Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars - May 1-31, 2023

Here are the webinars and local events I'm aware of for May 1-31, 2023. I don't have anything to do with them from a planning perspective, so please reach out to the individual event producers with any questions. I also don't get paid or get anything out of this other than the satisfaction of helping get the word out.  

Special note: 13 ARMA chapters are hosting the Spring Seminar Mania III 2023, which started on April 4 and goes through May 19. Each individual meeting is listed in the events listing below, but you can find the overview and list of all the meetings in one place at https://armamilwaukee.org/spring-seminar-mania-2023/.

5/2/2023 - ARMA Chicago, How Do Records/Information Managers Keep Up In A World That Keeps Transitioning?

5/2/2023 - ARMA Wyoming, 2023 Annual Spring Seminar

5/2/2023 - AIIM+, Records Management Coffee & Conversation, The Role of Records Managers in Privacy (members only)

5/2/2023 - MER Sapient and Contoural, Seven Stages of Privacy Program Development from Denial Through Frustration and Getting to Compliant Execution 

5/3/2023 - ARMA Central Illinois, What's Up with WhatsApp? 

5/3/2023 - ARMA Baton Rouge/Lafayette, You Can't Manage (or Protect) What You Don't Know 

5/3/2023 - AIIM and ZIA, Disruptive Innovation – How to Leverage Enterprise Data and Automation

5/3/2023 - IAPP, Report on responsible AI and privacy governance – discussion of findings 

5/4/2023 - ARMA Greater Seattle, May the Fourth be With You: Giving Finance the Force to Fund Your Programs

5/4/2023 - ARMA Triangle, State of the Triangle Chapter Meeting

5/4/2023 - Contoural, Advanced Class 4: Behavior Change Management for Creating a Compliant Culture

5/4/2023 - MER Sapient and Gimmal, Proactively Protecting Your Sensitive Data for a Hybrid Workforce  

5/4/2023 - RIMPA and Grace, How to Tackle Your Dark Data

5/4/2023 - NAGARA and Preservica, Asset Management, the Data Lifecycle, and Risk Management

5/6/2023 - ARMA Vancouver, Spring Social

5/9/2023 - ARMA Greater Los Angeles, Trends in Privacy, Cyber, and eDiscovery: What Every Records Manager Needs to Know

5/9/2023 - ARMA Northeast Ohio, How to Align Your Digital Mail Workflow with Information Governance and Security Best Practices

5/9/2023 - ARMA Dallas, Blackmon Mooring & BMS Cat Tour

5/9/2023 - AIIM+, Meeting the Challenge: M365 (members only)

5/9/2023 - Box, Cloud Content Summit: The Content Revolution

5/9/2023 - IAPP and Transcend, Final Countdown: How to address 5 new CPRA obligations before 1 July (members only)

5/9-11/2023 - ARMA Saskatchewan, 2023 Conference: Overcoming the Information Avalanche

5/10/2023 - ARMA Kentucky, Records Management in Kentucky's Largest Public School District. Email Lydia McGahee at lydia.mcgahee@texasroadhouse.com for more information or to register.

5/10/2023 - ARMA San Diego, Communicate Easier Using the DISC Personality Profiles

5/10/2023 - ARMA Metro Maryland, Exploring the RIM Program for Animal and Veterinary Records at the Saint Louis Zoo

5/10/2023 - ARMA Chattanooga, Chapter Year-End Review. Send an email to Scotty Swafford at scotty_swafford@bcbst.com for a link to attend.

5/10-11/2023 - RIMPA Global, Canberra Symposium: Imagining the IM Future Beyond Tomorrow

5/11/2023 - ARMA Alaska, How Privacy Laws Impact Your Retention Schedule

5/11/2023 - IAPP and BigID, The building blocks for managing privacy risks at Square Enix (members only)

5/15/2023 - ARMA Madison, Modern Recordkeeping with Microsoft Purview

5/16/2023 - ARMA Golden State, ChatGPT: Legal Concerns and Its Impact on IG Best Practices

5/16/2023 - ARMA Twin Cities, Managing eDiscovery and Legal Holds

5/16/2023 - ARMA Metro NYC-LI, CONFIRM.NYC 2023

5/16/2023 - ARMA Mile High Denver, How to Privacy-Enable Your Records Retention Schedule to Avoid Conflict

5/16/2023 - ARMA Jacksonville, The New Holistic Approach to Records Management

5/16/2023 - ARMA Central Missouri, Contract and Vendor Management - How MEM Has Updated Their Processes

5/16/2023 - ARMA Florida Gulf Coast, The Convergence of Information Governance, Data Privacy & E-Discovery

5/16/2023 - ARMA San Antonio, What's Happening at Port San Antonio

5/16/2023 - LegalRM, ILTA Masterclass: Using RFID to keep track of original & high value documents

5/17/2023 - ARMA St. Louis, Documenting Our Family Histories: How and Why Genealogists Rely on Archival Records & Finding Your Ancestors at the Library & Research Center

5/17/2023 - ARMA Nebraska, Media Mystery - Paper or Electronic? 

5/17/2023 - Greater Washington DC Chapter of ARMA, TCG Process - Learn the latest on IDP and Document Process Automation

5/17/2023 - Meru Data, Privacy Engineering: Moving from legal requirements to implementation

5/17/2023 - AIIM and Cadence Solutions, Records Management Out-of-the-Box with M365 – Myth or Reality

5/17/2023 - Access, Understanding the Relationship between Artificial Intelligence and Records Management

5/18/2023 - ARMA Detroit, Digital Preservation: Securing Your Data

5/18/2023 - ARMA Arizona, Panel Discussion and Awards Ceremony

5/18/2023 - ARMA Metro NYC-LI, How to Prepare for Data Governance 2.0

5/18/2023 - ARMA Columbus, It's All About the People! Mini Spring Seminar

5/18/2023 - ARMA, IG Policies: What is Good Content? (members only)

5/18/2023 - NAGARA and JustFOIA, Bring Your Records Request Process from Chaos to Order

5/19/2023 - ARMA Palm Beach Treasure Coast, Who's on First? Handling Public Records Requests for Vendor/Contractor Records

5/24/2023 - IAPP and OneTrust, Embedding privacy by design to enforce responsible use of data (members only)

5/24/2023 - Information Governance World Magazine, Information Risk & Governance Summit

5/25/2023 - InfoAdvocates, eDiscovery Next

5/25/2023 - Iron Mountain, Data, Records, and Compliance, Oh My! 

5/25/2023 - ACMP, Change with the Sanders Transformational Change Model (members only)

5/25/2023 - Contoural, How to Finally Get Your Company to Care about Over Retention

5/30/2023 - IAPP and Exterro, The art of consent: Navigating the compliance trifecta (members only)

5/31/2023 - Austin ARMA, Moving Right Along: The IG Maturity Model and Your Firm

5/31/2023 - AIIM, Iron Mountain, and Amazon Web Services, How to Procure Faster and Accelerate Technology Adoption through Cloud Marketplaces  

If you know of a webinar or other local/regional event during this period that is focused on IM, IG, RM, etc. that's not listed, let me know here or at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com. Vendors, other associations, consultants, etc. all welcome as long as the event is educational and not completely self-serving, e.g., no demos. No charge to list or to access the list. 

