Our top 10 tips for a great EDRMS implementation May 14, 2012 No Comments
We are currently reviewing our Future Proof blog to improve its structure and navigation and have discovered that, since its inception in 2008, the most commonly searched for terms is ‘EDRMS.’
We have been advising agencies for a number of years about EDRMS and implementation projects. We have published some information about EDRMS on the website and blog (though we admit it can be tricky to find!) We have also kept track of some wonderful guidance provided on other sites by practitioners and other archival authorities.
A project team - http://www.flickr.com/photos/belvoirphotos/4926429726/
To assist you, we have brought this all together in a new resource, Recordkeeping in brief FAQs about EDRMS (RIB61). This RIB is now available on our website. Our plan is to take note of further enquiries and comments from clients to refine and add to this list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) over time.
In this post we offer our top 10 tips for a great EDRMS implementation drawn from the new RIB.
We have moved premises: Farewell to the historic Rocks precinct May 7, 2012 No Comments
Today we closed a chapter in the history of State Records NSW. Government Recordkeeping, including the Digital Recordkeeping Team, moved premises. Read the rest of this entry »
State Records survey on social media use in NSW government May 3, 2012 No Comments
Do you work in NSW government?
Does your organisation tweet? Have a Facebook page? Use Yammer? Collaborate over a wiki? Or post videos to You Tube? If so we would love to hear from you!
If your NSW public office uses social media to raise its profile, communicate directly with the public and/or collaborate on a range of business issues, then we would love you to fill out our brief survey on social media and recordkeeping.
It should only take a couple of minutes to complete and we hope it will give us some good information on:
- what kinds of social media applications are being used in government
- why they are being used, and
- what recordkeeping strategies are necessary or feasible.
We also want to know if your NSW government organisation does not use social media – all information on how social media is being used or not used across government is of interest to us.
We will do a follow-up blog post soon to report on the survey results.
We have compiled the survey because we want to develop an online training course on social media recordkeeping, and the data from the survey will hopefully help us to make this relevant to the needs of the NSW public sector. Your feedback will also help us to recommend some specific recordkeeping strategies that will work with both the social media tools that are being used in NSW government and the business needs that are driving these different forms of social media use.
So if you work for the NSW public sector, we would really love to hear your views!
The survey closes on Friday 11 May.
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NSW Police achieve efficiency and process improvement through innovative recordkeeping No Comments
Kate and I visited the Process and Records Services team at NSW Police headquarters recently. We were very impressed with a number of initiatives the team are undertaking and how they are reaching out to IT and the business. The main goals driving their projects include the desire to streamline business processes, reduce inefficiencies and ensure that the NSW Police Force are not creating ongoing records storage and legacy problems.
One of these initiatives is the subject of a new case study which has now been added to our draft Managing digitisation programs and projects guidance. 
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Invitation to comment on our digitisation guidance April 11, 2012 No Comments
Digitisation lab - http://www.flickr.com/photos/binglib/2736094250/
The exposure period is coming to an end on 27 April so please send us your comments!
