DSF '18 Issues Call for Speakers

Seems to be the day for it. The Document Strategy Forum has also issued their call for speakers for DSF '18, scheduled for May 21-23 in Boston, MA. Deadline for submissions is Oct 9, 2017; additional details and the submission form are available at https://www.documentstrategyforum.com/page/1310155/call-for-speakers.

MER18 Issues Call for Presenters

The Managing Electronic Records (MER) Annual Conference has opened its call for proposals to speak at the MER18 Conference, scheduled for May 6-9, 2018 in Chicago, IL. Deadline submission is November 1, 2017. Additional details about what they are looking for, and the submission form, can be found at https://www.merconference.com/call-for-presenters.

FCW: National Archives tilts toward paperless future. 

Direct link to the draft FY18-FY22 strategic plan.

Lane Severson: Digital Transformation Shakes Up ECM Priorities

Rachel Ray's Bacon Apple Crumble Pie

Because I haven't blogged about bacon in a while.

https://www.rachaelraymag.com/recipe/bacon-crumble-apple-pie

I have made this recipe a couple of times and...yeah. Everyone thinks "ew, bacon and apple pie". I say, "what doesn't bacon make better?" Especially if you used applewood-smoked bacon....

You could make it even more bacon-y by replacing the crumble topping with a bacon weave and putting the cheddar cheese on the crust first, then the apple filling, then the weave.

Laurence Hart: Governance Propels the Digital Workplace Forward. Laurence's post is in response to Martyn Perks' post, Goodbye Governance, We Don't Need You Anymore.

It should come as no surprise that I'm much closer to Laurence's position than Martyn's, but it's not reflexive. Rather, I found Martyn's post to be logically inconsistent. I'd posit that what he wants is not a lack of governance, but governance provided in a way that, as Laurence notes, moves the organization forward. In other words, he wants smart governance that aligns to business goals and objectives rather than "a set of deadweight policies that inhibit how staff work." But smart governance doesn't mean no governance; rather, it means balancing what the organization needs to do to meet its needs, including legal and regulatory requirements, with a governance framework that works for employees.

To riff off of Laurence's example, cooking requires a governance framework and lots of governance elements in it:

• Appropriate temperatures for storing and cooking food, which differ based on the type of food and the ingredients used
• Appropriate balancing between time and temperature - for example, you can't bake bread at 250 degrees, and you can't cook an edible brisket at 500 degrees
• Proportional use of ingredients - baking is chemistry as much as it is art, and even a simple salad dressing works best at certain proportions of acid to oil. 

And we could probably add many more. And there is some flexibility in most cooking - who's to say you can't put bacon in an apple pie? But if you stray too far from the practices espoused in the cooking (governance) framework, you end up having to deal with unexpected outcomes or even unintended consequences. So too with information governance in the enterprise. 

Activity 8/20: 3.0 mile walk with 10# weight vest, 55 min.

Activity 8/19: 2.6 mile walk with 10# weight vest, 45 min.

AIIM opens call for speakers for AIIM18

AIIM has opened the call for speakers for the AIIM18 conference, scheduled for April 10-13, 2018 in San Antonio, TX. As in previous years, speakers must be end users; while vendors are allowed to participate, those speaking spots are only available as part of a sponsorship package.

Speakers will receive a complimentary conference registration, but their travel and any additional registration items such as preconference workshops are not included and are at their own expense.

Deadline for submissions is September 29th. More details: http://www.aiimconference.com/page/1304496/call-for-speakers. The submission form: https://gzclelland.wufoo.com/forms/zegego50ck762x/

AIIM becomes IAPP Training Provider

I am pleased to announce that AIIM and IAPP have entered into a partnership agreement. As part of this agreement, AIIM will teach IAPP certification prep courses including the CIPP/US, CIPM, and CIPT. The inaugural AIIM-taught CIPP/US course is scheduled for October 3-4, 2017 at AIIM HQ in Silver Spring, MD and I will be teaching that course. More details on that course are available at http://www.aiim.org/Home/Education-Section/Public-Classes/2017-October-IAPP-SS.

Mary Mack: What Must You Preserve - and When? - Hold On Series, Part 2

Part 1, by Matthew Verga, is available at https://www.xactdatadiscovery.com/articles/a-legal-hold-is-just-a-letter-what-could-go-wrong-hold-on-series-part-1/

AIIM18 Registration Now Open

AIIM has just announced that registration for the AIIM18 conference, scheduled for April 10-13, 2018 in San Antonio, TX, is now available. More details are available at http://www.aiimconference.com/.

