Let’s Not Forget Archive Documents

I’ve found myself playing around archives for a few projects.  Usually it is for my blog Finnish Not Done, which would not exist if it were not for archives of the migration of Finnish people in the Americas.  I recently used archives for a story about AIIM’s early history, which got me thinking.  When talking... Continue Reading →

Records Management Programs Need a Diet

Last week at the AIIM Conference, I noticed that lots of companies are looking for the quick win on records management.  There’s no such thing.  Users need to realize records management is like a diet.  At my annual physical my doctor keeps telling me to eat right and exercise.  I do neither, so can I... Continue Reading →

Social Content is on the Record as being Record Content

Organizations have been quick to adopt social channels as a new communication mechanism.  But the records aspect of these channels is often ignored.  Control over instant messaging (AOL Instant Messenger) was ignored by trading companies fourteen years ago until word got out.  But oddly, the problem is still happening today.  As new social channels are... Continue Reading →

Twas The Night Before Trial

Twas the night before trial and all through the office. Not a lawyer was stirring, not even the novice The papers were filed, all straight in their folders, The ones they had burned were down to a smolder Paralegals and analysts passed out in their cubes Their drawings and flipcharts all rolled up in tubes... Continue Reading →

Records Management Drawn and Quartered

Records management is in constant flux. Litigation, like the ownership of email, and new technologies, like PSS Systems, continue to mold the way records are understood. Sarbanes Oxley did look to normalize a lot of what a company is required to keep but even this changes as litigation looks to rewrite the rules. No matter... Continue Reading →

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