Author: Arian D Ravanbakhsh

Web Study Report Released

by Arian D Ravanbakhsh, posted in General

During FY2010 a National Records Management Program team conducted a study, found at http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/resources/web2.0-use.pdf, on web 2.0 and social media tools use in Federal agencies. The purpose of the study was to "gather information on how Federal agencies use web 2.0 tools to create and share information and how this might affect the value of … Continue reading Web Study Report Released

Tool Spotlight: Multi-Agency Environments Bulletin

by Arian D Ravanbakhsh, posted in General

This month, our Toolkit for Managing Electronic Records spotlight falls on a Bulletin that we released last year, Guidance Concerning Managing Records in Multi-Agency Environments. This Bulletin provides guidance when Federal agencies collaborate and the responsibilities for record-keeping are unclear.  The Bulletin defines the conditions under which a multi-agency environment is present and discusses how … Continue reading Tool Spotlight: Multi-Agency Environments Bulletin

Tool Spotlight: Michigan Electronic Mail Retention Guidelines

by Arian D Ravanbakhsh, posted in General

This month, our Toolkit for Managing Electronic Records spotlight highlights a .PDF from the State of Michigan Records Management Services that serves as a quick visual aid to determine simple email retention guidelines . It also provides users with some easily understood examples to determine the record status of email messages. The Toolkit was developed … Continue reading Tool Spotlight: Michigan Electronic Mail Retention Guidelines

Electronic Records Summary Report Released

by Arian D Ravanbakhsh, posted in General

Today's post comes to us from Laurence Brewer, Director of the Life Cycle Management Division in the Modern Records Program. At yesterday’s Bimonthly Records and Information Discussion Group (BRIDG) meeting with Federal agencies, I announced the release of NARA’s Electronic Records Project Summary Report, FY 2005 – FY 2009. It is now available on our … Continue reading Electronic Records Summary Report Released

Technology Update: E-mail Archiving

by Arian D Ravanbakhsh, posted in General

In 2008, we  released a bulletin entitled “Guidance concerning the use of e-mail archiving applications to store e-mail”. The bulletin recognized that Federal agencies may have a business need for using e-mail archiving products to store e-mail messages in a central repository for later retrieval. These applications are advertised and marketed as solutions to control … Continue reading Technology Update: E-mail Archiving

Toolkit Spotlight: Continuing Study of Federal Agency Recordkeeping Technologies (2008)

by Arian D Ravanbakhsh, posted in General

For our Toolkit for Managing Electronic Records spotlight this month, we are going to focus on the 2008 Continuing Study of Federal Agency Recordkeeping Technologies. <.pdf link here> This study looked at how 4 specific Federal agencies were handling electronic records and e?mail messages. Sections 4.0 and 5.0 of the report document the responses that … Continue reading Toolkit Spotlight: Continuing Study of Federal Agency Recordkeeping Technologies (2008)

News from the Field: Spotlight on TSA’s RM Field Training Initiative

by Arian D Ravanbakhsh, posted in FRCP

Today's post comes to us from Matthew Eidson, Supervisory Archives Specialist in the National Archives Permanent Records Capture Section. I learned recently while reading the 2009 RM Self-assessment that not only is RM Training is an essential ingredient to an effective agency records management program, but that it was rooted in the CFR.  The requirement … Continue reading News from the Field: Spotlight on TSA’s RM Field Training Initiative