Web 2.0 and Records Management

I've just spent the last three days at the RMAA Convention, and I'm a little "technologied"-out I must admit. It seems like an illness to place 2.0 after everything at the moment, regardless of whether the discussions had anything to do with the Web 2.0 tools.

But, moving on from this issue, the Records profession does need to come to terms with the new technologies of blogs, wikis, RSS, mashups and the like. There was not a lot of advice about how to do this, what the real implications may be and, most importantly, what we shouldn't have to worry about.

I think that this is really a burgeoning area that needs to be evaluated further, so I'm going to be dedicating a bit of time to brainstorming it here on my blog. Please feel free to pass comment and join in discussion about this.

New Job

In a week's time I will be starting a new role with the State government. This will be one of the most challenging jobs I've had due to the fact that I will have a team of 30 personnel to manage in records, archives, document management, library services and mail services.

I'm getting very excited about the new role, but a little daunted at the same time. I hope to use some of the new GTD skills that I have been learning over the last six weeks and will be using this blog to capture some of the challenges and solutions that I encounter in the job.

Hopefully the crap that I've had to deal with in my current position over the last few weeks has taught me some valuable lessons that I will carry with me into the new role - unfortunately I currently feel that my lesson is to not trust people, hopefully there's a more valuable one underlying that.

Wish me luck.