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Obama Orders Agencies to Improve Records Management Policies

By on December 1, 2011 in Records Management

Looks like things are heating up in the government sector around ECM/RM.  Should make for an interesting first quarter.
Reposted from Federal Times…
Agencies must deliver plans for modernizing their records management policies by late March, President Obama said in a Monday memorandum.
The memo urges officials to digitize records whenever possible but notes that greater use of [...]

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Searching for In-Place Records using CAML

By on October 31, 2011 in CAML, Records Management, SharePoint Search

Just a quick note to all you records management junkies out there.  Here’s a question I’m seeing a lot of.  “Can I write a CAML query to locate all of the documents that have been declared as in-place records?”
The answer is yes.  It’s actually quite simple.  There is a new field called “Declared Record” that [...]

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GimmalSoft Achieves (DoD) 5015.2 Certification

By on September 29, 2011 in Content Management, Document Management, Records Management, SharePoint 2010

After a long and arduous process, the GimmalSoft Compliance Suite has finally received the coveted Department of Defense 5015.02 certification, making it the only certified RMS built on the SharePoint 2010 platform.  What does this mean for the rest of us?
Well, for one thing, it means that companies will no longer have to purchase multiple [...]

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Unregistering Custom Record Declaration Handlers

By on September 14, 2011 in Records Management, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Development

As you know, using the SharePoint 2010 server object model, you can install your own custom record declaration handlers.  Didn’t know that?  Oh?  You mean you haven’t already setup your site to keep track of every time a record is declared or undeclared?  Well, you’re in for a treat!  But you’ll have a wait a [...]

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European Best Practices Conference = Great!

By on April 17, 2011 in Best Practices, Records Management, SharePoint 2010

Well, I’m back from a truly wonderful week in London attending and speaking at the European Best Practices Conference, and I have to say, there is something special about this show. I had the privilege of speaking 2 years ago, and I was impressed then by the quality of the event. But it has [...]

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Upcoming SharePoint Conference Dates

By on March 16, 2011 in Conferences, Records Management, SharePoint 2010

Conference season is starting to heat up again.  First up is the SharePoint Connections conference in Orlando, March 27-29.  I’ll be giving three talks:

I’ll also be speaking at the upcoming SharePoint Best Practices conference in London, April 11-13.  I had the distinct privilege of speaking at the London conference a couple of years back and [...]

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Gearing up for the Best Practices Conference

By on August 10, 2010 in Best Practices, Conferences, Records Management, SharePoint Development

 
Well, the date is fast approaching for the annual SharePoint Best Practices Conference hosted by MindSharp.  This will be my first time speaking at the conference, and I must admit I’m getting pretty excited about it.
The thing about this conference that sets it apart from others is that it really focuses everyone’s attention on [...]

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MER 2010 Conference on Records Management

By on May 5, 2010 in Records Management

I’ll be giving a talk on SharePoint 2010 Records Management at the Managing Electronic Records (MER 2010) Conference in Chicago on May 18th. 
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S23 – Managing Electronic Records using SharePoint 2010

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MER 2010 Conference

By on May 5, 2010 in Conferences, Records Management

[ May 18, 2010; 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. ] I’ll be giving a talk on SharePoint 2010 Records Management at the Managing Electronic Records (MER 2010) Conference in Chicago on May 18th. 

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S23 – Managing Electronic Records using SharePoint 2010

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Interesting Discussion of the Impact of SP2010 on other ECM Players

By on March 23, 2010 in Content Management, Microsoft Corporation, Records Management

A few days ago, John Mancini, president of the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), posted a rather loaded discussion question on the AIIM Linked-In group.  The question was “How will SharePoint 2010 effect the existing ECM players?”.  It quickly generated responses from a broad spectrum of people, many of whom are either employed [...]

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