Promote RIM Within Your Organization!

Managing records and information is an essential element to the competitiveness and accountability of an organization. Too often, RIM professionals are the unsung heroes of the organization. It’s time to promote the value of RIM!

These materials have been developed to help you promote the value of proper records and information management practices within your organization. The following tools have been created to help promote the importance of RIM in any organization.

Want to show the world how great your RIM program is? Apply today for the 2011 ARMA International Cobalt Award!!

 

RIM Poster

New RIM Poster 2011!

Is there a GAP in your information governance? Not if we can help it!

As you know, Information is one of the most vital, strategic assets organizations possess, and is contained in your organization’s business records. As an information management professional, it’s essential that you educate your colleagues on how the Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles® can help fill your organization’s gaps in governance.

In honor of RIM Month, use this poster to help senior executives and all of your organization’s employees understand that you’re here to facilitate good governance. Hang these in the office, or purchase our customized version with your logo and contact information. Posters are 24X18 inches (landscape). For more details and to purchase the poster, click here.

Postcards

These 8.5 x 5.5 inch postcards help senior executives and all of your organization’s employees understand that you’re here to help. The handy cards are just the right size to hand out, use as a leave-behind in a meeting, or post in conspicuous locations to help get your message across. Use the back of the card to write notes, reminders, or contact information for your department. Click here to purchase your set of 25 now!

 

2011 RIMM Logo

2011's RIMM logo for use on your RIMM promotional materials.

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ARMA Bookstore Specials

RIM Posters

Think Outside the Box Was $5 / Now $2

TMI Was $5 / Now $2

RIM is in Your Hands Was $5 / Now $2

Down the Drain Was $5 / Now $2


Bookstore Items

Guideline for Outsourcing Records Storage to the Cloud

Implications of Web-Based, Collaborative Technologies in Records Management

Records and Information Management: Fundamentals of Professional Practice

Managing Electronic Records

Records Management: Making the Transition from Paper to Electronic

Managing Records and Information Programs

Glossary of Records and Information Management Terms

Controlled Language in Records and Information Management

New to the Records@Work Pamphlets:

They're brief, easy-to-read, and specifically targeted to non-records management staff. This is the brochure series that will have everyone in your organization reading and learning about the value of solid records and information management.

How Should I File Information? Non-Member price: $15 /Member price: $10

What Is a Legal Hold? Non-Member price: $15 /Member price: $10

What Information Is Private? Non-Member price: $15 /Member price: $10

What Information Should I File? Non-Member price: $15 /Member price: $10


ARMA Education

Leveraging GARP ® to Achieve Organizational Excellence   
                        

This course provides first-hand, real-world guidance from an experienced Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles® (GARP®) consultant on how to use the eight principles and the GARP® Maturity Model to identify your records and information management program’s risks, gaps, and desired outcomes. It demonstrates how GARP® compliance can help safeguard organizations from the kinds of regulatory and ethical dilemmas that can ultimately shut a organization’s doors.

“Leveraging GARP® to Achieve Organizational Excellence” explains in detail which principles to address first and where you should allocate your budget dollars and resources as you work to become GARP® compliant. It uses real-world scenarios to illustrate how important context is when it comes to a GARP® analysis.Learn how to package GARP® as part of your professional policy and use it to engage your senior management. See the common missteps that organizations make – and the disastrous consequences that can result – when organizations fail to conform to GARP®.

This online course is full of practical, real-world solutions you can put to work immediately within your organization. Each section contains learning objectives, audio, video, and review questions, as well as printable course notes for easy offline reading and review. Approximately 5 hours.


Non-Member price: $499/ Member price: $349

Click here to register.


 

Campaign-In-A-Box

The Campaign-In-A-Box is a combined set of tools designed to provide you with all of the information necessary to create and execute a program that will promote the importance of records and information management to your entire organization.

Interviews

These interviews are proof of what a good records management and RIM promotion plan looks like as well as what can happen if your organization does not do a good job of making RIM a priority.

Cobalt Award Winner Podcast
2010 Cobalt Award winners Prudential Financial discuss secrets to success you can implement today!
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Promoting the Value of RIM
Laurie Carpenter, Records Manager for Koch Industries, talks with us about how they promote the value of RIM in April and throughout the year.
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Records Management at Proctor & Gamble – A Committment to Good Governance
P&G has been named among the top five Most Admired Companies in 2006 by FORTUNE magazine and P&G ranks as the third Most Admired Company globally. In this free download, learn more about P&G's records management program – a program recognized for its excellence with the 2005 Iron Mountain / ARMA International Award for Overall Excellence in Records and Information Management.

Former Enron Executive Talks About Risk (PDF 13 KB)
Lynn Brewer, a former Enron employee, discusses her experience during the Enron implosion and the lessons every organization can take from it.
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A Successful Records Management Program Starts with Collaboration (PDF 12 KB)
Michael Peterson, Chief Strategy Advocate for the Storage Networking Industry Assocation, talks about the importance of collaboration when implementing a records management program.
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Articles

Marketing Your RIM Program

IM: Invaluable New Business Tool or Records Management Nightmare

The Corporate Records Conundrum

E-mail, Voice Mail, and Instant Messaging: A Legal Perspective



   

 
     
 

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