New Global Standards for Corporate Governance

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ISO has published two new global records management standards:

ISO 30300:2011 - Information and documentation - Management systems for records - Fundamentals and vocabulary and ISO 30301:2011 - Information and documentation - Management systems for records - Requirements   

More information about these and the new ISO/IEC 27035:2011 - Information Technology - Security techniques - information security incident management can be found here.

Future of Social Media at the National Archives

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NARA uses social media itself and provides guidance to federal agencies on the records management challenges they face when they use social media. In November the National Archives representatives described a dashboard for "citizen archivists."  One message is that the Federal Government no longer wonders if it should use social media. The question now is "how?"  And David Ferriero, the Archivist of the US, stated that "Access to records in this century means digital access."  Read more and watch a video at http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/11/national-archives-social-media.html

Microsoft Acquires Skype

Tweet In October Microsoft closed its acquisition of Skype Global for $8.5 billion dollars.  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said they are looking forward to working with the Skype team "to create new ways for people to stay connected ..."  Skype is such a simple, easy tool for the end user, my hope is that Skype won't change too much.  Read more