What's The Informatician Extraordinaire Been Up To?

Well you may ask, my friend. I've been involved in e-mail and electronic record retention policies. Sounds uninteresting? Well, not in this post-Sarbanes-Oxley world. Here in Texas, we only need to say "Enron" to impart the gravitas of this necessary CYA.

For those Informaticians who are more behind the times than the Extraordinaire (see previous posts to see how far She can be) there are some helpful resources out there. Most of these links are courtesy of the friendly folk at ARMA International http://www.arma.org/

To help you convince your boss that they really REALLY need to listen to you, have them read this:

• Information Management: A Business Imperative - FAQs for Corporate Executives and Decision-Makers
• What CIOs Should Know About Records

Once you've got the head office on your side, you've got to get to writing. Here are some guides.

• Email retention policy: A step-by-step approach
• Email Retention Policy Template
  

Then you've got tp educate the workforce and re-enforce the message again, and again, and again...

• How Do I Deal with All This E-mail? (Pamphlet)

If this is something you are doing with your organization, drop the Informatician Extraordinaire a line and tell Her how its going for you...