It’s that time of year again, when the sultry days of summer fade and the leaves begin to show gold.  It’s also the start of a new ARMA NOVA program season.  It is difficult to top last year’s results but we are going to try.

This past season we increased average attendance from 20 to 32, and increased our bank balance from just over $3,000 to over $11,000.  We also introduced a very successful joint training event with AIIM, the Electronic Records Management Practitioner course.  We produced three joint events with NCC-AIIM, all of which were very successful.  Our education seminar was also very successful.

We agreed upon a theme for the year: "RIM 2.0, Opportunities and Challenges."  The term "RIM 2.0" came out of our discussion about Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, and the challenges we face as RIM professionals with the new media.  We barely have a handle on paper records, electronic records and email, and now we have to deal with instant messages, Twitter, Facebook and the rest.  It creates a significant tension between collaboration and control.

In the discussion we discovered lots of "red meat" discussion points that will make for good fodder for our program year.  For example:

• What is a Record?

• New Tools for the Same Bad Behavior?

• What is RIM 2.0?

• How does RIM address the Cloud?

• How do you manage Social Networks with RIM?

• How will this change the RIM Profession?

• What tools and standards are needed?

• Collaboration vs. Control

One discussion point revolved around how this will change the RIM profession.  One board member made a very thought provoking statement: "In five years there will be no more RIM profession!"

She said this because she sees our profession evolving significantly with the advent of electronic records management, changing requirements for retention based on electronic storage and the cloud, auto classification and the like.  In our discussion we all agreed that major changes are coming, particularly the move to a role of setting and enforcing policy rather than the traditional filing room type of approach.

So plan to attend our monthly meetings; they should generate a lot of buzz.

This year our goal is to increase average attendance to 40, to hold 4 joint events, and to repeat our AIIM training event by hosting a course on Enterprise 2.0 Practitioner.  The E2.0 Practitioner course will provide all attendees with the fundamentals and issues surrounding this new challenge.  There will be a maximum limit on attendance at 40 and the course is scheduled for February.

Another new event for this season is a joint all day conference on E-Discovery and Records Management, to be held at the Ronald Reagan building in DC.  This is a joint event with DGI and will feature a full day of speakers on these topics.  This event is our Education Seminar for this season.

Another feature for this year is a couple of collaborations with ACT/IAC www.act.gov. Carolyn Offutt, our Treasurer, is on an ACT/IAC Special Interest Group on Social Media.  Her SIG will produce a technical report that will be the feature of our January meeting.  In addition, in collaboration with ACT/IAC, we plan to produce a joint event that will consist of a panel of industry experts, moderated by Reynolds Cahoon from Lockheed Martin and IAC.  This event is scheduled for November.

We have developed a very exciting and provocative program for the season.  Check it out here.

We expect this season to be an outstanding one, hope to see you there!

Mark Mandel, President NOVA ARMA
Public Records Administrator, DC Executive Office of the Mayor MandelMandelm2001@netzero.com

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Association of Corporate Counsel
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Electronic Discovery Resources
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Compliance Resources
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E-Discovery and E-Production Guidance
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provided links to
Understanding Metadata
and to SAA Glossary
 

IRS Publication 552
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Our Next Event

ARMA NOVA Dinner Meeting

Wednesday,

September 15, 2010
6:00 PM
 

Social Computing and
Records Management: Strange Bedfellows
 

 with speaker
 

John Mancini, President, AIIM International

Information and Registration Here>>

Meeting Recap

Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Dinner Meeting

District of Columbia
5 Year Strategic Plan to Update and Modernize Records and Information Management
 with speaker

Mark Mandel, CRM,
DC Government

Registration Closed

(Slides available soon)

Announcements

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ARMA NOVA Officers for  2010-11

President: Mark Mandel
Vice President: Brian Ruf
Chairman of the Board: George Darnell
Secretary: Angela Tayfun
Treasurer: Carolyn Offutt
Education Director: Elizabeth Adkins
Membership Director: Jack Frost
Director at Large: Suzanne Swenson

Chapter Member of the Year:
  Elizabeth Adkins

First Online Master’s Degree in Archives and Records Administration

Chapter Sponsors

Computer Sciences Corporation

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