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« R.I.M. – A Profession or an Industry? | Home | ARMA Taps Partners for Awareness & Success »

First Responders for Records and Information Management

By Doug Allen, CRM, CDIA+ | January 29, 2008

Increased use of the web now means that we have access to and see much more information much more quickly than in the past. While there is a good deal of valuable information “out there”, there is also a substantial amount of misinformation or information that is not sufficiently complete or accurate. Records and Information Managers are all too often confronted with Senior Managers or Executives who want “something done now,” and who often come armed with such limited or inaccurate information.

There are a few who have taken an active roll in combating misinformation and who are now seeking to ensure that more complete information is available to those who might read IT oriented articles, management related articles or other “epistles” that are visible on the web. For lack of better phrasing, I refer to those who combat such misinformation as “first responders” for Records and Information Management (R.I.M.).

Below are a few examples to which I point that showing some of the information that we see on a daily basis, and the comments made by those who seek to promote our profession.

This first article focuses on IT organizations staffing efforts to meet the challenge of Records and Information Management. Hopefully, you will have a chance to read not only the article, but the subsequent comments:

Read the article here

One of the better responses came from Larry Medina, in a Computerworld blog.

Then in a subsequent set of two different columns and comments, you will see a discussion about the wisdom of getting rid of paper merely by scanning all of the documents that might be contained in a records center. I recommend that you test the links to track back from this column, to the original column, and then read through both the column and through the comments.

There have been a number of other examples over the past few months, but it’s good to see Records and Information Managers responding to articles and columns that appear. It would be terrific to see even more of us responding to what we read on the web.

I’d like to tip my hat to those who have drawn me into this area, include: Patrick Cunningham, CRM, Peter Kurilecz , CRM, CA and Larry Medina. These three professionals are doing great work on behalf of many of us today.

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