Gerald C. Kane, MITSloan Management Review: 'Digital Transformation' Is A Misnomer

What are your go-to sources for all things RM?

Title says it all. Where do you go to stay abreast of current issues, emerging issues, changes in tech, etc. in records/info management? Twitter? RECMGMT-L? Somewhere else? I ask selfishly but also because I teach a lot of RM/IM/IG stuff and I always want to share these types of resources with attendees. Comment here, sent me an email, Tweet me.

Archives Express: NARA Announces Release of Universal Electronic Records Management Requirements

The InfoGovCon17 Awards are now open for voting: http://infogovcon.com/awards/vote-infogov-expert-of-the-year

Miles Kehoe: Enterprise Search: The Red-Headed Stepchild of the Workplace

H/T: Martin White

Irving Wladawsky-Berger: Is Blockchain Ready to Cross the Chasm? Lessons from the Internet

Jason Bloomburg, Forbes: Eight Reasons To Be Skeptical About Blockchain

H/T: Don Lueders

Craig Ball: Custodian-Directed Preservation of iPhone Content: Simple. Scalable. Proportional. Interesting, but not sure I agree - the comments (including mine I hope!) are interesting as well.

My contribution: how is using an iPhone backup for preservation any different from e.g. using a PC or system backup for preservation? And there is significant case law in the US that reflects on that approach through the lenses of cost shifting, accessibility of the underlying information, etc.

Adobe: Flash & The Future of Interactive Content Short version: Flash is gone as of 2020.

Lee Dallas: How AI Will Kill Unstructured Content

RT: Delaware allows corporations to use blockchain to create & maintain transaction records

H/T: Sheri Nystedt

Ryan Duguid @ Nintex: Low Code and the 'Citizen Developer': Too Good To Be True?

AIIM's own Felicia Dillard: Why the CIP is Not Just For Information Pros: An Accountant's Story

Marko Sillanpää: Hello, Managing Documents Still Matters

Gregory Zelfond: 4 ways to configure SharePoint Document Library and organize documents

Andrezza Falk: Connecting the IM-Business Dots

Activity 7/12: Walking desk, 2.4-2.7 mph, 9% incline, 1:01, 2.7 miles

Gregory Zelfond: 10 Practical Tips to Boost SharePoint User Adoption

Kevin Parker: Content Cleanup and Migration Planning

Bill Tolson: Are Pigs Starting to Fly? (re: automating information governance)

Peggy Winton: In Pursuit of the CIP: why did I wait so long?

Activity 7/9: Walking desk, 2.4-3.0 mph, 9% incline, 1:07, 2.83 miles

Activity 7/8: 5.15 mile walk, average 25-min mile pace

Activity 7/7: Walking desk, 2.5 mph, 9% incline, 1:12, 3.0 miles

Laurence Hart: You Can't Talk Future of ECM Without Cloud Content Services - a response to Joe Shepley's post.

Joe Shepley: Stop Worrying About ECM Vendors: It's All About Your Approach

NYTimes: As Elites Switch to Texting, Watchdogs Fear Loss of Transparency. More about encrypted/self-destructing apps like Signal, but still a good story that should be addressed regardless of which "side" is doing it.

H/T: Don Lueders

Jed Cawthorne, for CMSWire: Potayto, Potahto, We All Agree on Strategy

Activity 7/6: Walking desk, 2.4 mph, 9% incline, 1:23, 3.32 miles

NextGen: 9 Tips on Asking for Training Dollars (When Budgets are Tight)

Activity 7/5: Walking desk, 2.4 mph, 9% incline, 57 min, 2.3 miles

Activity 7/4: Walking desk, 2.4 mph, 9% incline, 1:10, 2.81 miles

Activity 6/23: Walking desk, 2.3 mph, 9% incline, 1:40, 3.75 miles

Activity 6/13: Walking desk, 2.3 mph, 9% incline, 1:40, 3.75 miles

John Mancini: ECM Industry Labels Make Better Verbs than Nouns

George Parapadakis: Implementing GDPR: From uncertainty to actual solutions

Joe Shepley: Forrester's ECM Wave Falls Flat

George Parapadakis: The schizophrenic world of overlapping software portfolios