> From:    Jesse Wilkins <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Call for speakers - past, present, and future!
>
> Hi all, and with apologies for cross-posting and the length of this  
> post,
>
> Several weeks agoon the RECMGMT-L list we were discussing the  
> recent and
> future ARMA conferences: no more paper manuals, presentations to be
> distributed electronically, the issues associated with the flash  
> drives or
> lack thereof, and so forth. I proposed that ARMA move in the  
> direction of
> creating a "conference wiki" with the intent of getting all the  
> speakers to
> put their stuff out on a wiki.

>> Several weeks agoon

Phew, I thought you were talking about me?

If hackers spend enormous time to write SPAM and hack into my  
computer just for the fun of it, (although now they found out they  
can have fun and make money from it) won't people go in and alter  
presentations just to be jerks.

Unless someone polices it, what is the value of something that may be  
tampered with.

I am  not being critical I am just new to wiki (unless you are  
talking about those grass skirts they wear in Hawaii, Oh wait I don't  
know anything about those either.)

I like the idea of having something we could all build on, as the  
Listserv is good at that, and is similar to working on a Task Force  
but is there a way to know that what is there, is what was originally  
there?  White Papers, Web Casts, Pod Casts and now Wiki's.  Shoot I  
can barely make the Conference Call feature work on my phone.

Plus who decides what the right answer is?  We all have 20 ideas on  
how many sheets of paper fit in a 1.2 cubic foot box and no one  
believed me when I told them the number of square feet in a 1000  
cubic feet archive is 10?   So how do you make something this wide  
open work?

But I have a great first topic.  What does a records manager need to  
be capable of, technology wise, to manage the media, and digital  
records that are spun off from the data center?  ARMA had a number of  
great presentations but what do we need to know today?

Hugh Smith

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