If you're looking for a speaker, I'm available to speak at your chapter or event. For more details, see https://informata.blogspot.com/2022/06/im-available-to-speak-at-your-meeting.html; this post also lists a few other speakers who are available and quite good. I published a separate blog post about how to find speakers and what to look for at https://informata.blogspot.com/2022/06/finding-speakers-for-your-event-part-1.html. 

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars - April 16 - May 15, 2023

Here are the webinars and local events I'm aware of for April 16 - May 15, 2023. I don't have anything to do with them from a planning perspective, so please reach out to the individual event producers with any questions. I also don't get paid or get anything out of this other than the satisfaction of helping get the word out.  

Special note: 13 ARMA chapters are hosting the Spring Seminar Mania III 2023, which started on April 4 and goes through May 19. Each individual meeting is listed in the events listing below, but you can find the overview and list of all the meetings in one place at https://armamilwaukee.org/spring-seminar-mania-2023/.

4/17/2023 - RIMPA Global, Adelaide: Sharing Knowledge, Empowering Growth Seminar

4/18/2023 - MER Sapient and OpenText, Applying AI to Organize and Manage your Repositories   

4/18/2023 - ARMA Mile High Denver, Bringing the Basics Back Into Focus Spring Seminar

4/18/2023 - ARMA Florida Gulf Coast, Cloud Computing Concerns

4/18/2023 - ARMA San Antonio, The 80’s Called – They Want Their Records Steering Committee Back. A New Approach to Gaining Management Support

4/18/2023 - Atlanta ARMA, Effective Governance in the Cloud - Defensible Strategies

4/18/2023 - ARMA Central Missouri, Iron Mountain Records Facility Tour. Contact Joann Looten at lootenje@umsystem.edu to register.

4/18-19/2023 - ARMA Houston Spring Conference

4/19/2023 - ARMA St. Louis, A Day in the Life of the Missouri Botanical Garden's Archivist

4/19/2023 - ARMA Pittsburgh, Evolution or Revolution? Keeping Up with Rapid Changes in our Information Governance World

4/19/2023 - IMCanadaConnect, The Ethics of Data Privacy

4/19/2023 - RIMPA Global and Iron Mountain, Smarter, Not Harder: Clean Up Your Legacy Paper Records

4/19/2023 - SCIE ARMA, The New Holistic Approach to Records Management

4/19/2023 - ARMA Nebraska Spring Seminar, An Investigation into Value

4/19/2023 - AIIM Florida, Digital Transformation made easy with Thin Scanning Solutions

4/19/2023 - AIIM and Microsoft, Is Content AI a Game Changer?

4/20/2023 - ARMA New England, Differentiating Data Governance and Information Governance

4/20/2023 - ARMA Vancouver, Information Governance in the era of Decentralization

4/20/2023 - ARMA Arizona, A New Doctrine for Warfare: Convergence of Disinformation, Conventional, and Cyber Warfare Strategy and how it impacts Security Readiness in the U.S.

4/20/2023 - ARMA Utah, State Archives Tour with Ken Williams

4/20/2023 - ARMA, Building a RIM Program from Scratch Webinar Series, Part 3 of 4 (members only)

4/20/2023 - MER Sapient and EnCompaaS, Applying Guilt by Association — How AI is Transforming Information Governance

4/20/2023 - Zasio, Retention Schedules vs Record Series: What's the Difference?

4/21/2023 - ARMA New Brunswick, Ask the Records Manager

4/24/2023 - CIGOA, Information Governance Dinner Discussion - New Orleans 

4/24-27/2023 - ARMA Liberty Bell, Chapter Spring Seminar Sessions 

4/25/2023 - North Dakota ARMA, Spring Seminar

4/26/2023 - Michigan ARMA Spring Seminar 2023 - Microsoft 365

4/26/2023 - Austin ARMA, Vital Records & Disaster Planning

4/26/2023 - ARMA Hawai'i, "Missing Bytes": The Critical Role of Information Governance in the SDLC Process

4/27/2023 - ARMA New Jersey, Navigating the Pathways, Understanding the RIM/IG Professional Certification Landscape

4/27/2023 - Boise Valley ARMA, Your Company Needs a Data & Information Governance Program - How to Build It

4/27/2023 - ARMA, Building a RIM Program from Scratch Webinar Series, Part 4 of 4: RIM Audits (members only)

4/27/2023 - Contoural, IG Advanced Class #3, Automating Compliance Policies with Technology

4/27/2023 - RIMPA Global, Hobart: Adding Value Through Strategic Directions

4/27/2023 - IAPP and DataGrail, Privacy trends with DataGrail (members only)

4/28/2023 - ARMA Vancouver Island and AACB, Joint Conference: Access Ability

4/28/2023 - RIMPA Global, Melbourne Roadshow: Connecting Locally

5/2/2023 - ARMA Chicago, How Do Records/Information Managers Keep Up In A World That Keeps Transitioning?

5/2/2023 - ARMA Wyoming, 2023 Annual Spring Seminar

5/2/2023 - AIIM+, Records Management Coffee & Conversation, The Role of Records Managers in Privacy (members only)

5/2/2023 - MER Sapient and Contoural, Seven Stages of Privacy Program Development from Denial Through Frustration and Getting to Compliant Execution 

5/3/2023 - ARMA Central Illinois, What's Up with WhatsApp? 

5/3/2023 - ARMA Baton Rouge/Lafayette, You Can't Manage (or Protect) What You Don't Know 

5/3/2023 - AIIM and ZIA, Disruptive Innovation – How to Leverage Enterprise Data and Automation

5/3/2023 - IAPP, Report on responsible AI and privacy governance – discussion of findings

5/4/2023 - ARMA Triangle, State of the Triangle Chapter Meeting

5/4/2023 - Contoural, Advanced Class 4: Behavior Change Management for Creating a Compliant Culture

5/4/2023 - MER Sapient and Gimmal, Proactively Protecting Your Sensitive Data for a Hybrid Workforce  

5/9/2023 - ARMA Greater Los Angeles, Trends in Privacy, Cyber, and eDiscovery: What Every Records Manager Needs to Know

5/9/2023 - ARMA Northeast Ohio, How to Align Your Digital Mail Workflow with Information Governance and Security Best Practices

5/9/2023 - ARMA Dallas, Blackmon Mooring & BMS Cat Tour

5/9/2023 - AIIM+, Meeting the Challenge: M365 (members only)

5/9/2023 - Box, Cloud Content Summit: The Content Revolution

5/9-11/2023 - ARMA Saskatchewan, 2023 Conference: Overcoming the Information Avalanche

5/10/2023 - ARMA Kentucky, Records Management in Kentucky's Largest Public School District. Email Lydia McGahee at lydia.mcgahee@texasroadhouse.com for more information or to register.

5/10/2023 - ARMA San Diego, Communicate Easier Using the DISC Personality Profiles

5/10/2023 - ARMA Metro Maryland, Exploring the RIM Program for Animal and Veterinary Records at the Saint Louis Zoo

5/10/2023 - ARMA Chattanooga, Chapter Year-End Review. Send an email to Scotty Swafford at scotty_swafford@bcbst.com for a link to attend.

5/10-11/2023 - RIMPA Global, Canberra Symposium: Imagining the IM Future Beyond Tomorrow

5/11/2023 - ARMA Alaska, How Privacy Laws Impact Your Retention Schedule

5/15/2023 - ARMA Madison, Modern Recordkeeping with Microsoft Purview

If you know of a webinar or other local/regional event during this period that is focused on IM, IG, RM, etc. that's not listed, let me know here or at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com. 

