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I am always following the latest news and information about the records management space, and I participate in a number of social networking sites, list serves, and discussion groups. I get my news through Google alerts, watch webcasts, etc. What continues to amaze me is the amount of information available...

I wonder if the title of this post might be misleading. I don't know of anyone who talks about retention management who doesn't say that the goal is to keep information for its proper length of time, given business, regulatory and legal concerns, so that is the obvious aim of retention management...

I read a posting on the ARMA website ( E-Discovery in the Cloud = Fog? ) last week that discussed some of the challenges eDiscovery in the cloud presents and found it very timely with some recent announcements in the email archiving market. We all understand the benefits of services in the cloud "...

Microsoft SharePoint offers organizations a platform for rapid deployment of sites that can enable groups to more effectively communicate and share information. The challenge with solutions that offer such rapid impact is ensuring that some review and approval process is required to ensure maximum value...

In the last two posts I provided an overview of the two primary theoretical models used by information management professionals to help design and develop their information governance (IG) projects. I then focused on the two specific models and how they have been adopted by organizations undertaking...

With the new Administration entering the White House, we need to consider how previous Administrations managed emails and email records and how the current Administration can learn from those experiences. As we're all aware, there have been investigations, Congressional inquiries, and countless editorials...

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) require that companies be able to speak intelligently about the state of their Electronically Stored Information (ESI). They don't come right out and say how to do it. But they do require that, in the event of a lawsuit, ESI be retrieved in a timely manner...

When the legal department gets involved with important business or internal disputes, a lot of the concerns are rooted in "What is in their email?" The informal nature of email, often containing opinions, thoughts, concerns and contradictory positions can contradict corporate policy and undermine...

This appears to have been the question vexing Members of the European Parliament (MEP's), the European Union (EU) Ombudsman, Members of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee and the author of a recent report which proposes to give the public better access to EU documents. Fortunately...