I agree with you here Gus.  I prefer pure electronic info mgmt.; without
printing to paper and thus eventually imaging some of it back to
digital.  It is more challenging to implement and propogate pure
electronic info mgmt here in a municipal government organization with
the citizenry and constituents' expectations and relative state of
technology than it was with my previous employer, a Fortune 100 energy
corporation.  Nevertheless, we do the best we can with what we have...,
and given the limitations of the current situation.

"Image everything" is no smarter an idea now than was "microfilm
everything" proponents some 25 years ago.   Each potential application
must be weighed on its own merits.  What is rewarding is to see the
proverbial "lightbulbs" go off in people when you point out that a
document was created electronic, somebody printed to paper, now they
want to image it.  I train them to manage it upfront in the lifecycle,
and avoid all the high costs of doc prep and imaging on the back side. 

Best regards, Steve
Steven D. Whitaker, CRM
Records Systems Manager; City of Reno

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What I'm prejudiced against is when a technology is touted as the end
all to end all of every single business information management
problem.
That's the way imaging was first presented...and it remains that in
many
people's minds today.  How many horror stories did we hear or live the
first few years as imaging emerged on the scene...where vendors were
encouraging folks to image "everything"...

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