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Information Governance and the Records Lifecycle

The Texas Record

” or “RIM” acronym as a shorthand way to refer to the “records and information management” field. Records management (RM) is no longer a siloed discipline; RIM practitioners need to manage records within the entire information landscape of their organizations.

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Do You Have the Right Stuff to Transition to Information Governance?

ARMA International

Follow this trajectory and you’ll push the envelope toward information governance (IG) and position yourself as a Very Important Person in your enterprise. Don’t, and you’ll likely spend your days in an informational silo that’s shown in a corner of the organizational chart.

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Here’s why LinkedIn is a ‘gold mine’ for foreign spies digging for corporate and government secrets via CNBC

IG Guru

A great article about how information can be used for nefarious purposes on LinkedIn. The post Here’s why LinkedIn is a ‘gold mine’ for foreign spies digging for corporate and government secrets via CNBC appeared first on IG GURU. AI Business IG News Information Governance information privacy information security Privacy Risk News CNBC Espionage LinkedIn

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Hackers could use fax machines to take over entire networks, researchers warn

IG Guru

But it could potentially prove to be a gold mine for hackers looking to steal company secrets. IG News Information Governance information security Fax Machines HackersIn an age of instant communication over the internet, the fax machine is seen as an archaic piece of technology. Researchers at Nasdaq-listed Check Point Software Technologiessaid that fax machines — which still reside in many offices — have […].

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31 Letters to Santa from ECM Users

AIIM

I want a new football game and football because my little brother always tries to steal mine. AI needs to be incorporated to make information capture more automatic.”. The new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which will become mandatory as of 25 May 2018 will put further pressure on a firm's information management practices.”. “We Information Governance resides with Records management personnel who have not moved with the times and upgraded their skills.”. “It

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Information Literacy and Records Management

Brandeis Records Manager

Presidential Committee on Information Literacy states that “to be information literate, a person must be able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.” Info literacy has largely become the preserve of the library community , with a focus on teaching scholars and citizens to navigate and to differentiate the information that confronts us. George Despres, CRM.

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Everteam and Technology Vs Corruption

Everteam

The world is leaning towards digital transformation and automated processes in its government transactions, aiming to improve the communication between citizens and public institutions. Everteam has launched several platforms that help regulatory bodies and government institutions monitor the work of departments and institutions and allow the detection of fraud, administrative negligence and bribes.

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Snapshot: College and University Retention Schedules

Brandeis Records Manager

Higher Ed is an industry that generally encourages sharing of open information, in this case providing a view of retention schedules in the aggregate. Granted, this sample is bound by my non-exhaustive search engine results, and it excludes schedules from some well known CUs that elect not to share such information online. grade rosters) that might appear within certain categories, to mine applicable data. George Despres. University Records Manager, Brandeis University.

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Digital sobriety

Everteam

Analyzing , Information Governance , Records Management. A little history… EDM, ECM, Governance, Web 2.0, AIM (Association Information et Management) estimates that the average time spent searching for paper or digital information without finding it is 7.5

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Establishing Records Management at Brandeis—The First Eighteen Months

Brandeis Records Manager

It begins with fact-finding: gathering information, learning the institution, meeting with stakeholders from various functions. We made early acquaintances with Legal and Information Security leaders. Another point to consider is stakeholder busy seasons—I learned the hard way that it was unwise to request information from our registrar before commencement, when he is slammed verifying student credentials. information governance record retention schedules records management

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Archivists and Records Managers, part 12

The Schedule

Stephens wrote an article in Information Management about the evolution and future of the records and information management (RIM) profession. ” He also recounted his appraisal of the business records from a closed copper mining company, lamenting that “these important paper records were preserved by accident rather than design ; had they been electronic, they would have been lost to history.”

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#InfoGov Links Of The Week 02-17-2017

Information is Currency

Companies Still Struggle With Information Governance, Survey Finds. Despite years of talking about information governance and compliance, less than half of companies surveyed have a compliance culture — and many companies apparently have no governance strategy at all. The Need for Information Governance Has Never Been Greater. Yesterday I passed two parts of the ICRM exam. The lead up to it caused me to delay links of the day. Sorry for the delay.

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What Is Our Professional Future?

Brandeis Records Manager

In The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future , Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired, traces the current and future evolution of our digital culture, and by culture I mean the way most people are interacting, and will increasingly interact, with information. Flow of information (“extravagant dissemination,” “ad hocracy”), Kelly argues, is everywhere and inevitable. Perhaps we will all just work in information security.

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Thursday LTNY 2020 Sessions: eDiscovery Trends

eDiscovery Daily

Today is the last day to check out the show if you’re in the New York area with a number of sessions available and over 158 exhibitors providing information on their products and services, including our company, CloudNine at booth #3000 in America’s Hall 2.

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The State of Content Management in 2020 [Expert Tips & Research]

AIIM

Few announcements in information management have been bigger than Gartner’s article heard round the world that announced the death of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) as we knew it. Content and Unstructured Information - The Known Evil vs. The Unknown Evil.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

Now information technologies and the information revolution are again transforming society. The invention of the transistor in 1947 can be considered the seed for the Information Revolution, because the transistor is at the heart of every electronic device used today! Abstract.

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Uxpected Impacts of Europe’s GDPR on US Companies Both Over and Under Stated

Info Source

Regardless of whether you are covered by GDPR, basic principles of good information governance mandate a careful look at your privacy policy and terms of use on your website. Virtually all websites employ third-party data analytic services, which often open the door to opaque gathering,mining, and trading of a person’s data in ways the website owner may not understand at all – and often conflicts with commitments made to customers and website visitors,” Cattanach says.

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

Now information technologies and the information revolution are again transforming society. These trends have “moved the needle” from traditional records and information management (RIM) practices to CS. Information Governance (IG). Information Architecture (IA).

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Jason R. Baron of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP: eDiscovery Trends 2018

eDiscovery Daily

Jason is a member of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP ’s Information Governance and eDiscovery practice and co-chair of the Information Governance Initiative. He also was a founding co-coordinator of the National Institute of Standards and Technology TREC Legal Track, a multi-year international information retrieval project devoted to evaluating search issues in a legal context. Where are mining operations? Who’s doing the mining?

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Guest Post: France’s Digital Republic Act Strengthens Privacy Safeguards

IGI

Zasio provides agile, innovative technology solutions and consulting services to help businesses of all sizes build and maintain a successful Information Governance program. The law expands the scope and authority of the 1978 French Data Protection Act and brings the country to the foreground of modernizing the legal framework of the information economy ahead of the 2018 implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).