In the past few years people in all parts of the organization are beginning to appreciate what effective electronic records management can mean to their business. It might be as simple as finding what you need quickly, or more complex like cost effectively producing records and information to satisfy an auditor, or something in between. How can you capitalize on this new awareness of electronic records management and help your company succeed?

Earlier this month FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, published Regulatory Notice 10-06, Social Media Web Sites: Guidance on Blogs and Social Networking Web sites. This is of particular interest for a couple of reasons. First, there are still a lot of people that believe that social networking sites either aren't used for business, or shouldn't be used for business. Now, this is nothing new - we saw similar positions and assertions around instant messaging, and before that around email, and probably the telephone before that. The publication of this note seems to contradict both of those ideas - clearly the question has arisen as to how financial services firms can use these tools for business.

Between ARMA (www.arma.org/conference/) , Content World (www.opentext.com/contentworld/2009/) , the SharePoint Conference (www.mssharepointconference.com/), and KMWorld (www.kmworld.com/kmw09/), Access Sciences has presented on and heard quite a lot about how to tackle the numerous information management and technology challenges organizations face today.

ARMA 2009 is now exactly one month away. The 2009 ARMA Conference and Exposition officially opens on Thursday, October 15, 2009 at the Orlando World Center Marriott. Access Sciences is pleased to be a part of this excellent conference once again. We will be exhibiting on the expo floor in booth 825 (map) and would love to have you stop by to meet us! Access Sciences is also pleased to present five separate sessions during the conference plus two pre-conference seminars.