If you're looking for a speaker, I'm available to speak at your chapter or event. For more details, see 

https://informata.blogspot.com/2022/06/im-available-to-speak-at-your-meeting.html; this post also lists a few other speakers who are available and quite good. I published a separate blog post about how to find speakers and what to look for at https://informata.blogspot.com/2022/06/finding-speakers-for-your-event-part-1.html.

Celebrating RIM Month 2023

There has been a lot of discussion the last couple of months about how to celebrate Records and Information Management (RIM) Month. I find myself in the fortunate position of working with a client who “gets it” and wants to leverage campaigns like RIM Month and Data Privacy Week (January) to bring awareness to effective RIM and information governance practices.

With their permission, I’m sharing a high-level look at what we’re doing this month. Every day there’s something, and every week there’s a larger activity. Here’s what this looks like.

Ongoing/every day

We’re leveraging ARMA’s RIM Month resources – the RIM month image for email signatures and the RIM posters. We also turned the image into a Teams/Zoom background and are encouraging the core IG team and the broader community of records coordinators to use them this month.

The records coordinators have their own Teams channel, and we’re posting daily recordkeeping tips. Some of these are more business-focused, while others deal directly with personal recordkeeping. For example, on April 17, Tax Day in the U.S., we’ll post a reminder that U.S. taxpayers don’t need to keep their tax returns for forever – three years is generally what the IRS recommends (but we also tell them to consult their accountant if they have one).

Coffee talks and/or office hours. These are less-formal opportunities for staff to exchange information (coffee talks) or ask questions (office hours) on all things RIM. We’re scheduling these weekly during RIM Month and then monthly after that.

Weekly Special Events

• Scavenger Hunt. To set this up, determine the number of items to include – we used 10. All items in the hunt are related to RM. In our case, we took existing documents such as the RIM policy, other guidance documents, and even events and news stories and posted codes, e.g., RIMMONTH2023, that could be entered into a form. Entrants who complete the hunt get entered into a drawing for a prize – maybe a good cross-cut shredder?
• Lunch & Learn. We decided to focus on personal recordkeeping as a way to make RM more directly applicable to attendees. We’ll talk about how long to keep personal records and documents, how to get rid of them appropriately, and some tips for improving email management.
• Shred Day. This is pretty self-explanatory; we’re timing it to take place after Tax Day and encouraging folks to bring in their old files to be securely destroyed.
• RM Jeopardy. There are a few sites that will let you set up a Jeopardy-style game pretty easily; there are also PowerPoint templates and instructions for doing it that way. The point is to have some fun and provide some RM trivia tidbits, both general and specific to the organization.  

Other Possibilities

These are things that I saw others share, but which we decided not to do because we’re already doing so much.

• Records management quiz. There are any number of free quiz-makers out there; good questions might come from the RIM policy, training videos, RIM month resources, etc. Maybe have a small prize for the winner or for all participants.
• RM Tips & Tricks Challenge. The suggestion here was to submit a list of your top three tips, tricks, or tools for managing your information better. The suggestions would then be consolidated and made available as a resource.
• RM Bingo. You could do something similar to the scavenger hunt; you could also leverage your daily RM tips. Again, lots of bingo card generators out there.
• Crossword puzzle using RM terms. Lots of crossword generators available online too.
• Educational videos. These don’t have to be that long, and in the age of YouTube and TikTok, they don’t have to be that polished. Take the questions you’re most frequently asked and turn them into 30 seconds- to 1-minute long videos.
• Branded RM “swag” – mugs, travel mugs, coasters, etc. This does take more prior planning and budget, but it’s not outrageously expensive depending on which direction you take it.
• Cleanup days. There are so many ways to take this:
• Clean up your email
• Clean up your desk
• Clean up your personal paper documents and records
• Clean up your OneDrive, Box, Dropbox, or whatever other less-formal platform(s) you use for sharing and collaborating

You could even do a different one every week. The key here is not just to announce it – but give your employees tips and guidance on how to do it effectively. This is also an opportunity to remind them to check with RM if they have questions.

Credit Where Due

I want to thank Ryan Zilm in particular for a number of insightful suggestions, including a Governance Carnival with carnival-style games, and a RIM Escape Room. As he noted in the ARMA Community, “Have many more ideas to share if you like. This stuff excites me!!” He has given me permission to share his email if you have questions – but be aware, he does have a day job, so please be patient! You can reach Ryan at ryanmzilm@gmail.com. 

Special thanks to the additional people who shared ideas in various forums including the ARMA Community and the AIIM Community:

• Sharon Burnett
• Anne Cornish
• Gretchen Bauman
• Beth Thomes
• Kristen Nemoede
• Randi Mauro
• Elizabeth Hansen
• Marissa Clevenger
• John Daly
• Donda Young

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars - April 1 - 30, 2023

Here are the webinars and local events I'm aware of for April 1 - 30, 2023. I don't have anything to do with them from a planning perspective, so please reach out to the individual event producers with any questions. I also don't get paid or get anything out of this other than the satisfaction of helping get the word out.  

Special note: 13 ARMA chapters are hosting the Spring Seminar Mania III 2023, spanning April 4 - May 19. Each individual meeting is listed in the events listing below, but you can find the overview and list of all the meetings in one place at https://armamilwaukee.org/spring-seminar-mania-2023/.

4/3/2023 - IRMS, Skills Matrix Overview

4/4/2023 - MER Sapient and Contoural, Who Should Own Records Management?

4/4/2023 - ARMA Madison, Career Crossroads and Opportunities

4/4/2023 - AIIM+, Records Managers Coffee & Conversations - Attaching an ROI to Your Project (members only)

4/4/2023 - OneTrust, Marketing Leaders Panel: How to Enforce Responsible Use of Data

4/5/2023 - ARMA Greater Kansas City, Records Management Education for Target Audiences

4/5/2023 - ARMA Baton Rouge/Lafayette, Salary Negotiation

4/5/2023 - ARMA Metro Maryland, 5 Best Practices In Records Management

4/5/2023 - AIIM, Helux, and Microsoft, Moving from Chaos to Knowledge – Four Steps to Intelligent Information Management

4/5/2023 - Zasio, Virtual Coffee with Consulting: What On Earth Is Going On With ChatGPT? (And What Does It Have To Do With IG?)

4/6/2023 - ARMA Triangle, The AI-Enabled Information Professional: Employing AI to Manage Digital Content

4/6/2023 - ARMA Upstate NY, Microsoft 365 and Records Management

4/6/2023 - AIIM Florida, Unlock the Power of Health Information Management: Acquire, Analyze, and Protect Data with Our Guidance

4/6/2023 - NAGARA, Saint Louis Zoo Case Study: Our Journey & Successful Transition to an EDMS for Animal & Veterinary Records

4/6/2023 - ARMA, Building a RIM Program From Scratch, Part 1 of 4: Strategic and Long-Range Planning for a RIM Program (members only)

4/6/2023 - OneTrust, USA Biometric Laws: Key Considerations and Emerging Trends

4/6/2023 - AIIM+, Meeting the Challenge - Step into the World of AI in the M365 Environment (members only)

4/11/2023 - ARMA Chicago, Learning at the Law Firm

4/11/2023 - ARMA Dallas, Keeping it Fresh Spring Seminar

4/11/2023 - Twin Cities ARMA, Spring Conference

4/11/2023 - Greater Chattanooga Chapter of ARMA, M365 Retention Policies. Contact Scotty Swafford at Scotty_Swafford@bcbst.com to register. 

