Are Certifications Important When Selecting a Records Management System? by , for

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As regulatory and compliance mandates raise pressures on organizations across all industries, the need to control diverse forms of content has increased exponentially. Too much information, held... read more

Email Archiving - How to engage an organization in discussing retention matters by , for

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Email archiving tools are not always intended as official recordkeeping systems.  Unfortunately, users may rely on the ability to retrieve records from an archive as a convenience rath... read more

Garbage Internet e-Records by , for

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Despite our constant use of the Internet to create e-records by using Web sites, I am still amazed at how many ways the records creation process is subverted or undermined. In the paper world a... read more

Rebooting the Human Mindset - The Invisible Challenge by , for

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  Google + brings about a renewed wave of energy in the Social Networking scene. 30% of my Twitter (another Social Networking phenomenon) now buzzes with Google + and rel... read more

Poke Me in the Eye with a Fork - SME Review of Retention Schedules by , for

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In our consulting practice, we do not require ECRM system users to understand complex records retention schedules (RRS) in order to achieve records management compliance. Instead we embed the re... read more

An ECM Perspective on ERM: Your Penchant for Over-Retaining is Costing You by , for

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Guest Blog posting from my esteemed colleague Ed White, VP and Senior Architect at Bank of America There is a lot of truth to the saying that “you don’t own your possessions, you... read more

Keeping Records Long Enough by , for

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Todd Johnson, CRM, recently queried the RM Listserv, " In developing our retention schedule, I'm coming across multiple instances where the business need to retain certain records excee... read more

Can We Automate Retention? by , for

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In her recent post @ http://aiimcommunities.org/erm/blog/retention-needs-enema, Julie Cogan noted that some innovation in developing and implementing retention schedules is happening in the cont... read more

Corporate Social Media: Wild Card for Information Governance? by , for

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The predictions for 2011 are clear: corporate social business will grow! Deployment and use of social media are the basis of the model Enterprise  2.0, which also was the subject o... read more

Tagging Electronic Records - There’s No ‘onomy’ in Folksonomy by , for

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Organizations need a strategy for tagging (assigning metadata to) records and information in ECRM systems. Referencing work by Clay Shirky, Emanuele Quintarelli, and others, Tom Reamy summarizes... read more