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Cleaning Up for Records & Information Management Month
As the weather gets warmer, if you’re like me, you think about spring cleaning. In my personal life this typically means washing windows, cleaning gutters, doing the “winter/spring changeover” with my clothes, and basically getting organized. Out with the old, in with the new, right?! So, why wouldn’t we do this in our professional lives [...]
Lessons Learned from 28 years of Attending ARMA
It’s funny how memories that should be wonderful are often overshadowed by the little things that occur. I haven’t been back in Washington since 1990. I was President of ARMA International that year and a small group of us were going to the White House to meet with one of President Bush’s legislative aides regarding the Paperwork Reduction Act. Imagine just how excited we were… ARMA at the White House! As we went through security I was made aware that no, they don’t let prunes (or any food for that matter) into the White House! Now I don’t know about you, but my opinion is that prunes are a great thing to have at the ready when you travel. There were only a few in the bag so I stuck them in my purse. My colleague who accompanied me is still laughing, more than 20 years later, so you can only imagine how embarrassed I was and the ribbing I received at the time they confiscated my dried fruit. I can’t tell you what I saw in DC that week or even what we discussed in that meeting for my only memory is that of the prunes!
The First Campaign of the 21st Century: How Social Media Changed the Power Dynamics
Perhaps the greatest challenge of modern life in the second decade of the 21st Century is data and information management. While problems with basic sanitation, food, healthcare, and housing exist throughout the developing world, for most of the middle class in the developed world each day, from morning to night, involves processing a steadily increasing [...]
All I Ever Needed to Know About RIM I Learned in Kindergarten
My elementary school was a fair amount progressive. They introduced us munchkins to the basics of waste management. Reduce, reuse, recycle was catchy, memorable, and made us be conscientious citizens of the planet at home and at school. Recently I learned of the 4th R, for Recover, which represents the recovery plants where recyclable materials [...]
