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We all love our IT department don't we? They are the service arm of an organization! Something wrong? Call the IT folks, they'll fix it OR Something wrong? God knows what those IT folks are up to now!! Hmm.. it could go either way ya?

In the world of RIM it is no different! IT can play so many different roles and can be viewed as either an initiator, culprit, victim or so on and so forth. How come? Well, let's take a look into the world of IT.

IT (as…

(iPhones, iPads, and any other digital device that we rely on for "reality")

In the ARMA keynote this year, I spoke to (with the counsel and assistance of Jeff Randolph and Patrick Cunningham) tomorrow’s professional and the challenges in our profession, in business, and the evolution of our profession. This past week Marilyn Bier and I participated actively in the AIEF Strategic Planning session (which is another story of extremely positive progress BTW). Many of you know…

To provide additional value and offer greater convenience to individuals using the salary survey data, an online web-based salary calculator is available. With this new tool, RIM practitioners and other interested professionals may quickly query the calculator to determine base salary statistics for specific combinations of variables, including job title, job location within the United States, education, and years of RIM experience.

Of particular interest to RIM professionals,…

This course is intended for entry level RIM and business professionals, such as lawyers, compliance managers, and administrative, vendor, and paralegal staff.

In this age of swelling e-mail boxes and shared drives, it’s easy to see why the focus is on electronic records. But physical records are often overlooked and present as great a challenge as ever. In this course, find obvious…

ARMA International was invited to provide testimony on "Federal Electronic Records Management: A Status Report" to the U.S. House of Representatives' Information Policy, Census, and National Archives Subcommittee on June 17, 2010. The panelists reviewed the status of management of electronic records at federal

agencies, and explored ways to improve the scheduling and preservation of electronic records.

Carol Brock, CRM, represented ARMA International regarding the…

The Federal Sentencing Commission is updating their sentencing guide to include records management in the section on Effective Compliance & Ethics Program (pg 33-36). The Sentencing Guidelines are used by Federal judges in determining a sentence from drugs to hate crimes.…

I have been a member of ARMA since 1999 and ever since I entered the association and began networking, attending educational sessions, and researching, the profession has been focused on electronic records management.

The modernization of many traditional paper-based records management programs has led to numerous variations of RIM programs. Unfortunately for a very small few remaining organizations, the programs address physical records, some expand to imaged documents and…