What Your Business Needs to Know … March 10, 2009

Posted on Dec 17, 2009 in Records Management News

Mass­a­chu­setts Data Pro­tec­tion Law: What Your Busi­ness Needs to Know

Dead­line Extended for Busi­nesses to Com­ply with New, Tough Standards

March 10, 2009 — Linda McGlas­son, Man­ag­ing Editor

For the sec­ond time in four months, the Com­mon­wealth of Mass­a­chu­setts has pushed back the imple­men­ta­tion of its new data pro­tec­tion law — one of the tough­est in the nation.

Yet even with the new dead­line of Jan­u­ary 2010, many of the busi­nesses impacted by these strin­gent data pro­tec­tion require­ments won’t be com­pli­ant, say indus­try experts famil­iar with the new regulation.

Read more about … http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=1261

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Cary F. McGov­ern, CRM

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Document Storage for Personal Wealth

Posted on Dec 16, 2009 in Records Management News

Watch the video … any new ideas for doc­u­ment man­age­ment … here is one …

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Indi­vid­u­als use Mor­gan Street to pro­tect and share all of the infor­ma­tion that’s crit­i­cal to their lives. In addi­tion to finan­cial and legal infor­ma­tion, our clients are using their vaults to pre­serve and share more per­sonal legacy items—photographs, fam­ily trees, mem­oirs, cor­re­spon­dence, per­sonal his­to­ries and fam­ily videos.

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Cary F. McGov­ern, CRM

File­Man

Germany’s top court to re-examine data storage law

Posted on Dec 16, 2009 in Records Management News

EURONEWS 16/12 07:09

Germany’s top court to re-examine data stor­age law

CETGermany’s high­est court has begun exam­in­ing a con­tro­ver­sial data stor­age
law, in what is the country’s biggest ever lawsuit.

The con­sti­tu­tional court must decide the legal­ity of keep­ing phone and
inter­net records after more than 34,000 peo­ple, includ­ing the cur­rent
jus­tice min­is­ter, filed an action to over-turn the law.

Since 2008, Ger­man tele­com firms have been required to store all phone and
inter­net usage for six months — some­thing Police and sup­port­ers say is
cru­cial to help pre­vent ter­ror­ism and crime.

That data is not sup­posed to be recorded, lis­tened to or read, just kept to
see who emailed or phoned whom, and what web­sites were visited.

Oppo­nents how­ever claim the room for abuse or error is huge and more than
10,000 took to the streets of Berlin recently call­ing for the laws
abolition.

Copy­right C 2009 euronews

Read more about …
http://www.euronews.net/2009/12/16/germany-s-top-court-to-re-examine-data-st
orage-law/

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Outsourcing Is Picking up Pace

