Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

At the end of August Janet and I, as well as several other colleagues, attended the excellent International Council on Archives (ICA) 2012 Congress in Brisbane. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, chatting with and learning from 1000 other archivists from 95 countries around the world. (Drink. *) The ICA Congress only runs once every four years […]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thinkpublic/2366197687/ Yesterday I spoke at the NSW Right to Information/Privacy Practitioners Network at the lovely Parliament House Theatrette. The Practitioners Network is a really fantastic network of professionals who meet to share information about GIPA (Government Information Public Access) and privacy matters that affect those working in the NSW public sector. Also speaking this morning was William Murphy […]

  Barbara Reed at Standards Australia ceremony, 1 June 2012 (Barbara is fourth from the right) We are extremely pleased to report that Barbara Reed’s enormous contribution to records management standards development has been officially recognised by Standards Australia. On 1 June 2012 Barbara was awarded the Meritorious Contribution Award (International) at ceremony in Melbourne. […]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/catnipstudio/3852732117/ A couple of weeks ago Janet and I went to a great conference run by the NSW Knowledge Management Roundtable. There were a range of excellent speakers but the last speaker of the day, Shawn Callahan, the founder of Anecdote, spoke about the value of storytelling. His presentation really resonated with us. Shawn said humans are story-telling […]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/katerw/4566825653/ 30 June 2012 marks the end of the phased implementation timetable of State Records’ Standard on digital recordkeeping. Under the terms of the Standard, records now need to be made and kept of the high risk business operations that are performed in all your relevant digital business systems. It is important to be aware that […]

June 9 is International Archives Day and together with our blog sisters at Archives Outside, Future Proof is celebrating! Go and check out Archives Outside’s Archives are Awesome post while here at Future Proof we are celebrating all things recordkeeping. Here are our top 5 reasons why we think recordkeeping is awesome. Number 1: Good […]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianjmatis/3431100962/ This is the 100th post on the Future Proof blog! In this post we thought we’d use the opportunity to give you a quick history of Future Proof, an overview of the slight changes we have made to it to coincide with our 100th post, an insight into what the blog analytics reveal about […]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/5547535499/ Last month State Records distributed an informal online survey to our NSW public sector records contacts, to ask about social media use in NSW government. In this post we report on all the results.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/salihan/3590753580/ When talking to people across government about the importance of records management, recordkeeping controls and records disposal, we are very regularly challenged by the argument, ‘But storage is cheap. I can just keep it all. I can run Google across the top of all my data. I don’t need to do all these costly […]

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 […]