A trivial but purposeful experiment in records

Here's an experiment - it's a slow burn

Remember everyone's birthdays - put a cupcake on their desk with a candle on it for every person in the organisation's birthday with a card that says "records - we remember."

When everyone else around them forgets and the records team remembers the message will start to get through.

The thing about this exercise that I like, is that it will actually illustrate the core value of records - because the only way we'll be able to be organised for it, is to keep records about people's birthdays in a systematic manner so that we can be organised for their birthday.

To me, this is always the core value of records.

We keep them so that we can organise ourselves to take action in the future.

Remembering birthdays is trivial, but the machinery needed to do it is the same as what's required to renew the organisations domain, submit their corporate reporting, review and provide contract reporting - and it's all records.

If only we acted like it.