ARMA Brit Literary Award

I am now in the league of literary fellows of ARMA. I was the co-recipient of the Brit Literary Award for the article that Ellie and I wrote last year on the ISO 17799 standards.

The article deals with the convergence of information security with records management and gives the Corporate Records Manager some tools and insight into the world of information security.

This award is a great honor and I am proud to be the 2007 co-recipient!!

ARMA Recap

Well it's been a bit crazy around town for the past month. We just finished the ARMA show in Baltimore. The show was great, with lots of traffic to the booth. The iPod giveaway was a huge sucess at the show, but the "best in show" was the Entium Pedometers. They were a huge hit with the visitors.

We did get work done as well. We met a lot of great people from companies all around the world. We gained some insights into their "issues" and how they are looking to solve them.

One additional positive note was that unlike past years almost every company we spoke to has a Records Program in place. Almost all of the people that stopped by said that they were at the show to learn about what was happening in the industry.

I'll continue to update you on the presentation as it evolves.

Well we've hit a bit of a rough patch with Open Text. It seems that they wanted a case study to be included in the presentation. However, the presentation is not structured for a case study.

I'm attempting to put together a view of the various ISO standards that impact the implementation of any ECM system. As you can imagine there are a large number of them. Organization have used some ISO standards for their implementation, but not all of them. Alternatively they may have used them without knowing the basis for their decisions. This presentation is intended to give everyone a view from the top.

Good news is that Open Text has seen the value in this view from the top and decided not to have a case study as a part of the presentation! Whew.

Now the real work begins .......

Lead Up to Open Text's LiveLinkUp

Well LiveLinkUp is only a few weeks away (October 22-26, 2007) and I've been accepted to speak at LiveLinkUp (https://livelinkup.opentext.com/orlando/2007/). My topic will be "From ISO to Implementation". This will be a look at the various ISO standards that an organization must use to implement an Enterprise Class ECM System.

I'll post more as I start to develop this presentation and some of the thought processes that have gone into it.