A true OxyMoron move is to radically combine what “is” with what “could be.” I recently came across a fascinating New York Times article about exactly that — a combination of 15th century Vatican manuscripts and scanning/capture and Blockchain. Say what? Find out more in my conversation with Rich Seery and Chao Cheng-Shorland - it will get you rethinking some of your core assumptions about records management, governance, and digital assets.

The courts may have been physically closed for most of the past two years, but litigants were still litigating, and judges were still handing down significant decisions on eDiscovery, privacy, data security, security, artificial intelligence, and other hot Information Governance topics. How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the conduct of civil litigation, especially discovery?

Lewis Eisen believes that how you word your policies is as important as their content. Your organization does not demonstrate that it values cooperation, teamwork, inclusiveness, or respect if the wording of its policies conveys that the objective is obedience. What kinds of OxyMoron skills are needed to make governance policies truly effective?

Augmented reality and IG? Say what? This is just a glimpse into the fun governance topics we covered in my conversation with Steve Weissman.

Organizations are faced with myriad security concerns, and at times understanding these concerns can be overwhelming. IG professionals are required to understand security threats to their organizations and the information they are charged to protect. Why and how are OxyMoron skills needed to deal with these challenges?

My first encounter with Dan Antion was as a member of the Board and Chair of AIIM, where he shared over 30 years of experience in technology with American Nuclear Insurers. That’s Act One for Dan.

But Act Two - and all good OxyMorons have at least a second act - reveals a rich vein of hidden creativity. I LOVE Dan’s creative side — woodworking, creative writing, cycling, photography — and that doesn’t even include a 30-year love affair with a Triumph Spitfire and routine maintenance of a couple of Dodge pickup trucks. Check out his blog, "No Facilities," for details. Even the name of the blog is sparked with creativity, something I can appreciate as the original creator of "Digital Landfill," a name I still love and can’t believe I was foolish enough to give to AIIM.

One of my personal OxyMoron projects was to discover the story of my mystery vanished grandparents and turn that story into a book. I couldn’t have done it without Reedsy.com, an OxyMoron story that is disrupting the publications industry. In this livestream conversation with Reedsy.com co-founder and OxyMoron Ricardo Fayet I explore these questions: What is Reedsy? Where did the idea come from? How did they make it a reality? What’s next for Reedsy?

I was inspired by a recent podcast by my friend Steve Weissman to book Angela Watt for OxyMorons. Too frequently, IG professionals try to “sell” IG by focusing on risk reduction and compliance. How can IG professionals directly involve themselves in their organizations and use IG to impact corporate culture?

How are organizations managing the generational divide? Which generational group suffered the most during the COVID pandemic?

How do you move from ECM strategies that are departmental and suboptimal into a truly strategic approach? Especially in the public sector?

I have known Charley for many years, going back to his days in the federal government. He is a true OxyMoron. Charley became Global Director of Enterprise Content Management at Cummins Inc. in late 2014 with a daunting task - set up an ECM and RM capability in a global Fortune 500 company. How did he approach this challenge? What challenges did he face? What lessons did he learn?

What keeps otherwise effective organizations from deploying innovative governance technologies? -- In this special edition, I talk with two innovators about the role of OxyMorons in overcoming change resistance.

Per Thornton, "In our contentious times, the ONE Thing that EVERYONE can agree upon is that EVERY Organization, EVERY Executive, EVERY Individual, and EVERY Object is on a digital journey. Sadly, most have no map, no guide and bad shoes.”

Glenn decided to write a book about a passion near and dear to me - effective presenting. His election to the ranks of OxyMorons is based on the fact that unlike many of us (including me!) he not only THOUGHT about writing a book, he ACTUALLY DID IT. Find out how.

Mark leads the Joint Staff's Information Management Team and is a past AIIM Chair and AIIM Fellow. I can bear personal witness to his OxyMoron Visionary Pragmatist skills - find out more about how he gets things done in an extremely complex environment.

My guest this week is my old friend Atle Skjekkeland, who was gracious enough to be my beta test for the program, and on top of that is one of the biggest OxyMorons I know. Although during the many years that we have worked together, we both likely have been tempted to leave off the “Oxy” part of the noun in referring to each other.