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Commonly Overlooked Data That Should be Destroyed

Armstrong Archives

While the processes of business document storage, management, and destruction should be simple, they rarely are. If you have questions or concerns about your business’s record destruction policy, you should consider obtaining the services of a file management company.

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“The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.” Our Turf?

Brandeis Records Manager

Although we may advocate for record destruction (even this may be changing ), many or most of us don’t expend much energy on the psychology of why people want to keep things “just in case,” in order to combat it. While hoarding (compulsive or indifferent) has been at least acknowledged by the IG community (e.g.,

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Off the Record: RIM Month Special Edition– Blockchain, Record Tampering, Internet Archive: Oh My!

The Texas Record

” “Blockchain” is the latest technology buzzword mostly discussed alongside cryptocurrencies, methods of exchanging money using cryptography for security. It turns out, it has a place in records management as well– at least according to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

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Ways to Overhaul Your Records Management Programme in 2019

Archive Document Data Storage

If you need added record retention guidance, a records management consultant can offer a customised plan that includes the following: Organisation of active business files> Creation of retention databases and schedules. Records management policy implementation. Step Up Security.

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The Strategic, the Tactical, and Agile Records Management

Brandeis Records Manager

Recovery, or corrective agility, is an important part of agile records management. For example, our secure, sensitive records destruction bin footprint quickly and “successfully” grew to over 25 bins across a geographically complex campus, impossible to navigate and find by visiting vendor drivers seeking to empty them.