4/11/2023 - ARMA Northeast Ohio, How to Align Your Digital Mail Workflow with IG & Security Best Practices. Contact Eileen Cook, eileencook@westfield-Bank.com to have a meeting invitation forwarded to you.

4/11/2023 - Meru Data, Legal and Regulatory developments in Adtech Space around Privacy

4/11/2023 - AIIM+, Meeting the Challenge: Talk M365 With Me (members only)

4/12/2023 - ARMA Milwaukee, Active Recovery for Unavoidable Stress - High Performance Under Pressure

4/12/2023 - ARMA Metro Maryland, 5 Best Practices in Records Management

4/12/2023 - AIIM True North, What are the top five determinants for a successful digital transformation?

4/12/2023 - IRMS, Skills Matrix Overview

4/12/2023 - Contoural, IG Advanced Class #2, Creating Compliant and Executable Policies and Getting Consensus with the Business

4/13/2023 - ARMA Western Michigan, Building and Sustaining Your RIM Program with a RIM Playbook. To register, email armawestmi@gmail.com. 

4/13/2023 - ARMA Vancouver, "Forever or Five Years": RecordKeeping and Human Thriving

4/13/2023 - ARMA, Building a RIM Program from Scratch Webinar Series, Part 2 of 4 (members only)

4/18/2023 - MER Sapient and OpenText Microfocus, Applying AI to Organize and Manage your Repositories   

4/18/2023 - ARMA Metro NYC-LI, CONFIRM.NYC

4/18/2023 - ARMA Mile High Denver, Bringing the Basics Back Into Focus Spring Seminar

4/18/2023 - ARMA Florida Gulf Coast, Cloud Computing Concerns

4/18/2023 - ARMA San Antonio, The 80’s Called – They Want Their Records Steering Committee Back. A New Approach to Gaining Management Support

4/18-19/2023 - ARMA Houston, Spring Conference

4/19/2023 - ARMA St. Louis, A Day in the Life of the Missouri Botanical Garden's Archivist

4/19/2023 - RIMPA Global and Iron Mountain, Smarter, Not Harder: Clean Up Your Legacy Paper Records

4/19/2023 - SCIE ARMA, The New Holistic Approach to Records Management

4/19/2023 - IMCanadaConnect, The Ethics of Data Privacy

4/19/2023 - ARMA Nebraska Spring Seminar, An Investigation into Value

4/20/2023 - ARMA New England, Differentiating Data Governance and Information Governance

4/20/2023 - ARMA Arizona April Chapter Meeting

4/20/2023 - ARMA, Building a RIM Program from Scratch Webinar Series, Part 3 of 4 (members only)

4/24/2023 CIGOA, Information Governance Dinner Discussion - New Orleans 

4/24-27/2023, ARMA Liberty Bell, Spring Seminar Sessions

4/25/2023 - North Dakota ARMA, Spring Seminar

4/26/2023 - Michigan ARMA, Spring Seminar 2023 - Microsoft 365

4/26/2023 - Austin ARMA, Vital Records & Disaster Planning

4/27/2023 - ARMA New Jersey, Navigating the Pathways, Understanding the RIM/IG Professional Certification Landscape

4/27/2023 - ARMA, Building a RIM Program from Scratch Webinar Series, Part 4 of 4: RIM Audits (members only)

4/27/2023 - Contoural, IG Advanced Class #3, Automating Compliance Policies with Technology

4/28/2023 - ARMA Vancouver Island and AACB Joint Conference: Access Ability

If you know of a webinar or other local/regional event during this period that is focused on IM, IG, RM, etc. that's not listed, let me know here or at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com. 

If you're looking for a speaker, I'm available to speak at your chapter or event. For more details, see https://informata.blogspot.com/2022/06/im-available-to-speak-at-your-meeting.html; this post also lists a few other speakers who are available and quite good. I published a separate blog post about how to find speakers and what to look for at https://informata.blogspot.com/2022/06/finding-speakers-for-your-event-part-1.html. 

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars - March 16 - April 15, 2023

Here are the webinars and local events I'm aware of for March 16 - April 15, 2023. I don't have anything to do with them from a planning perspective, so please reach out to the individual event producers with any questions. I also don't get paid or get anything out of this other than the satisfaction of helping get the word out.  

3/16/2023 - ARMA Western Michigan and ARMA Detroit - Taking Flight- Leveraging ARMA’s Information Governance Maturity Model. Contact Aleesa Hounshell at armawestmi@gmail.com for more information or to register.

3/16/2023 - IAPP, Global Privacy Laws Virtual Roundtable: 16 March 2023

3/16/2023 - ARMA Utah, Spring Seminar, Investigating Records: Piecing Together the W.W.W.W.W.H.!

3/16/2023 - ARMA Liberty Bell, The Importance of Archives and Their Relationship to Records and Records Management

3/16/2023 - ARMA Vancouver, Joint VCC/ARMA Speaker Session: Jeff Marceil from Micro Com Systems

3/16/2023 - IAPP and BigID, California Privacy Rights Act: Are We There Yet? (members only)

3/16/2023 - AIIM, Colligo, and Infotechtion, AIIM+ Meeting the Challenge: Don't Break Up with M365 Too Soon (Part 2) (members only)

3/16/2023 - ARMA Greater Columbus, How to Relaunch a Records Management Program

3/17/2023 - ARMA Arizona, Spring Seminar

3/21/2023 - ARMA Mile High Denver, The Continually Continuous World of Continuity

3/21/2023 - ARMA San Antonio, Pushing the Business Case for Records Management

3/21/2023 - ARMA Central Missouri, 100 Years of Service: How the Port of Corpus Christi is updating its Outdated Records Retention Policy. Contact Joanne Looten, lootenje@umsystem.edu, to register. 

3/21/2023 - ARMA Tidewater, Beyond the Records: What is the Future of RIM?

3/21/2023 - AIIM+, Meeting the Challenge : Disaster Planning (members only)

3/21/2023 - RIMPA, "I Love Our Organization's R/IM Policies", Said No One

3/21/2023 - MER Sapient and ZL Technologies, Clean Up and Childproof Your File Shares

3/21/2023 - IAPP, IAPP- EY Annual Privacy Governance Report 2022 (Part 2)

3/22/2023 - ARMA Hawai'i, Applying Data Retention to Information Systems and How This is Impacted by Privacy

3/22/2023 - AIIM True North, Is Your Change Strategy Backward? – Inverting the Model Might Be the Better Path! 

3/22/2023 - ARMA Houston, A Tale from the Field - Facility Project Handover

3/22/2023 - ARMA Pittsburgh and ILTA, Conquer Data Chaos: Strategies for Regaining Control of Your Content Management

3/22/2023 - Greater Kansas City ARMA, Gamifying Governance: Putting the FUN in FUNctional for your RIM Compliance Program

https://mailchi.mp/6a4a6f6ae407/mar22chaptermeeting

3/22/2023 - IAPP and Exterro, Building a legal and business case for data inventory (members only)

3/22/2023 - RIMPA, Adding Value Through New Strategic Directions

3/23/2023 - IRMS Schools Group, Records Management in a Digital School

3/23/2023 - ARMA New England, Information Security Policies

3/23/2023 - Access, Preserving the Past, Managing the Present, and Planning for the Future: A Discussion on Archiving, Records, and Data

3/23/2023 - ARMA Greater New Orleans, The Calm Before The Storm: Preparing for Recovery

3/28/2023 - ARMA and Leadership Through Data, Be Bold, Be Brave and Deliver an Amazing Presentation! 

