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Records Management in a Web 2.0 World

Records Management in a Web 2.0 World

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My colleague James Lappin (Thinking Records Ltd) recently hosted and facilitated a podcast with me, Steve Baily – senior adviser on records management issues for JISC infoNet and author of the hugely successful and thought-provoking book ‘Managing the Crowd, rethinking records management for the web 2.0 world‘ and Elizabeth Lomas, PhD Researcher at Northumbria University. I was indeed in esteemed company! For me this was an opportunity to air the views I had previously blogged about regarding a perceived disinterest or…

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EDRM and Web 2.0 – where two worlds collide.

EDRM and Web 2.0 – where two worlds collide.

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Possibly at a slight tangent to the collaboration and knowledge management memes that I normally write about, and no doubt exposing my roots in Information Management, I’ve been doing some research into the potential dichotomies between the highly structured and organised world of document and records management, and the relatively unstructured (some might almost say ‘anarchic’) world of Web 2.0.  I’ve been particularly intrigued by how Information and Records Managers working for public sector organisations seem to be oblivious to…

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Web 2.0 vs Accessibility

Web 2.0 vs Accessibility

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I attended an “Enterprise 2.0” event last week where Ian Lloyd gave a very thought provoking presentation on the impact of Web 2.0 on accessibility. Ian is a web developer working for the Nationwide Building Society, and clearly knows his stuff when it comes to designing websites that will accommodate assistive technologies – such as screen readers, voice to text and screen magnifiers. This was particularly relevant to the work I’m presently doing in building on-line environments for support of…

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