Articles – Page 7 – ARMA Magazine

Mind Tools for Managers: A Crash Course in Effective Management Skills

Written by Charity Whan on April 9, 2019. Posted in Change Management, Education, Leadership & Management Skills, Review.

Mind Tools for Managers: 100 Ways to Be a Better Boss focuses on identifying the complete list of skills that managers can master to be better leaders in their organizations. The authors provide working professionals with practical advice for these...

ARMA Q&A: GDPR Regulations and Electronic Records

Written by Stuart Rennie on April 2, 2019. Posted in Communications, Data, Data Governance, Data Management, Data Storage, Europe, Privacy, Social Media.

Question: “What are the GDPR regulations for personal data in electronic records such as social media, video, and instant messages?” Answer: Since May 28, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) (2016/679) (GDPR) has...

Utah to Become Leader in Digital Privacy

Written by ARMA International on March 25, 2019. Posted in Communications, Information Access, News & Analysis.

The Utah legislature just passed landmark legislation in support of a privacy law that protects private electronic data stored with third parties (like Google and Facebook) from free-range government access. Molly Davis, in an opinion piece on...

‘Alexa, Fix My Records!’ A Look at AI in the Information Profession

Written by Jeff Hutchings on March 19, 2019. Posted in Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Content Analytics, Data Analytics, Document Management, Document Strategy, Documents, Electronic Records Management, Information Analytics, Information Governance, Information Management, Machine Learning, Manufacturing, Metadata, Records, Records Management.

To many people, “artificial intelligence” is a bit of an oxymoron. It is the suggestion that we can create something that then can be creative on its own. If intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills, requiring a measure...

The Next Internet: Will it Serve the Public’s Interest?

Written by Marc Kosciejew, PhD on March 14, 2019. Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud, Content, Data, Digital Transformation, Information Science, Information Security (Information Protection), Information Technology, Internet of Things (IoT, Connected Devices), Machine Learning, Web Content Management.

The Next Internet has arrived. The Internet of previous years has been replaced by a new iteration that is profoundly changing the digital landscape. In Becoming Digital: Toward a Post-Internet Society, Vincent Mosco introduces the Next Internet by...

Migrating Legacy Records – a Case Study

Written by Uta Fox, CRM, FAI on March 12, 2019. Posted in Compliance, Data Storage, Electronic Records Management, Information Technology, Migration, Project Management, Records, Records Management, Records Strategy, Vital Records.

Organizations that maintain electronic records systems may at some point need to undertake either a records conversion or migration to address software obsolescence. This article discusses how the Calgary Police Service’s (CPS) records and information...

ARMA President-Elect Says Expanded California Privacy Bill ‘Ups the Ante’ for IG

Written by ARMA International on March 5, 2019. Posted in Government, Information Governance, News & Analysis, Privacy.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra endorsed a bill last week that expands the state’s new privacy act to permit consumers to sue companies over their handling of personal data. The privacy law that was passed in 2018 gave consumers the...

Beyond Compliance: Eight Steps for Using Privacy By Design to Develop a Privacy Program

Written by Else Khoury on February 26, 2019. Posted in Information Governance, Privacy.

Governments globally are passing strict information privacy laws and regulations, and organizations are being hard-pressed to comply with them or suffer stiff penalties. Using the principles of Privacy By Design, organizations can design a privacy...

Why Information Architecture is Vital to Information Governance

Written by Kevin Parker on February 21, 2019. Posted in Content, Content Management, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Information Architecture.

Whether you are migrating petabytes of content from an obsolete enterprise content management (ECM) platform to a modern content management system (CMS) or just looking to make your intranet less awful, it’s time to get started with information architecture...

Professionals in Data Collection and Management Will Find Value in New Edition of ‘Fundamentals’

Written by Ana Rosa Blue, M.L.S on February 12, 2019. Posted in Archiving, Libraries.

Reviewed by Ana Rosa Blue TITLE: Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management, Fourth EditionAuthor: Peggy JohnsonPublisher: ALA EditionsDate: 2018Length: 432 pagesPrice: $85.00 | ALA Members: $76.50ISBN: 13 978-0-8389-1641-4 (softcover)Source:...