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Retention vs. Records Management

Gimmal

Records management is an important component of any information governance strategy , but do you know what goes into your records management strategy to be successful? Retention is a strategy that focuses on reducing the volume of information your company has to manage. What is Records Management?

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5 Reasons Your Files and Records are ROT(ting)

Gimmal

Redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) information likely dominates your content stores. Whether it’s your network file shares, EFSS locations such as Box and Dropbox, or even your email accounts, a large portion of content and records is essentially useless. Five Reasons Your Files are ROT(ting) 1.

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MS Teams Information Governance - A Checklist for Success

AIIM

The information flow is complicated, and the governance implications are substantial. Every aspect of content flow and collaboration – including Microsoft Teams and its information—must be integral to the organization’s approach to information governance. What is your existing Information Governance strategy?

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5 Reasons Your Files are ROT(ting)

Gimmal

Redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) information likely dominates your content stores. Whether it's your network file shares, EFSS locations such as Box and Dropbox, or even your e mail accounts, a large portion of content is essentially useless.

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Information Literacy and Records Management

Brandeis Records Manager

Program Director for University Records Management, Brandeis University. A keen sense of info literacy is required to execute records management and info governance functions with ethical outcomes. Like records management , info literacy has considerable social justice implications.

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Looking Back At Information Governance in 2018

Everteam

2018 was the year enterprises started seriously investing in their information governance programs. It’s not that they didn’t do governance before, but the increase in compliance and regulations, including the new privacy regulations has pushed for improvements to how enterprise think about and apply information governance processes.

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What Can We Learn About the IG Profession from the ARMA InfoCon 2020 Taxonomy

ARMA International

Now, many of the terms in our taxonomy represent common themes you’d expect to see at an ARMA conference, terms like “records management,” “information governance,” and “information management.” On the need to reflect more clarity, a great example is the term “records management.”

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