Records & Information Management (RIM)
Institute of Certified Records Managers (ICRM) & CIGO Association announce Strategic Alliance
By Robert Smallwood
TO OFFER NEW CRM/CIGO CERTIFICATION Albany, NY and San Diego, CA, October 1, 2020 - The Institute of Certified Records Managers (ICRM) and the Certified Information Governance Officers Association (CIGOA) announce a strategic alliance partnership to jointly offer a new ...
ARMA IG Survey Falls Short
By IGW Staff
In March, ARMA International released the results of the first of a planned annual series of IG surveys, “IG Maturity Index Report – 2020,” sponsored by NetGovern, a Montreal-based software company that specializes in email and archiving, which recently added ...
NARA Following Through on White House Directive to go Paperless
By Andrew Ysasi
On June 28, 2019, the White House issued a memo from Russell Vought the Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget and David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The memo highlights the ...
New Coronavirus Outbreak A Personal Perspective
By Robert Bailey
The SARS epidemic began in 2003, slightly less than 2 years after I departed from Singapore to Vancouver, BC, Canada to accept an adjunct teaching position in the SLAIS program, University of British Columbia. Before the illness could be contained, ...
Interview with Andrew Ysasi
By Robert Smallwood
Andrew Ysasi has over 20 years of professional experience in records management, including sales, IT, and management roles, leading to ten years of executive management at Kent Records Management, which was acquired earlier this year by Vital Records Control (VRC). ...
Interview with Monica Crocker
By Robert Smallwood
Monica Crocker is the Group Records Coordinator for Wells Fargo’s Wealth & Investment Management business. In her role, she mitigates the risk associated with electronic and physical records. She began her career as a Digital Imaging Consultant in 1993, defining ...
PRIA Publishes Best Practices for Land Records Management Systems
By IGW Staff
RALEIGH, N.C. –The Property Records Industry Association (PRIA) has approved and published a paper on Land Records Management Systems (LRMS) Best Practices. This publication, four years in development, is intended to help recorders evaluate their current LRMS, prepare ...
Creating a Sustainable RIM program – Fact or Fiction
By Fred Diers
Does an Enterprise Records & Information Management Program Really Exist? There are many articles, webinars, educational seminars, and champions professing the need for, and benefits of, a compliant Records and Information Management (RIM) program. ARMA International even offers ...
Busy Intersection – Records Management’s Intersection with Data Privacy Management
By Teresa Schoch
With the tsunamic rise in electronic information doubling at regular intervals, complexity in information management has resulted in newly created or redefined roles tasked with creating order out of chaos. Information professionals attempt to control their domains in roles ...
Federal Records Report Findings
By Andrew Ysasi
In the recent Federal Agency Records Management (FARM) report findings, Alex Sisserson wrote an article called, “The Challenges of Analog Records Management,” which highlighted the findings of the Federal Agency Records Management (FARM) report. The report highlighted several concerns that ...
Interview with Pat Franks
By Mark Driskill
Dr. Pat Franks authored Records and Information Management (2013, 2018) and co-edited the Encyclopedia of Archival Science (2015), Teaching and Learning in Virtual Environments: Archives, Museums, and Libraries (2016), and the International Directory of National Archives (2018). Currently she ...
How to save Records Management from Self Destructing Messages
By Jason R Barron
With the consent of its editors, the following is an abridged version of an article that appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of “Ethical Boardroom” magazine, a UK publication. Every month more than four billion people send 560 billion ...
An Interview with Paula Lederman
By IGW Staff
Paula is a leading RIM Expert, Partner at IMERGE Consulting Today we are talking with Paula Lederman, Partner at IMERGE Consulting. Paula has over 15 years of consulting and training experience in the field of content and information management in ...
ARMA Merges with Information Coalition
By IG Guru
During a call to ARMA Members today, Jocelyn Gunter, CEO of ARMA International, announced a merger with the Information Coalition and InfoGov Con. Information Coalitions Founder, Nick Inglis, will be ARMA’s Executive Director of Content and Jim Merrifield will be ...
What is the Difference between Information Management and IG?
By IGW Staff
IM vs. IG Many professionals are often confused and struggle to define the differences between Information Management (IM) and Information Governance. We’ll explain here, simply and clearly. IM includes the how of managing information that is executed mostly by your ...
Tools for GDPR Compliance
By IGW Staff
The Records Continuum and Technology Assisted Review With GDPR now fully implemented, there is no shortage of software offerings claiming to help businesses manage the complex regulatory environment presented to businesses outside the EU. However, IG practitioners should remember that ...
Defining Vital Records
By IGW Staff
Vital records are mission-critical records necessary for an organization to continue to operate in the event of disruption or disaster (e.g., fire, flood, hacker attack); and records that cannot be recreated from any other source. A disaster recovery (DR)/business continuity ...
Bringing Your RIM Program to the 21st Century
By Andrew Ysasi
Competing corporate programs and priorities have often tended to push the agenda for many Records and Information Management (RIM) programs aside. Cybersecurity programs, IT projects, cost-cutting initiatives, digital innovation and regular RIM operations can seem like plugging holes in a leaky dam ...
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