3/29/2023 - ARMA Northern Virginia, ARMA Metro Maryland, and ARMA Greater Washington DC, Spring Seminar: Getting to the Finish Line on Electronic Records

3/29/2023 - ARMA Milwaukee, Every Dragon has a Name - Information Recording for Dungeons & Dragons

3/29/2023 - Austin ARMA, Chapter Business Partner Expo (members only)

3/29/2023 - ARMA Saskatchewan, Electronic Records Spring Cleaning

3/30/2023 - ARMA Toronto, Virtual Social

3/30/2023 - Digital Government Institute, E-Discovery, Records & Information Management Virtual Conference 2023

3/30/2023 - IAPP, Privacy beyond checkmarks: How to navigate cross-border transfers (members only)

3/30/2023 - Access, Navigating the Top Challenges in Records and Information Management

3/31/2023 - ARMA Boise Valley, Cybersecurity Pt. 2 - Information System Hardening Strategies for Records and Information Management Professionals 

4/4/2023 - MER Sapient and Contoural, Who Should Own Records Management?

4/4/2023 - ARMA Madison, Career Crossroads and Opportunities

4/5/2023 - ARMA Baton Rouge/Lafayette, Salary Negotiation

4/5/2023 - AIIM, Helux, and Microsoft, Moving from Chaos to Knowledge – Four Steps to Intelligent Information Management

4/5/2023 - Zasio, Virtual Coffee with Consulting: What On Earth Is Going On With ChatGPT? (And What Does It Have To Do With IG?)

4/6/2023 - ARMA Triangle, The AI-Enabled Information Professional: Employing AI to Manage Digital Content

4/6/2023 - ARMA Upstate NY, Microsoft 365 and Records Management

4/6/2023 - NAGARA, Saint Louis Zoo Case Study: Our Journey & Successful Transition to an EDMS for Animal & Veterinary Records

4/11/2023 - ARMA Dallas, Keeping it Fresh Spring Seminar

4/11/2023 - Twin Cities ARMA, Spring Conference

4/11/2023 - Greater Chattanooga Chapter of ARMA, M365 Retention Policies. Contact Scotty Swafford at Scotty_Swafford@bcbst.com to register. 

4/11/2023 - ARMA Northeast Ohio, How to Align Your Digital Mail Workflow with IG & Security Best Practices. Contact Eileen Cook, eileencook@westfield-Bank.com, to have a meeting invitation forwarded to you.

4/12/2023 - ARMA Milwaukee, Active Recovery for Unavoidable Stress - High Performance Under Pressure

4/12/2023 - AIIM True North, What are the top five determinants for a successful digital transformation?

4/13/2023 - ARMA Western Michigan, Building and Sustaining Your RIM Program with a RIM Playbook. To register, email armawestmi@gmail.com. 

If you know of a webinar or other local/regional event during this period that is focused on IM, IG, RM, etc. that's not listed, let me know here or at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com. 

If you're looking for a speaker, I'm available to speak at your chapter or event. For more details, see http://informata.blogspot.com/2022/06/im-available-to-speak-at-your-meeting.html; this post also lists a few other speakers who are available and quite good. I published a separate blog post about how to find speakers and what to look for at http://informata.blogspot.com/2022/06/finding-speakers-for-your-event-part-1.html. 

Speaking Schedule Update, March 2023

 Just a quick note to share all my confirmed and potential speaking engagements for the next few months. 

• March 15, ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, Building and Sustaining Your RIM Program with a RIM Playbook
• April 13, ARMA Western Michigan, Building and Sustaining Your RIM Program with a RIM Playbook - details to be posted after their March meeting
• April 19, ARMA Nebraska Spring Seminar
• April 25-27, AIIM23, How to Leverage Privacy Practices to Build Customer Trust
• May 22-24, MER, Building and Sustaining Your IG Program with an IG Playbook
• June 14, MER Immerse, Workshop: Building an IG Playbook Note that this is part of the MER 2023 conference registration process, but is a separate registration fee of $299 by April 30, $349 after that. Not sure if it will be available as a standalone registration after MER 2023. 

As I wrote here, I'm available to speak at your local chapter webinar or event, and for non-profits, I'm not charging any speaking fees through the end of the current chapter year, June 30, 2023. I do charge travel for in-person events, but I'm a pretty cheap date. If you're interested, reach out to me at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com. 

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, March 1 - 31, 2023

 Here are the webinars and local events I'm aware of for March 1-31, 2023. I don't have anything to do with them from a planning perspective, so please reach out to the individual event producers with any questions. I also don't get paid or get anything out of this other than the satisfaction of helping get the word out.  

3/1/2023 - ARMA Baton Rouge/Lafayette, Change Management

3/1/2023 - ARMA New Jersey, Strategic Partnerships and Alliances

3/1/2023 - Microsoft and Infotechtion, Simplify and Extend Purview Records Management

3/1/2023 - Contoural, Five Stages of Privacy Program Development from Denial Through Frustration and Getting to Compliant Execution

3/2/2023 - ARMA Triangle, Communicating W/ Privacy Professionals – A Guide for Records Management Professionals

3/2/2023 - IAPP, Building trust in a data-driven world: A collaborative approach to privacy (members only)

3/2/2023 - Digital Government Institute, Artificial Intelligence Implementation Case Studies

3/6/2023 - IRMS, Microsoft Purview extensions for effective experiences for Event based records, Disposition reviews

3/7/2023 - AIIM+, Records Managers Coffee & Conversations - Global Email Retention Policy (members only)

3/7/2023 - NAGARA, Understanding Residential School Archival Records

3/7/2023 - MER Sapient and Contoural, Can Automatic Updates to Your Records Schedule Create Compliance Risk?

3/7/2023 - ARMA and Leadership Through Data, Microsoft Syntex

3/8/2023 - ARMA San Diego, Taking a Journey Through Our Information Universe

3/8/2023 - ARMA Metro Maryland, FOIA In Fairfax County, VA – Growing Volume, Evolving Information Governance, And More

3/8/2023 - IRMS Ireland, How to Empower Yourself and Inspire your Colleagues to Achieve Info Mgmt Success

3/8/2023 - ARMA Northern Colorado, Privacy-Enabling Your Records Retention Schedule 

3/8/2023 - AIIM and Microsoft, Insider Risk: Top Tops to Protecting your Organization's Information from the Inside Out

3/8/2023 - IAPP and Transcend, Rethinking data visibility: Why effective governance needs continuous discovery (members only)

3/9/2023 - ARMA Metro NYC-LI, Standard Records Classification: A Tool for Success

3/9/2023 - IAPP, Biggest Data Privacy Year Yet: New States, HR Data, Evolving Regs and More (members only)

3/10/2023 - AIIM+, Community Fail Fest (members only)

3/14/2023 - ARMA North Dakota, ND Supreme Court Case and Records Management Review. Contact Susan Carlson at susan.carlson@und.edu for more information or to register. 

