The document summarizes alternatives to email for collaboration including instant messaging, blogs, microblogging, wikis, social networking, and online office suites. It discusses how these tools can reduce email usage and increase productivity while addressing records management challenges. The presenter provides guidance on developing policies for social media and collaborative tools and approaches for capturing records from these sources.
4. Email isn’t the best tool to collaborate Other more effective tools available Instant messaging Blogs and microblogging (Twitter) Wikis Social sharing and social networking Using these tools can reduce email usage and increase productivity Alternatives to email
6. It is part text messaging and part blogging, with the ability to update on your cellphone or computer, but constrained to 140 characters. -- Ari Herzog, Ariwriter.com Microblogging (Twitter)
8. Many different applications available Fully-featured to fairly narrow Generally compatible with common Office functionality May default to private or public Web-based office suites Office 2.0
12. Use blogs instead of email to send one-way communications Internal announcements Project updates Feedback on posts or resources Meeting announcements Availability of new resources Knowledge transfer Blogs vs. email 12
13. Microblogging is better for: Time-sensitive or transitory communications Announcement of new or updated documents, presentations, resources, etc. Crowd-sourcing research Environmental scanning Virtual water cooler Microblogging vs. email
14. Wikis are better for: Collaborative authoring – documents, schedules, etc. Drafting meeting agendas and minutes Sharing best practices Wikis vs. email
15. Send links to documents instead of email attachments Ensures everyone is working on the most current version No “attachment spam” Track changes more easily Often provide more capabilities than just email – all in the cloud Office 2.0 vs. email
16. Messaging is available to everyone in the network, not just sender/recipient But can be sent privately or made private if needed Other capabilities available (polling, calendaring across organizations, etc.) Commenting, rating/ranking, social aspects of social networks Social networking vs. email
17. Send links to documents/videos/etc. Especially good for rich media documents Subscribe to updates Embed documents/videos in e.g. blog Social sharing vs. email
21. Our Twitter policy: Be professional, kind, discreet, authentic. Represent us well. Remember that you can’t control it once you hit “update.” Policy 2.0 – in 140 characters Image and quote source: Gruntled Employees http://www.gruntledemployees.com
24. Is the information unique and not available anywhere else? Does it contain evidence of an agency’s policies, business, mission, etc.? Is the tool being used in relation to an agency’s work? Is there a business need for the information? Does it document a transaction or decision? Is it a record?
27. Records management in brief Archive selected items locally Use search queries and monitoring Store selected items locally using search queries or RSS
28. Use the native backup to store locally Store locally using built-in tools
29. Use a third-party service to store locally Store locally using third-party service
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Each part of each organization needs to know what it should save. This will be different for accounting vs. sales vs. engineering vs. management vs. etc. etc. etc.
The newest and most buzz-worthy Web 2.0 entrant these days is Twitter. Ari Herzog’s definition is probably the best: “It is part text messaging and part blogging, with the ability to update on your cellphone or computer, but constrained to 140 characters.” Notice that this definition itself is only 137 characters. Twitter is a combination of instant messaging, email, blogging, and texting, and each of those tools can be used to update Twitter. Users have to be succinct to get a meaningful response in 140 characters, but most Twitter users aren’t really inflicting “txt message speak” on their followers. It just means thinking about what you want to convey.
The next set of tools is sometimes referred to as “Office 2.0”. These are web-based office productivity suites such as Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Thinkfree, and as you see here, Zoho. There are many different applications available, ranging from fairly narrow and simple capabilities to fully-featured solutions (as you can see). Even Microsoft has moved in this direction with its Office Live offerings.
Here is a screenshot of YouTube. You can see some of the social aspects of Youtube here, including ratings; the ability to mark it as a favorite; the ability to subscribe to updates either of the video or by the author; and the ability to share a video in a number of ways including sending a link or embedding it directly in another web application such as a blog or Facebook. Users can also comment on individual videos via text or by posting video responses. Most of the other social sharing tools offer similar capabilities.
The first step many organizations take to manage Web 2.0 is to try to block them. This is unrealistic for a number of reasons.
As we just noted, the records management or communications policies (or both) should address the use of these tools. We’ll look at some examples of policies over the next few slides. At a minimum, the policy should address: Identity, relationship, and transparency – is the account official or unofficial?Security, confidentiality, and sensitive informationComments and responses to commentsResponding to others’ posts on commercial sitesAccuracy and ethicsMonitoring and auditing[twitter]Address these tools in the records or communications policies (or both). [/twitter]
The first step is to determine whether or not something is in fact a record. Just as we know that most email messages are not records, for most organizations their Facebook fan page updates will not be records either. In other words, we have to ask the same questions about these tools that we’d ask about any other type of information:Does it document a transaction or a decision? If it does, it’s probably a record. Is it captured in another form? This is the biggest reason why most social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter wouldn’t need to be captured as records – in most cases they are being used as another transmission mechanism for information stored elsewhere. Now, just because it isn’t a record doesn’t mean it couldn’t be discoverable or a public record and subject to FOIA-type laws. Again, same considerations here as for other types of information. [twitter]Determine whether something is a record or not according to its content and context.[/twitter]
Finally, there are enterprise versions of every Web 2.0 application. These enterprise versions are often available to be hosted inside the firewall, meaning that security is much more robust. Access can be secured to them much more effectively. They can be integrated into the organization’s identity infrastructure – whether Active Directory or something else – such that any change, post, comment, edit, update, etc. can all be tracked and, more importantly, tracked to a specific named user. No anonymous postings here. Of course, you have to pay for an enterprise version, but what you’re really paying for is a level of peace of mind. And you still get many of the same benefits – ease of use, familiarity with the type of tool, rapid and agile collaboration across geographical and time boundaries, etc. You’re just getting a more secure and robust version of it. [twitter]Consider implementing enterprise versions. FB is FB, but internal tools might be more appropriate.[/twitter]
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