Posted on Dec 15, 2009 in Records Management News

Out­sourc­ing Is Pick­ing up Pace

Decem­ber 15th, 2009 admin Author: Mansi Aggarwal

Source: articleage.com

BPO Busi­ness Process Out­sourc­ing is a very com­mon phe­nom­e­non these days and like mush­rooms. BPO can be defined as the ful­fill­ment of the respon­si­bil­i­ties of a soci­ety by some out­side agent. For exam­ple, a com­pany can ask or hire an out­side agency to obtain his old records and accounts. The phe­nom­e­non of out­sourc­ing has not been well estab­lished a decade ago. First, some of the jobs rel­a­tively small and low qual­ity as the old record stor­age com­pany were to be issued in the United States. Grad­u­ally with the bud­ding suc­cess and con­fi­dence, valu­able and impor­tant func­tions such as pay­roll, human resources tasks include step – recruit­ing, train­ing and staff devel­op­ment fray. Out­sourced jobs in gen­eral, those who must be per­formed reg­u­larly or daily. The com­pany no longer meets the tasks they used to pro­vide your own. As the rental received from a con­sult­ing firm for the train­ing of new employ­ees, the ads from adver­tis­ing com­pa­nies to make seas. Out­sourc­ing has many advan­tages. Allows a com­pany to iden­tify and focus on their core com­pe­ten­cies. The Com­pany, any other activ­ity that can be dealt with out­side agen­cies to out­source and that much time and energy (for exam­ple, requires the train­ing of new employ­ees to the recruit­ment, mar­ket­ing and man­u­fac­tur­ing of prod­ucts, etc.). This gives the pos­si­bil­ity that the com­pany fully on their core busi­ness, with this com­pe­tency. Along low heat fac­tor cost, is equally impor­tant. Com­pa­nies in the United States and Europe by out­sourc­ing their work in coun­tries like India, Japan and China, huge prof­its are in the form of cost sav­ings. These cost sav­ings are in the form of cheap labor and skilled man­u­fac­tur­ing or pro­duc­tion of goods, etc. This in turn is the result of changes in the wage struc­ture in globe. Out­sourc­ing prove very use­ful and appro­pri­ate at the time of cri­sis econ­omy of a coun­try. When prof­its are in dan­ger and it is essen­tial to reduce costs, out­sourc­ing is per­haps the best way, with­out costs of muti­la­tion, while for the high qual­ity of work. Besides this BPO also big business-oriented work­ing with­out any prob­lems or issues, so they are more focused and stream­lined to improve its non work. There dif­fer­ent sec­tors, which han­dles out­sourced. These are the finan­cial sec­tor, IT, telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions, adver­tis­ing, courier ser­vices and sup­port ser­vices. An exam­ple of this can Spec­traLink is com­mit­ted to the fact that many of the essen­tial tasks (insur­ance, telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions, etc.) for cus­tomers in the United States and Europe. But the out­sourc­ing process is not accept­able to every­one due to its com­ple­men­tary dis­ad­van­tages. Often peo­ple think that leads, pay­roll out­sourc­ing, to the out­sourc­ing of jobs for dehy­dra­tion. It is pre­sumed that an acute unem­ploy­ment for skilled pro­fes­sion­als, pay­roll out­sourc­ing, who cre­ate many nations. There is also the risk of work after the dead­lines and objec­tives and, above all, that the loss of con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion is always lurk­ing in over­seas out­sourc­ing to take. The com­pany also did not get to con­front or directly with their major cus­tomers, even more, depend­ing on their off­shore agen­cies. Like any other pub­li­ca­tion is to com­mu­ni­cate in out­sourc­ing, the econ­omy has the tail of ethics attached to it. How­ever, the truth is that it is expand­ing one of the best ways for a com­pany to min­i­mize its growth and expenses. But a com­pany must not only through the mer­its of out­sourc­ing will be enchanted, but should also take into account the pitfalls.Mansi Gupta writes Out­sourc­ing topics.

Read more about … http://outsource.devdd.com/2009/12/outsourcing-is-picking-pace/

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RIMAW 2010 — Africa’s first Dedicated Information Management & Security Event (27 August 2010, Sheraton Hotels & T owers, Lagos).

Posted on Dec 14, 2009 in Records Management News

Sub­ject: RIMAW 2010 – Africa’s first Ded­i­cated Infor­ma­tion Man­age­ment & Secu­rity Event (27 August 2010, Sher­a­ton Hotels & Tow­ers, Lagos).

http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID=11015847&gid=1815294&trk=EML_anet_qa_ttle-cnhOon0JumNFomgJt7dBpSBA

RIMAW 2010 – Africa’s first Ded­i­cated Infor­ma­tion Man­age­ment & Secu­rity Event (27 August 2010, Sher­a­ton Hotels & Tow­ers, Lagos).

The Records and Infor­ma­tion Man­age­ment Aware­ness Work­shop & Expo­si­tion Africa (RIMAW 2010), where infor­ma­tion man­age­ment and secu­rity pro­fes­sion­als address the trends and chal­lenges of today whilst tap­ping into the huge poten­tials of the IMS mar­ket in Africa.

Con­nect and con­tribute in the unri­valled free edu­ca­tion pro­gramme in Africa, where promi­nent global experts excite debate and indus­try prac­ti­tion­ers share case study expe­ri­ences. Enjoy the vibrant ambiance where inter­na­tional solu­tion providers like you show­case cur­rent and emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies and deliver prac­ti­cal, pro­fes­sional & tech­ni­cal exper­tise that prof­fers solu­tions to infor­ma­tion man­age­ment and secu­rity busi­ness challenges.

Why Exhibit?
RIMAW Africa pro­vides the fastest path to mar­ket your cur­rent prod­ucts or ser­vices to the emerg­ing IM mar­ket in Africa and is the per­fect pro­mo­tional platform/avenue, with cap­ti­vat­ing audi­ence who has imme­di­ate pur­chas­ing needs. Meet directly with your mar­ket and build on cur­rent or new part­ner­ships in the excit­ing and vibrant atmos­phere of RIMAW 2010 Africa.

Reg­is­ter before Jan­u­ary 31, 2010 to enjoy the old rate. We assure you that we will work with you to help you achieve vir­tu­ally all your mar­ket­ing goals at the same time.

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Cary F. McGov­ern, CRM

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