3/14/2023 - Twin Cities ARMA, Impact of the Pandemic on Information Governance

3/14/2023 - ARMA Northeast Ohio, Mission Possible with IG: Shifting Culture through Governance and Collaboration. Contact Eileen Cook at eileencook@westfield-bank.com for more information or to register. 

3/14/2023 - ARMA Chicago, Lunch at the Library

3/14/2023 - Greater Chattanooga ARMA, GCAC Planning. Contact Scotty Swafford at scotty_swafford@bcbst.com to register.

3/14/2023 - IAPP, Weathering the storm: Building an effective privacy budget & proving ROI in 2023 (members only)

3/14/2023 - ARMA Dallas, IG/RIM Principles with Aviation Applications

3/14-16/2023 - Lewis Eisen, Advanced Policy Drafting Techniques. Some ARMA chapters offer a discounted rate; contact your chapter to see if it is one of them.

3/15/2023 - ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, Building and Sustaining Your RIM Program with a Records Management Playbook

3/15/2023 - IRMS Ireland, How to Empower Yourself and Inspire your Colleagues to Achieve Info Mgmt Success

3/15/2023 - ARMA Nebraska, Mysteries of San Bruno - Could Better RIM Have Prevented Disaster?

3/15/2023 - ARMA St. Louis, Book Conservation in St. Louis and What's with the Buzz about Bots? 

3/15/2023 - ARMA Seattle, Keeping it Engaging in a Hybrid World during RIM Month

3/15/2023 - IAPP, Changing Privacy and Stakeholder Management for a Cloud-First World (members only)

3/15/2023 - IRMS, Digital Preservation with Jaana Pinnick

3/15/2023 - Contoural, Who Should Own Records Management?

3/16/2023 - ARMA Western Michigan and ARMA Detroit - Taking Flight- Leveraging ARMA’s Information Governance Maturity Model. Contact Aleesa Hounshell at armawestmi@gmail.com for more information or to register.

3/16/2023 - IAPP, Global Privacy Laws Virtual Roundtable: 16 March 2023

3/16/2023 - ARMA Utah, Spring Seminar, Investigating Records: Piecing Together the W.W.W.W.W.H.!

3/16/2023 - ARMA Liberty Bell, The Importance of Archives and Their Relationship to Records and Records Management

3/16/2023 - IAPP and BigID, California Privacy Rights Act: Are We There Yet? (members only)

3/16/2023 - AIIM, Colligo, and Infotechtion, AIIM+ Meeting the Challenge: Don't Break Up with M365 Too Soon (Part 2) (members only)

3/17/2023 - ARMA Arizona, Spring Seminar

3/21/2023 - ARMA Mile High Denver, The Continually Continuous World of Continuity

3/21/2023 - ARMA Central Missouri, 100 Years of Service: How the Port of Corpus Christi is updating its Outdated Records Retention Policy Contact Joann Looten at lootenje@umsystem.edu to register. 

3/21/2023 - RIMPA, "I Love Our Organization's R/IM Policies", Said No One

3/22/2023 - ARMA Hawai'i, Applying Data Retention to Information Systems and How This is Impacted by Privacy

3/22/2023 - AIIM True North, Is Your Change Strategy Backward? – Inverting the Model Might Be the Better Path! 

3/22/2023 - ARMA Houston, A Tale from the Field - Facility Project Handover

3/22/2023 - AIIM and Cadence Solutions, Part 2: A Forms and Document Capture Solution in Microsoft 365? Say What??

3/22/2023 - IAPP and Exterro, Building a legal and business case for data inventory (members only)

3/23/2023 - IRMS Schools Group, Records Management in a Digital School

3/23/2023 - ARMA New England, Information Security Policies

3/28/2023 - ARMA and Leadership Through Data, Be Bold, Be Brave and Deliver an Amazing Presentation! 

3/29/2023 - ARMA Northern Virginia, ARMA Metro Maryland, and ARMA Greater Washington DC, Spring Seminar: Getting to the Finish Line on Electronic Records

3/30/2023 - Digital Government Institute, E-Discovery, Records & Information Management Virtual Conference 2023

If you know of a webinar or other local/regional event during this period that is focused on IM, IG, RM, etc. that's not listed, let me know here or at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com. 

If you're looking for a speaker, I'm available to speak at your chapter or event. For more details, see https://informata.blogspot.com/2022/06/im-available-to-speak-at-your-meeting.html; this post also lists a few other speakers who are available and quite good. I published a separate blog post about how to find speakers and what to look for at https://informata.blogspot.com/2022/06/finding-speakers-for-your-event-part-1.html. 

How I Pull Together My Fortnightly Events Listings

As I sit here on a Sunday afternoon, working on my March 1-31, 2023 events listing, I thought some of you might be amused and/or horrified by the process I use to put it together. It's a work in progress; I'd certainly welcome any thoughts on how to streamline the process or make the resulting information more useful. 

As with so much of what I do, it starts with a spreadsheet. The current version has 4 tabs:

• Overview - this lists the association-y sources for events. My current list includes AIIM, ARMA, RIMPA Global, IRMS, InfoAdvocates, MER, NAGARA, and IAPP. 
• AIIM and ARMA Chapters - just what it says. More detail on this below. 
• Standing Conferences - this is more for my monthly newsletter. 
• Vendors - this tab lists vendors who put on webinars that are highly educational and not sales pitches. It's a fairly short list at the moment and includes Contoural, WesternIM, Meru Data, and the Digital Government Institute. I have a number of other vendors I check periodically, but vendors seem to take pride in making it difficult to find their webinars on their websites, and the ones that do, are almost always either product demos or sales pitches. If you think yours should be on my list, contact me at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com WITH A URL that I can regularly check, e.g., somecompany.com/events. Or put me on your mailing list, but again if I don't think it's educational it won't get listed. 

My fortnightly process is as follows: 

• Delete all information prior to the date of publication, in this case March 1, 2023. 
• Review my personal and work email accounts for any event announcements. 
• Check each site listed on the Vendors tab. 
• Check each site listed on the Overview tab. For AIIM, this means going into the Community (members only), checking the events listed there, and then going to the AIIM website and checking the Events > Upcoming Events page. For ARMA, this means going to the ARMA website and checking the Join & Connect > Events page. 
• Check the AIIM and ARMA Chapter tab. This is a little more involved and works as follows.

AIIM has 7 chapters listed in the AIIM Community. 3 of these have their own separate chapter websites. I have all of these listed on the AIIM and ARMA Chapter tab. I check the individual Communities and the chapter websites and add any events to the file. 

The ARMA Local Chapters page lists the following: 

• 14 Canadian chapters, 2 of which have no hyperlinks
• 2 international chapters, 1 of which has no hyperlinks
• 69 U.S. chapters, 4 of which have no hyperlinks and 2 of which have merged (Lexington and Louisville)

In other words, of the 85 chapters listed on ARMA's website there are really only 77 I need to check. 

Or is that true? Because, as part of my process, I also check any Facebook or Twitter accounts that I have been able to track down, either because they are listed on the website, or because I found them through a direct search. Not every chapter has FB or Twitter, but most have one or the other. I don't check LinkedIn because generally you have to join a group to see its postings, and this process already takes me 4+ hours twice a month. 

The order, then, is:

• If there's a website, check the website events page. 
• If there's no website, or nothing on it, check Facebook. 
• If there's no FB page, or nothing on it, check Twitter. 
• If there's no Twitter, or nothing on it, update my spreadsheet with "No events currently listed".  

