This is the second post of a multi-part recap of the 2015 e-Records Conference. Presentation materials from the e-Records Conference are available on the e-Records 2015 website. At the 2015 e-Records Conference, Vice President of Information Governance for IQ Business Group (IQBG) Carol Brock explained how her company helps the Department of Interior effectively manage 1M-70M…
We’ve all recently read about several government officials using personal email accounts or email servers to conduct government business. But they are not alone by any means – a recent survey of 412 high-level government employees conducted by Atlantic Media’s Government Executive Meeting Group revealed that approximately one-third of the employees surveyed said they sometimes…
Now that we all know most emails are government records – we do all know this, right?! – sometimes it can be confusing to figure out how to categorize our emails. First and foremost, always remember that email is a format, like paper or microfilm, and we decide which record series to use based on the…
This is the fourth post of a multi-part recap of the 2013 NAGARA E-Records Forum. Presentations from the E-Records Forum are available on the NAGARA website. Before it was even 20 years old, the original, legacy email system at UT Austin was ready to retire. It was slow, didn’t have room to store much, and…
For this article, we welcome guest blogger Amy Sanchez, Deputy City Secretary IV, City of Laredo, Texas. Amy describes her experience training over eight hundred city employees to manage email. Thank you for sharing, Amy! For approximately three weeks, three sessions per day, I taught 850 municipal employees about how to apply TSLAC’s records retention…
There are still spaces available for our third Managing Your Email webinar on Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 11:00 AM. You can register on our website at http://www.tsl.texas.gov/apps/slrm/training/classes_local.php for local governments or http://www.tsl.texas.gov/apps/slrm/training/classes_state.php for state agencies. Or, if you can’t attend on the 26th, our first Managing Your Email webinar was recorded and can be…
By Angela Ossar, Government Information Analyst Revised 7/16/12 to reflect changes to administrative rules for correspondence. This week’s Question of the Week is the #1 most-asked question in the Records Management Assistance unit: “How long do I keep email?” The short answer is: you treat emails the same you would paper records, meaning that you…