Adding to Eldin's observations, AIIM are bit off target. However no-one's grandfather (or grandmother) lived in an era where information was created at machine speed yet curated at human speed. Our RM forbears had a good 500 years to catch up after the first "big data" explosion caused by the printing press. It had been a fairly comfortable existence being the high priests of paper-based knowledge stores.

The second big data explosion is going to rewrite the rules again. AIIM mentions the volume, velocity and variety of information that has swept away our ability to mediate information no matter how many minions we have at our disposal.

What our grandfathers did not have access to were tools that can make classification decisions with human quality but at machine speed. We don't have them as commodity items yet, but they are coming.

Cheers!

Andy
Andy Carnahan
NSW Australia


On 30 April 2014 18:19, Eldin Rammell, Rammelll Consulting <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I’m guessing that whilst the fundamentals have not changed much, a course attended by our grandfather would not have included

 

·         the challenges of managing instant messages

·         the challenges of classifying web pages as records

·         issues arising from use of social media (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter)

·         the impact of PDF/A, including PDF/A-3

·         the impact of cloud computing, including cloud services for electronic archiving

·         latest developments in digital preservation techniques

·         etc, etc

 

We expect any training course that we attend to use current case studies and current scenarios to exemplify the course theory. My interpretation was that this is what AIIM were referring to when they say that this is not “your grandfather’s records management program”, not that the fundamentals have particularly changed.

 

Regards,

Eldin.

 

 

Eldin Rammell, Rammell Consulting Ltd

http://www.rammell-consulting.co.uk

Tel: 08448 844926 (Rammell Consulting office) or 07940 859721 (mobile)

 

 

 

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In a message dated 4/27/2014 2:51:57 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:

AIIM advertises their records management training with the logo, written in bold letters: This is NOT your grandfather's records management program!
http://www.aiim.org/Training/Certificate-Courses/Electronic-Records-Management

I  am very interested to learn from AIIM:
1) What is so wrong or obsolete in our grandfathers' (sic!) RM training, to deserve naming and shaming?
2) What is so revolutionary in the AIIM RM training to put to shame the RM training our grandfathers received?

I hope that AIIM will be courteous enough to give us a fact based evidence about the superiority of their course compared with our grandfathers RM training and knowledge, and not some PR verbal diarrhoea, trying to spin an insulting comment on older RM practitioners and trainers.

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