You may have noticed that we haven’t published any new articles recently (blogging is hard!). It’s been a hectic fall, continuing into an equally hectic winter. If you’ve missed our articles, we apologize and hope to be back soon. If you do enjoy our articles and newsletters, please contact us or leave a comment here. […]
Chucking Daisies: Ten Rules for Taking Control of Your Organization’s Digital Debris (published by ARMA International in hard copy and PDF download) is a useful, inexpensive resource for educating IT, legal, risk and other professionals and line of business managers about fundamental R/IM principles and the imperative for any organization to effectively manage its ever-increasing volume of digital information. In just over 50 pages, the […]
I passed! I’m an IGP for the next 3 years. A list of the 56 inaugural IGPs is available here. Not sure yet what the recertification requirements will be since ARMA International is still finalizing them but see that the ‘My Certification’ tab in my online ARMA profile now shows a requirement for 25 hours with a CE cycle end date of December 31, 2013. […]
As a consultant and educator, I’m often asked about information management certifications so I’ve been watching the development of the Information Governance Professional (IGP) certification by ARMA International (ARMA) with interest. According to ARMA, a certified Information Governance Professional “creates and oversees programs to govern the information assets of the enterprise. The IGP partners with the business to facilitate […]
Information management practitioners are familiar with metadata (or data about data) in the context of records. It is one of many tools that can be used to identify and categorize information, thus making it easier and faster to find in the future. Records metadata is a useful tool which doesn’t get a lot of attention. But metadata […]
(Please note: Some cartoons originally posted in this article caused some technical difficulties, so they have been temporarily removed and replaced with links. Hopefully we will be able to restore the original images soon.) I’m always on the look out for humourous cartoons to use in training materials and the Dilbert comic strip by Scott […]