Certificate in Electronic Discovery Management - UW School of Law

Certificate program offered by the University of Washington, School of Law, on Electronic Discovery Management. Check out the information on this course and see if it's something you, or someone you know, would be interested in.

Some leading Records and Information Management experts sat on the advisory board for this program, and worked hard to get the curriculum approved by the school. And now it's available. Act fast, classes begin soon.

If this go around doesn't suite your hectic schedule - we hope to have it available again!

What's in Your Email... and Where is It"

Article in this month's King County Bar Association, Bar Bulletin, from Andrew J. SanAgustin "What's in Your Email...and Where is it?" Check it out - all about ECRM (Electronic Content Records Management).

ARMA 2009 Conference in Orlando FL (Oct. 13-18)

I'll be presenting at ARMA International 2009 in Orlando. My session is on Law Firm Records Management (October 17, 10am session). If you are heading to Florida, hope to see you at ARMA and perhaps you'll get a chance to sit in on my presentation (it is going to be a blast!!!!)

Description:
If you are new to legal or if you are already in the industry and interested in organizational best practices then this session is for you. This session is an introduction to records management in a law firm environment (mid- to large-size). Come discuss all aspects of records management in the legal culture – far different than other business disciplines. This interactive discussion revolves around managing the record life cycle (physical and electronic), from creation to destruction – and the pitfalls in between.

Objectives:
Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Apply best practices in the management of all the enterprises records (electronic and physical). 2. Draft a policy on how transfers are processed for the release of records, incoming attorneys with a book of business, and outgoing attorneys leaving with clients to other firms. 3. Develop strategies to use to manage a legal hold scenario for electronic and physical files. 4. Implement a retention policy and design a destruction program for electronic and physical records.

Hope to see you there!

Andrew

Big Business - Big Brother

Interesting revisit to a CNBC piece done back in 2006. Who had a record on you and what records are they keeping? You'd be surprised. Check your local listings for a schedule of the rebroadcast.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15519811

Follow me following you! http://twitter.com/AJSanAgustin and watch for twitter treats!

Next - YouTube 30 second seminars, look for it - coming soon!

In May alone, 37.3 million people visited Twitter, and more than 100 million users now log on to Facebook at least once a day. Now smart HR managers are using Twitter, Facebook, and other online tools to engage employees and drive productivity increases. A recent study from Human Capital Institute reports that nearly half of U.S. companies are using these corporate social networks and more than half have implemented their own internal blogs and wikis.

Southwest Airlines, UPS, Verizon Wireless, Lockheed Martin, Federal Reserve Bank and other top employers are using social media to boost workforce morale and performance.

Web 2.0 is here and it's being used. Fad, fascination, or fabulous, it's technology and culture that warrants serious consideration!

Andrew J. SanAgustin
sanaa@foster.com

ShopSavvy - Barcode Scanning Software for your Wireless

ShopSavvy is a new tool available for cell phones (currently available for the Google phone through T-Mobile) that can read barcodes and provide you with information about a product. You use the camera's built in camera to scan the barcode of an item. The free software will then search for related information about the product. This technology could be adapted for Records Management in the very near future. Who knows, perhaps one day users and Records professionals can use their own mobile devices to manage records of an organization!!!!