clients. This has enabled him to steward scores of successful consulting engagements, research programs, and industry forums for vendors, VARs, resellers, integrators, and buyers of information technology who are looking to maximize the value of their technology investments.

Mr. Weissman is highly regarded for his pragmatic analyses and populist style; as such, he is in constant demand as an industry expert and as a dynamic public speaker, a role in which he regularly 'wows' audiences at industry forums, user and channel conferences, and association annual meetings. Formerly Program Chair of the AIIM Conference Committee and ECM West, he is an ongoing resource for the trade, business, and general press, where the likes of Business Week, Red Herring, InfoWorld, and Network World, and television programs as diverse as World Business Review and Entertainment Tonight, frequently seek his input and opinions.

Recently returned to the ranks of independent industry analysts, Mr. Weissman spent three years as Senior Analyst, Director of Marketing, and Program Director at Insight Forums and its once-sister operations Art Plus Technology and NEPS LLC. Before that, Mr. Weissman was the founder of Kinetic Information LLC, a business strategy consulting and software industry analyst firm he led for 12 years. Prior to that, he was Senior Consultant at Hurwitz Consulting Group, where he focused on the automation of organizational workflows and the tools used to build the software infrastructure. Before that, he was Business Development Director at both BIS Strategic Decisions and Arthur D. Little Decision Resources, for which he spearheaded new research on the use and management of a wide range information technologies.

Weissman's Other Life

When not plying the technology trades, Weissman pursues his love of baseball by writing, speaking, and consulting on the subject. Author of the acclaimed book Beach Chairs and Baseball Bats: A Celebration of the Cape Cod Baseball League, he is the Boston Baseball Examiner on examiner.com, contributes regularly to The Sports Exchange on WATD radio in Marshfield, Massachusetts, and advises professional and amateur sports teams about fan research and marketing strategy. He also is a Ripken-certified youth baseball coach in his third decade in the dugout. See him at the ballyard anytime!

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Write Once, Distribute Many: The Content Publisher’s Dream

You spend days, weeks, sometimes months gathering your facts, composing your content, obtaining the necessary reviews and approvals, formatting the document, and, in most cases, either printing it to paper or creating a PDF so you can send it out.

And then the questions come:

- I don’t really need all of this. Can you send me only the pages I care most about?
- I’m about to get on a plane. Can I get this on my smartphone so I can read it there?
- I’d really like my whole team to see what you w… Continue

Posted on November 3, 2009 at 2:05pm —

Steve Weissman

Physicians, Heal Thyselves

This wasn’t the theme of this week’s AIIM New England Chapter meeting, but it may as well have been since both guest speakers waxed eloquently about the need for, and emerging adoption of, health information systems that connect patients to their doctors, and doctors to each other.

Girish Kumar Navani of eClinicalWorks (www.eclinicalworks.com) and David Cochrane of Vermont Information Technology Leaders (www.vitl.net)… Continue

Posted on October 29, 2009 at 3:00pm —

Steve Weissman

Oh the Humanity! Most Points of Pain Are Beyond Technology’s Reach

An interesting recent conversation with a few of our industry’s most seasoned executives reinforced to this observer that the biggest points of pain associated with content management still relate to human beings, not technology. By and large, the tools today are pretty darn good, but the stark fact remains that getting people to embrace them is as difficult a task as it ever has been.

In no particular order, here are the Top Five Points of Pain as identified by our illustrious little group:

-… Continue

Posted on October 16, 2009 at 1:50pm — 1 Comment

Steve Weissman

Speaker Wanted re Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Shareholder Communications

Attention limelight-seekers! We have an opening for someone to speak about "Why Smaller is Better for Your Shareholder Carbon Footprint" ... it's about content management and delivery, but focused on the kind of content investors and shareholders care most about (prospectuses, proxies, SEC filings, virtual annual meetings, etc.) rather than general business documents.

The event is the Shareholder Communications Symposium, the date is October 7, and the place is the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Chica… Continue

Posted on August 20, 2009 at 2:58pm —

Steve Weissman

Shareholder Services: A Best-Kept Secret Opportunity for Content and Delivery Management?

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately in the area of shareholder communications, digging deep into issues related to new SEC rulings that affect everything from the way prospectuses, proxies, and other critical investor-related documents are written (new, plain language) to the way they are delivered (say goodbye to the thick stack of printed materials that no one reads!).

One of the outcomes of this activity is my growing sense that there’s a lot of opportunity in them thar hills, for both t… Continue

Posted on August 11, 2009 at 12:05pm —

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At 1:53pm on August 22, 2008, James Thumma said…
Hey Steve,

How goes your summer? What wonderful things have you been up to this year?
At 4:56pm on August 21, 2008, Betsy Fanning said…
Welcome. It seems ages since we last talked. Good to know that I will see you on InfoZen.
At 3:00pm on August 21, 2008, Jessica Lombardo said…
Baseball, huh? It has been a few good years for you up in New England.
At 2:59pm on August 21, 2008, Jessica Lombardo said…
Steve, welcome!
At 6:19pm on May 27, 2008, Bob Larrivee said…
I am impressed!

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