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OhioERC Free November Webinar

October 13, 2022October 13, 2022 by Nathan Owens

The OhioERC is proud to offer a free webinar presentation Shifting to a Remote Workplace: Records Management Best Practices and Lessons Learned While Working from Home on Friday, November 4th. Records management and educating your offices about record retention requirements is more important than ever when considering the management of organizational records in a remote work setting. Learn about records management program implications and lessons learned while working from home for some ideas to carry forward to better support a remote work environment for public agencies. Topics include perspectives from several public work environments and includes discussion on the management of records on online conferencing platforms that need to be managed.

There will be a morning and afternoon session; both having the same content. To register, please use the following links:

10:00-11:30 AM EST: https://ohiohistory.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7DCKRvz6RMut-nMv-dP4Fw

1:30-3:00 PM EST: https://ohiohistory.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zfy3TrBJSo6-d8fiWdDZDg

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at [email protected].

OhioERC-Sponsored Presentation for Electronic Records Day

September 27, 2022September 27, 2022 by Nathan Owens

The Ohio Electronic Records Committee is partnering with Miami University, Greene County (OH) and Preservica to host a free Electronic Records Day webinar. Please share this with your organizations and others involved in records practices as well as administration, IT.

The event is Monday, October 10th from 12:00-1:00 EST and features Lori Ashley (Preservica) and Robin Heise (Greene County). Click here to register

“Here Today, Gone Tomorrow“

Government information ecosystems are complex and dynamic while recordkeeping obligations are long-standing and robust. Public sector institutions at all levels increasingly rely on electronically stored information created in dozens of applications and managed in hundreds of file formats to deliver services and provide access to government records. But digital information is more fragile than its analog counterparts and subject to ever changing technology environments. This reality can put the authenticity and usability of long-term (10+ year retention) and permanent electronic records at risk.

This presentation sponsored by the Ohio Electronic Records Committee will compare and contrast document management systems and digital preservation systems. The major workflows used to future-proof permanent and long-term electronic records and their essential metadata will be described. A Records and Archives Management case study from Greene County will be shared to bring to light essential differences between document management and preservation systems. We hope to see you join us!

Fall Online Training Coming!

September 9, 2022 by Nathan Owens

Mark Your Calendars! The Ohio Electronic Records Committee is tentatively planning an online training for November 4^th, 2022 concerning records management best practices in the remote work environment. Records management and educating your offices about record retention requirements is more important than ever when considering the potential of records being handled outside of your office setting as well as how new technology, like Microsoft Teams and Zoom, may introduce new record retention complexities.

Additionally, the OhioERC would like to hear from you regarding what future trainings you would like to see offered from our group. Please fill out the following poll for us to collect your feedback:

As always too, please go to our Trainings/Events page to see our interactive training modules and past presentations.

For OERC's next training module, what topic would be of greatest interest to you?