As I was noticing the occasional tweets from the MER conference, I started
wondering -- why is the "electronic" needed in between "managing" and
"records"? (This isn't a crack at Bob Cohasset or the conference itself,
which I've always wanted to attend.)  

We're a good 15 years into the realization that electronic documents,
emails, blogs, maybe even Tweets are all records. As I've learned over the
years (from many of you in fact), the content makes the record a record. The
container is (somewhat) irrelevant. 

And, yeah, we're guilty of it too. AIIM has both the "Electronic" RM
programs and the Electronic Records Management community as well
(www.ermcommunity.org). 

So why is that "Electronic" still needed? 

Is it just a habit now or is there still a mindset that the only real
records are ones you can put your hands on, not bits and bytes accessible by
fingers on a keyboard?

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