ARMA European Region Briefing - Join us for a complimentary seminar organised by ARMA International and Autonomy in London on 9 February

Heightened oversight, explosive growth and complexity of information, along with the rapidly growing demands to comply with international laws and regulations are taxing organisations’ abilities to control valuable corporate information. How you manage your organisation’s records and information can have a huge impact on its success.


Join us at this meeting to find out about records management and information governance standards and best-practices, including the latest on GARP, Moreq 2010 and how to handle Web 2.0, from experts including Galina Datskovsky, President Elect at ARMA International, Jon Garde, Author of Moreq 2010 and Gavin Siggers, Director of ARMA’s European Region. There will also be plenty of networking opportunities and we hope you will join us for drinks after the event.

Provisional Agenda

• Registration & Coffee
• Welcome - Gavin Siggers, Director, ARMA Europe
• Generally Accepted Records Management Principles (GARP) - Galina Datskovsky, President Elect, ARMA International 
• Networking Break 
• Moreq 2010 – Jon Garde, Author of Moreq 2010
• Outsourcing Records and Information to the Cloud  - Galina Datskovsky, President Elect, ARMA International 
• Closing - Gavin Siggers, Director, ARMA Europe 
• Drinks/refreshments

Please note spaces for this seminar are limited. Register early to avoid disappointment.

To register, please click here

Call for Volunteers: GARP® Steering Task Force

ARMA International's task force structure is built to give you the opportunity to volunteer for targeted, specific opportunities to help the association, the profession, and your own development in a time-sensitive manner. Thank you for considering this volunteer opportunity!

The ARMA Board of Directors has chartered the GARP® Steering Task Force in February 2010, to guide the development of new products and services relative to GARP® Principles and the GARP® Maturity Model. The task force leader is specifically seeking individuals with business development and strategic planning expertise, who can provide oversight and input to the development of new products and services. The GARP® Steering Task Force is expected to charter sub-task forces to accomplish specific pieces of work. However, the members now being sought will provide strategic direction to the overall initiative, within the Board-approved parameters.

Task force members will be asked to serve for one (1) year, with the potential for being re-appointed for a second year if their particular skill sets are still needed. The work of the task force will be conducted almost exclusively by conference call, email, and use of collaborative web sites. There may be a meeting at the San Francisco conference, for those already in attendance.
The task force is seeking three (3) individuals with expertise in the following areas:

• Business development and rollout of new products/services
• Strategic planning and forecasting
• International base and/or perspective

If you are interested in being considered for this task force, please submit your resume and a short (150-200 words) description of why you would like serve on this task force.
Submission deadline: March 15, 2010
Interested candidates should contact:
Diane Carlisle, CRM Director, Professional Resources
Send E-mail

ARMA International Challenges Organizations to Implement Better Recordkeeping - Announcing the Generally Accepted Recordkeeping PrinciplesSM

Records are the foundation of compliance and the key to success for organizations – big or small, public or private – in any industry. Litigation professionals, too, are becoming painfully aware of the need to manage e-mail at an organizational level in order to mitigate risk during the legal discovery process. Businesses are also coming to realize greater efficiency and cost savings due to better information management. As a result, recordkeeping best practices have become a process and skill needed by not only records professionals, but by every employee.

Due to the exponentially expanding volume of information available and the pressing need to manage information correctly, ARMA International is pleased to announce a set of Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles (GARP) SM.

Through these principles, ARMA International provides a framework for guidance in implementing information management programs to help business leaders, legislators, the judiciary, and other stakeholders understand and address the key components of records and information management as a discipline and as a best business practice. The principles were developed from related information management legislation, the combined experiences of the task force members, applicable ARMA International, ANSI, and ISO standards, the recommendations of ARMA International’s more than 11,000 professional practitioners, and case law.

Each of the eight principles has an expanded description containing detailed information on how to ensure organizations are meeting the criteria for a sound information management program. These descriptions, as well as other information on the principles, can be found at www.arma.org/garp.

The eight Generally Accepted Recordkeeping PrinciplesSM are:
Accountability
Integrity
Protection
Compliance
Availability
Retention
Disposition
Transparency

Using these generally accepted principles as a guide helps to ensure that the company’s most important assets, their records, are used correctly to support the organization’s essential activities such as budgeting, planning, demonstrating compliance with laws and regulations, and other day-to-day operations.

A task force was initially formed to help encapsulate these principles. It was comprised of a multi-disciplined group of widely respected professional practitioners at the highest levels of their professions. ARMA International members and non-member stakeholders then reviewed the proposed principles and submitted comments that were taken back to a task force for review and consideration. This same task force will continue to monitor legislation and case law and will recommend changes to the principles when appropriate. The principles have been approved by the ARMA International Board of Directors.

For more information about the Generally Accepted Recordkeeping PrinciplesSM or ARMA International, please visit www.arma.org.

Call for Comment: ARMA International's Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles

ARMA International’s Board of Directors has approved a set of generally accepted recordkeeping principles (GARP) for member and public comment. These principles will serve as a framework for guidance in implementing information management programs. The defined set of principles will help business leaders, legislators, the judiciary, and other stakeholders understand and adress the key components of records and information management as a discipline and as a best business practice.

You can view and comment on the proposed principles at www.arma.org/GARP. Please use the e-mail address at the bottom of each page (garp@arma.org) for any comments regarding the supporting principle narratives. The comment period for GARP will end on Friday, March 6.
On behalf of ARMA International and the profession, thank you in advance for your participation in this exciting endeavor.