Getting Help: What a Third-Party Vendor Can – and Can’t – Do to Help You Meet NARA’s 2019 Records Management Deadline
Federal agencies are facing pressing document management mandates from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Specifically, NARA has been tasked with guiding federal agencies toward meeting the Managing Government Records Directive, using existing technology [...]
Understanding Capstone and Its Role – and Its Limitations – in Meeting NARA’s 2019 Records Management Deadline
In 2013, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provided "Guidance on a New Approach to Managing Email Records" known as the Capstone approach. NARA intended the Capstone approach to provide a systematic and simplified [...]
Why Agencies Should Care: How Meeting NARA’s Deadline Will Benefit Your Team
The Office of Management and Budget and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) have mandated that federal agencies transition to managing all permanent records in electronic format by the end of 2019. This requirement [...]
Spotlight: Assessing Current Inventory – Considerations and Best Practices
NARA's deadline of December 31, 2019 for federal agencies to be managing all permanent records in electronic format is rushing toward us. Where does your agency stand in its preparations? If you're not sure, your [...]
Action Plan 2019: What Your 2019 Records Management Efforts Need to Cover
At last, we have hit the year that federal agencies are expected to fully complete their transition to managing records electronically. Per the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) itself: “By December 31, 2019, all [...]
State of the Transition: Are U.S. Government Agencies Ready to Meet NARA’s 2019 deadline?
The number of electronic records in government has skyrocketed in just a few decades. Former President Clinton's White House generated 32 million emails; former President Obama's generated over 300 million. That exponential increase is why [...]
Govern from the Cloud
If you don’t already believe everyone is jumping on the cloud-computing bandwagon, it’s time to change your tune: Even major government agencies are making the change. The U.S. General Services Administration, Department of the Interior, [...]