What this all means is that just for AIIM and ARMA, between the chapter websites, FB, and Twitter, I'm currently checking up to 177 links twice a month. About 1x/quarter I do a fresh search for Facebook and Twitter accounts for the chapters I don't currently have listed. I don't generally check LinkedIn because I have yet to find a chapter posting there but nowhere else.   

I started doing these events listings in January 2022; any chapter that hasn't had a meeting since then, I've arbitrarily decided is probably inactive. So as of the date of this blog post, of the 92 chapters listed between AIIM and ARMA, I only count 71 that have had at least one meeting since that date. However, I still check the other 21 in the hopes that they will have revitalized.

Next, I have a plain text file that I keep updated. Why? Because this strips any formatting off so I don't have to worry about fonts, colors, sizing, etc. 

Now, when I say "Check each site", above, I check the site, and if there's something relevant, it goes into the text file, in date order, on one line, and then I add the URL indented one tab on a second line. If it's limited to members-only, for example AIIM's Records Managers Coffee and Conversation monthly meetings, I denote that in the listing, e.g., 

3/7/2023 - AIIM+, Records Managers Coffee & Conversations - Global Email Retention Policy (members only)

https://community.aiim.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=074084e9-ffe2-4fc4-a5c5-0185ad326456

Once I have what I believe to be the complete events listing, I copy the entire thing into a blog post. I *cut* the URL from below each event, to make sure I'm applying the right URL to the right event, and use the topic of the event as the link, so it looks something like this: 

2/14/2023 - ARMA Mile Hi Denver, Develop Your Own Tools to Provide RM Solutions to Your Organization

I then double-check the formatting, add the title, and hit Publish. Once the link is live, I post it to both ARMA communities, the AIIM community, Twitter, and LinkedIn.  In the post I note that if I overlooked anything, I'm happy to add it since it's just a matter of editing the blog post. 

One last note: I don't generally include longer-form events like conferences as I include those in my newsletter. Similarly, I don't include training, both for that reason and because the already-long events listing would more than double in length. 

I'm looking for a way to provide more context, but the blog is a bit limited in what I can efficiently do with that. Ultimately I'd like to add some sort of visual cue to denote: 

• In-person-only, hybrid, or virtual-only
• Members-only vs. open
• Paid vs. free (and that gets tricky - some events are free for members and not for non-members.)
• Other context that would be helpful? 

So that's it. It's a labor of love, with emphasis on labor! If you have thoughts on how to make this better or more useful, please let me know at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com. 

Lost Luggage: A Story in Governance, Privacy, and Process Automation

Lost luggage. Occupational hazard of the road warrior, right? I feel like I get stung by this more than is statistically likely, but I suppose we all do. I'm long past taking it out on the helpless lost baggage agents - that's a terrible thing to unleash on someone who has no responsibility for, nor ability to do, anything about it. 

But tonight's episode was a little different. Background: I was flying home from a speaking event and had the opportunity to get out a bit earlier on standby. Now, everyone who flies knows that per the FAA, or airline regulations, or something someone believes on their own, your bags Must. Be. On. Your. Flight. You can't fly on a different flight from your luggage. Well, unless the airline decides to. Or something. So in this case, there was a pop-up during the register for standby process that noted that my bags could go out on the standby flight, even if I didn't make it on, so I should check with the baggage claim office upon arrival. 

No problem; I checked my bags in at 1:15 pm for a 5:14 original departure, expecting that my bag would either arrive early, or be on my original flight. I made it on the standby flight. Aside, but relevant: my standby ticket put me in boarding group 4, and they are limited to 1 carry-on that can fit under the seat; moreover, they were already looking for people to check additional carry-ons. So between the two, I gate-checked my second carry-on. 

Boarded. Flew. Landed. Went to baggage claim. Waited. 

The gate-checked carry-on arrived about 10 minutes after I got there. 

After 30 minutes, I checked the app. There's a setting for "Track my bags", so I did. I saw a note with the following message: 

Bag arrived on a different flight. 

We wanted to let you know that your bag will arrive [emphasis mine] on a later flight. To save time and skip the baggage services line, use the United app to set up complimentary bag delivery. You can also call [number] for additional assistance. 

There was a helpful link to set up bag delivery, so I clicked it. As a reminder, this is a link from within the United app, which I was logged into at the time. 

The first field it asked me for was my United Mileage Plus number. 

Then it asked me for the rest of my personal information. 

It asked me to describe the bag. It did already know the claim ticket ID. 

And it asked me for a delivery address. This last I'm of two minds about. What are the odds of someone, based in Denver, flying the second leg of a round trip out of and into Denver, would want their luggage delivered to somewhere other than the address United has on file? It's possible, I suppose, but why not a similar confirmation as "shipping address" and "billing address" being on every form ever? 

I got a confirmation message, with a file reference, a confirmation number, and a bag tag, and the note that "A confirmation email has been sent to JWILKINS13@GMAIL.COM". That was over 90 minutes ago; no email has arrived. Yes, I checked my spam. 

So, some questions, two IG/privacy/process-related and two selfishly relevant probably only to me: 

• Why does the "deliver my bag" bit require the same information United already has about me? Is it a different system? Pass it through - like you did the fact that my bag has or will arrive maybe. Is it a different vendor? Same same. 
• Why, for something that people generally get extraordinarily upset about, is there no actual email despite the explicit promise in the message in the app? 
• When can I in fact expect delivery of my bag, which has, among other things, a medical device in it? I guess I'll be calling that number shortly. 
• And the big one - how did a bag that I checked in 4 hours early, using the United Premier desk, with actual human beings, not make it onto my flight? 

I did call the number, and it greeted me by first name on pickup, which was a bit creepy, and already knew that my call might be related to a delayed bag. It asked me to confirm last name, and then simply said, "We are searching for your bag and will post an update as soon as it located." Or check the website. Which I did, and it said,  So again, the whole "has arrived" and "will arrive" appear to be garbage at this point.  

Update: about 5 minutes ago, the baggage tracing site (https://www.united.com/en/us/baggage-tracing) has been updated to indicate that "Baggage Received at Airport". Still no email, though....

Interesting update: at 9:30 PM MST I got a text indicating that "Tijan" (name? company?) had picked up my baggage - and that I will be notified when my baggage is sent out. So.... I read this as some non-DIA entity is in possession of my bags but not directly on the way to deliver them? Still no email. 

Final update: Communications improved overnight; I got an email and text combo at 12:30 am that the deliver was on the way, and one at about 6:50 am that the suitcase had been delivered. Which it has! Haven't confirmed contents etc. - that's next. But this whole saga still does have me wondering about their process - there's clearly room for improvement from the privacy, IM, and process automation perspectives. 

The Information Management Menu, February 2023

The February 2023 issue of my IG/IM/RM-y newsletter, The Information Management Menu, is now live at https://mailchi.mp/b9e196e15b3f/the-information-management-menu-february-2023. Highlights include: 

• Announcements from the AIEF, ISO, ARMA, and NIST
• Calls for participation from RIMPA, ACMP, NAGARA, and others
• A new section listing training providers in the IG/IM/RM industry
• My recipe for Colorado Porktastic Green Chili
• 12 conferences and industry events through May 2023

The newsletter is free to subscribe to, and I'll only use your name and email to send it to you. Listing your announcements or events is also free, including for solution providers, consultants, and analysts - as long as they are relevant to me and this audience. For more information about The Menu or anything on it, ping me at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com. 

