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Stephen Downes

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Thomas Davenport writes, "A centralized highly engineered approach to this vast amount of information is clearly untenable. Even the most carefully maintained records are of no value unless they are used. Information management strategies that make every employee a records manager seem to be the only viable alternative." This theme is nicely developed as the authors look at the need for personal information management and argue for organic, bottom up systems to accomplish this task.

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