Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

For Information Awareness Month here at State Records, we are doing a series of posts on key challenges facing information professionals today. And, Master Chef style, these challenges don’t get much bigger than digital information retention and disposal. The ad hoc and unregulated deletion of information and the unwarranted over-retention of information can both critically affect […]

To celebrate Information Awareness Month, this week at State Records we are going to explore some of the key challenges facing information professionals today, starting with digital transitions. So what are digital transitions? photo by: Gideon Burton

At State Records NSW we have redeveloped our Recordkeeping in the NSW public sector pages on our main State Records website. We really hope this redevelopment helps to make our extensive resources about records and information management much more accessible, and accessible to a very broad audience. So what changes have we made? To improve its accessibility, we did […]

High risk business areas in each organisation should be priorities for information management activity, to identify and mitigate any information-related risks these business areas might face. The following defines common and specific information risks, looks at some strategies for identifying areas of high risk business which face information risk and provides mitigation strategies and case […]

Sorry it has taken a little while to add to this next instalment of our social media FAQs, but we have been receiving new batches of social media questions that we have wanted to answer and then share, hence the delay. So, this time around: How frequently do I need to capture records of our […]

At our most recent EDRMS Implementer’s Group meeting, we discussed digital disposal. Specifically we discussed: are organisations using disposal authorities to sentence, retain or destroy digital information? are there drivers for or barriers to digital disposal? what are some main issues that might be impeding the implementation of digital disposal? Lots and lots of interesting […]

At State Records we have been thinking more about issues to consider when moving to the cloud. In this post we explore: why use of cloud-based email is growing in government information management issues arising from use of cloud-based email applications, and possible risk mitigation strategies that can be put in place to manage these […]

Here are some of the questions we get asked about government use of social media: what is the legal status of information in social systems? does the State Records Act apply to social media? does defamation law apply to social media? how does the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act apply to social media? how […]

As social media is relatively new and rapidly evolving technology, there are no defined, best practice ways for making and keeping social media information as a business asset. Organisations also use different social media channels, in a variety of different ways and for various different types of business operations. Given there are no easy answers […]

There are a range of information management strategies you can apply to your social systems, based on your specific business needs and risks. The strategy you choose needs to be based on an analysis and understanding of business needs and risks. You may need to choose different information management strategies for each of the different […]