The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) has scheduled a series of seven Webinars through September and October covering topics ranging from enterprise content management processes to collaboration tools and techniques. These Wednesday Webinars, as AIIM calls them, look like they'll be a good, free way to get familiar with some fairly complex topics.AIIM has long been a helpful resource for the content management community with its print publication (relaunching as Infonomics with the upcoming issue), its Web site, and more recently, with the Wednesday Webinar series.

Here's a rundown of the events, most of which start at 2 p.m. Eastern, 11 a.m. Pacific. Click the links for more information and to register:

Sept. 10: Assessing Your Document Capture Requirements -- An overview of document capture, management, and archiving tools and processes.

Sept. 17: Collaboration, not Chaos -- A look at the processes, policies, and tools that help improve collaboration within an organization.

Sept. 24: Customer-focused Content Begins with Collaboration -- Best practices for collaboratively creating and presenting content to customers.

Sept. 25: Are you Managing Your Processes, or are They Managing you? -- An overview of AIIM's Q3 2008 Market IQ on Business Process Management report.

Oct. 8: E-Mail Management on Demand: Find Out How -- A look at hosted e-mail management solutions, including support for automated filing, archiving, and disposal.

Oct. 15: Digital Preservation: Challenges and Benefits -- An overview of electronic document archiving and long-term preservation approaches, with a look at best practices as well as pitfalls to avoid.

Oct. 22: Can eDiscovery be Standardized? -- Learning how to simplify and standardize eDiscovery efforts for legal and regulatory needs.

One note -- AIIM itself is an independent organization, and while there are vendor sponsorships for most of the Webinars, the speakers don't appear to be directly affiliated with them. So, in other words, you're not signing up for an hour-long sales pitch.