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, February 16 - March 15, 2023

Here are the webinars and local events I'm aware of for February 16 - March 15, 2023. I don't have anything to do with them from a planning perspective, so please reach out to the individual event producers with any questions. I also don't get paid or get anything out of this other than the satisfaction of helping get the word out.  

2/16/2023 - ARMA St. Louis, Protecting and Securing Content within Microsoft 365

2/16/2023 - ARMA Arizona, Considerations for Treating Data as an Asset in Transactions

2/16/2023 - ARMA Detroit and ARMA Mid-Michigan, Archiving War: Lessons from Iraq

2/16/2023 - ARMA Metro NYC, How to Privacy-enable Your Records Retention Schedule

2/16/2023 - ARMA Liberty Bell, Enterprise eContent Strategy

2/16/2023 - ARMA Utah, Are You Certified?

2/16/2023 - AIIM+ Meeting the Challenge, Canadian Privacy & Protection Act (members only)

2/16/2023 - Zasio, Centralized vs. Decentralized Records Management: Which Approach is Best?

2/16/2023 - InfoAdvocates, InfoGov Day 2023

2/16/2023 - Microsoft, Top 5 things State and Local government should do for managing records

2/17/2023 - ARMA San Antonio, Annual Seminar 2023

2/17/2023 - TeachPrivacy, Privacy in 2023: New Developments

2/21/2023 - ARMA Atlanta, The Convergence of Information Governance, Data Privacy & E-Discovery

2/21/2023 - ARMA Central Missouri, Tour of Shelter Insurance New Addition. Contact Lori Grothoff at lgrothoff@orscheln.com for more information or to register. 

2/21/2023 - ARMA Tidewater, Leadership and Teambuilding Skills. Contact Michelle Trader at mtrader@hrtransit.org by February 16 to RSVP. 

2/21/2023 - RIMPA Global, Fusing the Power of Information and People

2/21/2023 - MER Sapient, Valora Technologies, and Gimmal, Don’t Lift & Shift, Lift and Sift! AKA:  How to Migrate Correctly 

2/21/2023 - Information Governance World Magazine and Smarsh, What is a Record: Social Apps, Collaboration, AI– oh my!

2/22/2023 - ARMA Florida chapters, Sunshine Conference

2/22/2023 - AIIM Southwest, Navigating U.S. Privacy Laws Now Aligning with GDPR

2/22/2023 - ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, SCADA Technology - What is SCADA and how does it work?

2/22/2023 - AIIM, Infosource Software and ISIS Papyrus, Enabling End-to-End Business Process Automation: IDP Does The Heavy Lifting

2/22/2023 - IRMS Info Rights, A Post COVID Info Rights World

2/22/2023 - IAPP, State attorneys general on privacy in 2023 and what your business needs to know (members only)

2/22/2023 - Contoural, Who Should Own Records Management?

2/22/2023 - IMCanadaConnect, Are You Ready for RIM Month! Register for this event by emailing: brian.heinz@westernim.com.

2/23/2023 - ARMA Houston, US Secret Service Cybersecurity Seminar: Awareness and Practical Information to Protect Your Organization

2/23/2023 - ARMA Toronto, Virtual Social

2/23/2023 - EnChoice, Coffee Chats with Eugene Stakhov, How to Navigate the Preserve/Destroy Continuum

2/23/2023 - AIIM+ AMA: Creating the Paperless Office on a Budget (members only)

2/23/2023 = ARMA and Access, Unlocking the Value of Document Scanning

2/23/2023 - IAPP, Privacy Operations Management Virtual Roundtable

2/23/2023 - MER Sapient and ZL Technologies, Clean Up File Shares Defensibly   

2/23/2023 - Iron Mouontain, The Global Recession: Impact on RIM & IG

2/24/2023 - NAGARA, 2023 Winter Online Forum

2/24/2023 - RIMPA Global, Bringing the R back in ARANZ and RIMPA

2/28/2023 - AIIM+ Meeting the Challenge, Data Literacy (members only)

2/28/2023 - Hanzo, Best practices for Slack / Teams from IG through Litigation

2/28/2023 - ARMA and Leadership Through Data, All You Need to Know: Be Bold, Be Brave and Deliver an Amazing Presentation

3/1/2023 - ARMA Baton Rouge/Lafayette, Change Management

3/1/2023 - ARMA New Jersey, Strategic Partnerships and Alliances

3/2/2023 - ARMA Triangle, Communicating W/ Privacy Professionals – A Guide for Records Management Professionals

3/2/2023 - IAPP, Building trust in a data-driven world: A collaborative approach to privacy (members only)

3/7/2023 - AIIM+, Records Managers Coffee & Conversations - Global Email Retention Policy (members only)

3/7/2023 - NAGARA, Understanding Residential School Archival Records

3/7/2023 - IAPP, IAPP- EY Annual Privacy Governance Report 2022 (Part 2)

3/7/2023 - MER Sapient and Contoural, Can Automatic Updates to Your Records Schedule Create Compliance Risk?

3/8/2023 - ARMA San Diego, Taking a Journey Through Our Information Universe

3/8/2023 - ARMA Northern Colorado, Privacy-Enabling Your Records Retention Schedule 

3/8/2023 - IRMS Ireland: How to Empower Yourself and Inspire your Colleagues to Achieve Info Mgmt Success

3/9/2023 - IAPP, Biggest Data Privacy Year Yet: New States, HR Data, Evolving Regs and More (members only)

3/14/2023 - ARMA North Dakota, ND Supreme Court Case and Records Management Review. Contact Susan Carlson at susan.carlson@und.edu for more information or to register. 

3/14/2023 - ARMA Twin Cities, Impact of the Pandemic on Information Governance

3/14/2023 - ARMA Northeast Ohio, Mission Possible with IG: Shifting Culture through Governance and Collaboration. Contact Eileen Cook at eileencook@westfield-bank.com for more information or to register. 

3/15/2023 - ARMA Nebraska, Mysteries of San Bruno- Could Better RIM Have Prevented Disaster?

3/15/2023 - IAPP, Changing Privacy and Stakeholder Management for a Cloud-First World (members only)

3/15/2023 - IRMS, Digital Preservation with Jaana Pinnick

If you know of a webinar or other local/regional event during this period that is focused on IM, IG, RM, etc. that's not listed, let me know here or at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com. 

If you're looking for a speaker, I'm available to speak at your chapter or event. For more details, see http://informata.blogspot.com/2022/06/im-available-to-speak-at-your-meeting.html; this post also lists a few other speakers who are available and quite good. I published a separate blog post about how to find speakers and what to look for at http://informata.blogspot.com/2022/06/finding-speakers-for-your-event-part-1.html. 

The Information Management Menu, January 2023

Overlooked posting this! The January 2023 issue of my IG/IM/RM-y newsletter, The Information Management Menu, has been live for a couple of weeks at https://mailchi.mp/da179b702942/the-information-management-menu-january-2023. Highlights include: 

• Calls for participation from ARMA, ARMA Canada, ARMA Houston, NAGARA, and others
• My recipe for crustless pizza
• 13 conferences and industry events through April 2023

The newsletter is free to subscribe, and I'll only ever use your name and email to send it to you. Listing your announcements or events is also free, including for solution providers, consultants, and analysts - as long as they are relevant to me and this audience. For more information about The Menu or anything on it, ping me at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com.