Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Future of Social Media at the National Archives

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

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  1. We got a survey asking about restrictions on access to some of these sites. It gets a bit tricky since some agencies restrict access.

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