For anybody out there who might be in the Washington, DC area early next month, the ARMA Metro Maryland chapter has graciously asked me to speak to them about records and information management, SharePoint and the Integrated Information Lifecycle Management model on Thursday, February 9th.  If you’d like to attend my presentation, here’s a link [...]

Change is good and the New Year brings a new focus for this blog.  As many of you know, I am a Certified Records Manager and I’ve spent the better part of my career promoting effective electronic records management practices.  None of that has changed.  I firmly believe that the role of a Records Manager [...]

I’ve posted a number of articles on SharePoint records management and the ‘cloud’ and I’ve spoken at length on the subject with a whole host of people, both pro-cloud and anti-cloud.  I can honestly say both camps make strong arguments for or against managing records in a cloud environment.  Personally, I’m a little torn by [...]

Our friends at Gartner just released their annual Magic Quadrant report on Enterprise Content Management and it has some interesting things to say about the state of content and records management and SharePoint as a driving force in the market. Interestingly, Gartner notes that even though the global economy has been in a prolonged recession [...]

This month marks the third anniversary of the launch of this blog and those of us at SPRM want to take a moment to express our thanks to all of you who have been loyal readers and contributors.  Looking forward, we are all very excited about the future of SharePoint-based records and information management, which [...]

This month marks the third anniversary of the launch of this blog and those of us at SPRM want to take a moment to express our thanks to all of you who have been loyal readers and contributors.  Looking forward, we are all very excited about the future of SharePoint-based records and information management, which [...]

This month marks the third anniversary of the launch of this blog and those of us at SPRM want to take a moment to express our thanks to all of you who have been loyal readers and contributors.  Looking forward, we are all very excited about the future of SharePoint-based records and information management, which [...]

After a great deal of hard work by some very dedicated and very bright people at GimmalSoft, the US Department of Defense has officially certified the GimmalSoft Compliance Suite for SharePoint 2010 against the US DoD 5015.2 Records Management Application Standard. As I’ve noted on this blog before, I am a member of the team [...]

A number of the major ECRM vendors – OK, I’ll be honest, all of the major ECRM vendors – have worked tirelessly to downplay the records management functionality provided in SharePoint. I know this to be true because I have worked for some of these companies. For many of them this has become a matter [...]

Microsoft has made some fairly substantial improvements to SharePoint 2010 holds and electronic discovery functionality over the features that were first available in MOSS 07.  Perhaps the biggest change is making SharePoint 2010 holds available beyond the confines of the Records Center.  Unlike the feature in MOSS 07, holds in SharePoint 2010 can be managed [...]