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Office 2.0 – a reality check?

Yazan: admin | 02 September 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Data Management, Databases

Rachel posted such an interesting comment on her experience of using Office2.0 technologies at the recent Society of Archivist’s conference that I thought it deserved picking up in a separate posting.
Rachel is absolutely right in pointing to how reliant the ‘dream’ of Office2.0 is on the nuts and bolts of technical infrastructure and [...]

How not to panic when you lose your laptop…

Yazan: admin | 28 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Data Management, Databases

Here’s an interesting post that defies the current convention: a man who fears that he has lost he his laptop but loses no sleep about the data he might have lost. Okay, so losing something as valuable as a portable computer would have been no laughing matter and then there is all the hassle with [...]

The need for dynamic records management

Yazan: admin | 16 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Data Management, Databases

I’ve made the point before that one of the greatest challenges posed by Web 2.0 to records management is the fact that the underpinning focus of control has now shifted significantly from the organisation to the individual (a fact acknowledged by Time magazine two years ago when it made ‘You’ its prestigious ‘Person of the [...]

Increasing interest in Google Apps

Yazan: admin | 05 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Data Management, Databases

When I first started hitting the conference circuit and blogsphere last year with my concerns regarding what the rise in Web2.0 and particularly Office2.0 solutions might mean for the future of records management, many I spoke to thought it would never happen to their organisation. So whilst it may have been an interesting theoretical [...]

The way forward? Niche solutions for niche problems

Yazan: admin | 05 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Data Management, Databases

One of the (very few) advantages of being laid up at home with tonsillitis has been the opportunity to catch up on some reading when energy levels allow.
One thing which caught my eye and which I never expected to see was an advert in the 17th May issue of The Spectator for an advert for [...]