AIIM Introduces Improved Electronic Records Management Training Course
Certificate program from the non-profit industry association helps identify and manage electronic records.
“Organizations are drowning in electronic information such as emails, office documents, instant messaging, images and blogs, and mismanagement of business information can seriously damage organizations but also careers,” says John Mancini, president of Silver Spring, Md.-based AIIM, a non-profit association that provides education, research, and best practices to help organizations find, control, and optimize their information. “Most business records are now born digital and the exponentially increasing volume and types place a huge challenge for organizations.
Mancini recommends that executives ask the following three questions to identify their confidence in electronic records:
- Has your ability to document what your organization did, why you did it, who did it, and when they did it gotten better or worse in the past five years?
- Is your organization able to handle the explosion of digital information and records, or does the continuing influx of information make your organization less and less effective?
- Can your executives, staff, and legal counsel find electronic records when they need it in the daily course of business, as well as when an emergency or more urgent event occurs?
“Increasing awareness is one key reason why AIIM has introduced online and classroom training programs covering how to identify and manage electronic records,” says Bob Larrivee, director of AIIM. “Close to 10,000 IT, business, and information managers have attended the AIIM certificate programs over the last three years, and AIIM’s introduction of a new and improved AIIM Electronic Records Management (ERM) Certificate Program incorporates timely and emerging best practices and technologies for managing electronic records.†More than 50 percent of the program content has been changed or improved based on feedback from AIIM’s Education Advisory Groups.”
According to Larrivee, “Students, who have completed the ERM program prior to now should consider taking this updated version to enhance their skills and strengthen what they learned in the prior course.”
The ERM Certificate Program covers:
- SharePoint, ECM, and ERM solutions for managing electronic records
- Retention schedule and disposition
- Metadata model, classification scheme and access control
- Digital preservation techniques
- Global best practices for implementation ERM
- Emailcapture and retention
- Impact of new content types such as wikis and blogs
The ERM Certificate Program is available at the Practitioner and Specialist levels to students through instructor led classroom sessions and on-line at http://www.aiim.org.training. The Masters program is available through instructor led classroom sessions only. Those wishing to inquire about private classes can contact AIIM directly.
