On March 25th, I participated in a virtual FCW event on Electronic Records Management and M-19-21 Compliance.
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As we enter into these uncharted social distancing times, let’s give ourselves a break. Let’s let each other off the hook. Life is not perfect, and never was, no matter what it looks like on Facebook and Instagram. Let’s go back to the vision of Sir Tim for a Web that “allows us to build a society we are happy with.”
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Late one night a little more than ten years ago, I heard voices coming from my teenage daughter’s bedroom just as my wife and I were preparing to go to bed. Male voices.
Like any father, I went to investigate (holding my breath).
Opening the door, my daughter was sitting alone at her desk (release that breath) with her laptop. The voices continued.
“Are you still up? What are you working on?” said the [often] confused father.
Like any responsible set of teenagers, the voices stopped as soon as there was a recognized parental voice in the vicinity.
“Working on AP Latin,” came the reply. “We have a group project to translate a text, so we set up a Skype meeting for all of us and also a Google doc so we could all work together on the translation and correct each other’s work.”
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During my time on Twitter today — I am trying to limit this time for fear that my head will explode — I noticed that it was #nationalpuppyday. In these times of #coronavirus, who could resist adding a little joy to the world by posting a few puppy pics?
Always a fan of the photo recognition software on Google, I thought I would try to quickly find some pictures of two fave pups in our family, Murphy (owned by Erin and Spencer) and Charles Barkley ( owned by Will and Nats). I just searched my photos for “dog” and lo and behold, they popped right up.
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In the effort to focus my mind on SOMETHING other than #coronavirus, I had a crazy thought.
Ten years ago — yes, it’s been 10 years — I had a user contributed series of posts on my blog called “8 things you need to know.” The concept was simple — 1) Good quality contributions on some facet of information management 2) I would then post them on my blog as a guest post, and 3) I would socialize the heck out of them.
The effort was far more successful than I ever anticipated. Over the course of three years, I published 214 contributed “8 things” articles. It was great content (admittedly, mostly!), but mainly it was a lot of fun and I got to connect with some really interesting people.
Here are a couple of sample titles from 10 years ago:
8 Reasons SharePoint 2010 Looks Like a True ECM System [Yes, there was a time when people used to ask me whether SharePoint was “real” ECM.]
8 Things the Jersey Shore Taught me About the Future of Document Management [I am afraid to go back and see what this one was all about.]
8 Things to Wear to a Social Media Party [Duh, top hat and tails.]
8 Things that Always Worried you about Legacy Content, But Were Afraid to Ask [Some things just never go away.]
I note for the historical record that Jesse Wilkins (now with AIIM, then at Access Sciences) wrote the very first “8 things” post — 8 Steps You Can Take to Better Manage Your Inbox. [Again, some things just never go away.]
So for anyone interested, let’s do this again! Here are the rules…
Topic — some facet of information management, AI, intelligent automation
Humor — allowed and encouraged; life is short
Tone — don’t be mean and snarky; we’ve got enough on our minds right now
Length — about 750 words
Who can play — Anyone, but I will be ruthless about product pimping; make it educational!
How to submit — email your submissions to johnmancini@contentresults.net or jmancini77@gmail.com.
Let’s see what happens. Stay safe.
There is a lot of conversation right now in government circles about a set of looming deadlines that are designed to establish a new standard for how information is managed in the federal government. Known by the somewhat arcane code word M-19-21 (marketing never being a strong suit in the federal government), the deadlines are important because 1) they are designed to prod behavior in the direction of digital government; and 2) downstream, the standards established are likely to become defacto standards for state and local government records management.
I’ve been doing a series of guest articles on this topic on the Quality Associates web site, and the ten posts are a good way to catch up on what’s been going on. Check them out.
6 Key Worries SAORMs have about M-19-21 Compliance
What are you doing during Social Distancing Hibernation?
Cloud Smart: Legacy Systems a Key Challenge
Getting Over the Perfect and Embracing the Good
A “BRIDG” to Understanding Capstone
Website Records Often Overlooked in Contemplating M-19-21 Requirements
Isn’t Email Management ALREADY Supposed to be Under Control?
Simple Sounding M-19-21 Digital Records Requirements are Deceptive
Why does M-19-21 Digitization Matter?
Five Reasons M-19-21 Readiness Isn’t Business as Usual
Are President Trump’s Tweets Records?
If this whets your appetite, I’ll be speaking at a Federal Computer Week seminar on Electronic Records Readiness: A Practical Path to M-19-21 Compliance on March 25 at the Hamilton in DC.
You can register HERE. I hope to see you there!
Did you ever have one of those times when you are SURE that something was important, but you can’t quite seem to find anyone to pay attention? And you then appear to be one of those annoying people who can’t talk about anything else? Are the new federal archiving requirements a BIG DEAL? Or NOT?
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During the span of one single career, I’ve moved from dreaming about a $149 TI calculator to replace my slide rule to being able to summon 4 terabytes of storage directly to my door for $95 upon a mere voice command to a device in my kitchen. This is despite such well-known predictions as “I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse” (Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com) and “There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share” (Steve Ballmer).
And all of this will pale relative to the changes that will be brought about by the next industrial revolution. The fourth industrial revolution will be driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning and will offer all sorts of opportunities for radically redefined and streamlined processes and ways of working.
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On the one hand, technology has revolutionized both the access and potential value of very long-term archival information -- much of which originated as paper -- exposing it to the light of day after years in the basement and giving it new life.
And on the other hand, rapid and escalating technology innovation and the accumulation of ever-increasing cascades of digital information -- usually with no thought to how access will be preserved for future generations -- is creating a worrisome digital preservation scenario. Much of the world’s cultural, economic, social, and political memory is at some long-term risk. Will this information be available and digestible 75 years from now?
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The Players:
My Mom (Age = almost 88)
Me (Age = less than that)
A telecom company who will remain nameless. Maybe.
The Issue: Cancel my mom’s service.
What can this tell us about the next generation of CX (Customer Experience)?
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Among the various announcements that accompanied OpenText’s recent Enterprise World (Disclaimer: OpenText paid my way), one of the most intriguing to me centered around the joint keynote appearance of Mark Barrenechea and Google’s Kevin Ichhpurani (Corporate Vice President, Global Ecosystem at Google Cloud).
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I thought I would share my 7 key takeaways from the Content Services keynote at the recent OpenText Enterprise World event (Disclaimer: OpenText paid my way). And here’s number 1…
1 - Every organization as a starting point — and it's unique to that organization.
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