Records Books for Records Managers: Soll’s “The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s Secret State Intelligence System” by , for

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At 22, I embarked on my journey to write the first of many bad but earnest pieces of nonfiction: my undergraduate thesis.  It described the voyage of the first shipment of women to (what is... read more

Update on Records Center Collapse by , for

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The following is not for the faint of here. Previously I blogged about Recall, the offsite records storage center in the DC suburbs that had a roof collapse.  A colleague of mine is a f... read more

The State of the Art in Records Management – Part One by , for

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Over the past couple of years I have come to the realization that with the many changes taking place in our industry there is a new “State of the Art” in Records Management.  Th... read more

Content Obesity - Can you recognise the symptoms? by , for

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I would be interested to know: Have you detected trends of Content Obesity in your organisation? If so, how are you dealing with it at the moment? If you have not come across Content Obesity... read more

Credentialing for IM Professionals; A Perfect Match by , for

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The secure career path may be up in the air for some information management professionals while at the same time the search by HR professionals to recruit talent in information technology (IT) a... read more

Collapse - not only a bad record for the stock market, but also for records managers by , for

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When managing electronic records, particularly those in the cloud, security is of utmost importance.  Paper records, because of our long history with them, have proven to be less challengin... read more

Saints case proves there is more to discovery than strict legal compliance by , for

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Football coaches and records managers everywhere have just received a forcible reminder that there is more to document discovery than compliance with legal mandate. In case you haven't h... read more

Member of the Week: Erica Johnson - Records, Change Management, SharePoint, and Big Buckets by , for

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Erica Johnson, Enterprise Content Management Specialist at Freeport-McMorRan Copper & Gold, is our first member of the week nominated by a co-worker. I’ll let Greg Fitzgerald, who nomi... read more

AIIM Training Update by , for

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When AIIM released the very first ECM and ERM Master Classes in January 2006 we had no idea how big this would be. More than 20,000 students later, AIIM has established itself as the leading pro... read more

Why the RMA is DEAD by , for

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The Records Management Application (RMA) as defined in days past is now an anachronism.  The traditional RMA was a back-end system that only managed records once they were declared.  T... read more