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Saved $$$, Increased Efficiency, Reduced Risk? Welcome to Effective RIM!
Many Records and Information Management (RIM) professionals hear the question, “Why is RIM necessary?” My short answer is that effective RIM saves your company money, makes it more efficient, and reduces its risk. I want to expand on that answer by listing some of the ways a good RIM program can work for you.
Disposition of Records
So why not just keep everything? One reason is for certain types of records, disposition is required by law. For example, in some locations, it’s mandatory to dispose of Personally Identifiable Information after a short period. Also, disposition of records reduces the quantity...
Using Information Governance to Comply with California’s New Privacy Act
Data privacy continues to be a hot-button issue. Several factors contribute to the recent flurry of global legislative activity. These include rising reports of security breaches that compromise personal information, lack of visibility into what personal information is collected, and limited control for owners to determine how information is used. The United States is no exception. Due to a lack of centralized formal legislation on data privacy, efforts to change are mounted at the industry, federal, and state levels.
In recent months, Louisiana, Vermont, and Colorado have passed amendments to their existing data breach and notification laws. The changes range...
RFID: The Tech That’ll Take the Ladders Out of the Records Center
Chances are high that you use radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology every day—yet you probably don’t know how it works or that you’re using it. Do you wave a security card over a turnstile or in front of a door when you arrive at work? Do you zoom through toll booths with an electronic pass you paid for online? Have you ever set off alarms when exiting a department store, only to find the cashier forgot to remove the security tag? Each of these examples illustrates RFID technology in action. The real question records managers should ask is if they can...
Genetic Records: Who Owns Your DNA?
In the age of information, you need to keep your personal data safe. If you ever feel like you’re handing out personal information every day, you’re probably right. Your phone calls, bank transactions, and email are all logged, after all. Even so, most people are vigilant when it comes to giving out personal information. But what about our DNA? With rapidly advancing technology that can reveal so much about our biological origins (paired with natural human curiosity), many of us are quick to submit our DNA to mainstream services such as Ancestry or 23andme. Nevertheless, how often do we think...
Katherine “Katie” Kuryla Receives the 2018 Zasio “Future Leaders in Information Management” Scholarship
BOISE, ID — To celebrate 30 years in business, Zasio Enterprises, Inc. gifted a scholarship to the San José State University Masters in Archives and Records Administration (MARA) Program in 2017. CEO Kevin Zasio presented the program with a scholarship to support the efforts of graduate students hoping to advance their education in the field.
This year, Katherine “Katie” Kuryla received the 2018 Zasio “Future Leaders in Information Management” scholarship. Katie is a MARA student with an outstanding academic record, and she’s been a student assistant since 2017. Katie is responsible for MARA’s Fall 2017 Jobs Survey and she handles the...
Z-Talks: Pre-Conference Education Sessions
Enhance your ARMA Live! 2018 Conference in Anaheim with additional, complimentary education sessions offered by Zasio. On Sunday, October 21, 2018, three of Zasio’s Information Governance (IG) experts will present information on hot topics in IG and records management. You’ll also be eligible to receive 2.5 CMP credits and 3 IGP* credits while you get up-to-speed with the latest trends in IG. We would love the opportunity to touch base with you before the conference and learn more about your IG challenges. If you are interested in attending one or all of these sessions.
Registration is currently closed for our Pre-Conference Education Sessions.
*updated 10/12/2018
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Is the Big Bucket Retention Schedule Dead in the Age of Privacy?
Big Bucket records retention schedules (RRS) are common practice in the Records and Information Management (RIM) industry. The Big Bucket approach involves grouping records together based on similar business processes and events to the greatest extent possible. Routine records are classified separately. Implementing a Big Bucket approach means that duplication and overlapping between business areas are reduced, resulting in a simplified schedule that will increase adherence and compliance. Many organizations favor this schedule method for many reasons, but mostly because it’s simple. As with any schedule design, Big Bucket schedules can have hang-ups. Lately, RIM professionals have started reviewing their...
4 Things to Consider When Looking at Software Customization
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The phrase, “There’s an app for that,” trademarked by Apple in 2010, suggests that we live in a time when we can use technology to do almost anything. It seems like there’s a software solution for everything. These useful tools seem limited only by the imagination of the developer. Currently, consumers have access to software that can meet any need you can think of, whether big or small. There’s software on the market that can manage daily operations of billion-dollar companies while others can track how many steps a person walks in a day. But even...
The Z-Files: The Weight of Waterlogged Records
You’re about to be blown away by the Z-Files featuring licensed attorneys Rick Surber, CRM and Frank Fazzio, IGP, CRM!
In this video series, we’ll conduct experiments to learn more about records management and information governance. When we looked at the best practices for handling water damage to boxes of paper records, we found that experts are split on how much a box of records actually weighs when wet. We decided to perform our own experiment to see how much weight a box of records gains when it’s soaked. And now the results are in. Tune in...
What is SaaS? A Primer On a Not-So-New Technology
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You may use the acronym SaaS, and you may know what it stands for, but do you know what it means? What it does? Do you get confused by the other ‘aaS’ terms, like IaaS and PaaS? If so, then read on! This article will explain what SaaS is and why you’ll want it.
These terms are relatively new, but the concepts behind them are not. In fact, early mainframes used the same model. Users accessed a central computer through “dumb terminals” (keyboards and monitors only). Likewise, the first World Wide Web consisted of university mainframes...
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