Next Chapter Meeting

Title:

Too Many Bits will Byte

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Location: Stevens and Stevens

Clerawater, FL

by Donna Read, CRM, CDIA+

 

Presentation:

Too Many Bits will Byte

Since the introduction of the computer to your office space, moving from the paper world to the electronic world or records management has evolved over the course of decades. We’ve hardly noticed that almost 99% of what is generated is born digitally. Yet with all these advances we’re still stuck with one foot in the paper world and one in the digital world. And no one seems to want to manage the digital landfills that have grown large and cumbersome.

 

If all these bits and bytes were converted to paper overnight would your management take notice? Would they be concerned that no one is managing the records and information if instead of a 120 GB hard drive on the server, it was more like 13 tractor trailers full of records parked in the front parking lot? I’m inclined to think they would be ordering someone to do something about it.

 

In order to better equip you to convince management of the volume of records that really exist within your organization and arm you with facts to obtain support, we are going to be doing a workshop on how to convert those bits and bytes into their paper equivalent.

 

Bring your calculator, some paper and writing instruments and leave this session with a powerful new tool in your records and information managers’ toolkit.

Speaker Bio:

 

Donna is a Certified Records Manager, and a Certified Document Imaging Architect with a degree in Business Management and 15 years of experience in the records management field. She has worked in the private sector as a project manager for the implementation of an EDMS (Electronic Document Management System) and RMA (Records Management Application) which were simultaneously installed. She became the Manager of the Office of Records Management for the same organization.

 

She has been employed by the Federal government with the National Archives and Records Administration since 2002 as a Senior Records Analyst. She is part of a nation-wide team that provides records management consulting and training to all Federal agencies. She works from a satellite office in Palm Harbor, Florida, but travels extensively in support of her clients. She is currently embedded with the records staff at US Central Command at MacDill AFB in Tampa as they slog through a digital landfill of 47 TB of Iraqi war records.

 

Date & Time:

Tuesday, October 18. 2011

10:00 am Board Meeting (Open to Members)

11:15 am Networking

11:30 am Lunch

Noon to 1:00 pm Presentation

 

Location:

Stevens and Stevens

11515 53rd Street North

Clearwater, FL 33760

 

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Cost Includes Lunch:

$18.00 for Members

$23.00 for Non-Members

 

RSVP no later than October 17, 2011

WALKS INS ARE WELCOME BUT NO LUNCH GUARANTEED