How you know when a problem has been solved with a record
Two ways -
You've written something down.
You've used something else that someone else has written down (or the digital equivalent).
Record is a verb (and a noun).
If we're doing the verb, we're making the noun.
We do it all day every day, and don't think about it.
At 9:30 this morning I recorded this blog.
Now you're consuming the record I made.
The problem it solves for me is that I want to have a conversation with practitioners all over the world about what records management is about and what records are for.
This blog gets visited by about 1000 people a week.
There is no way I could ever start a conversation with 1000 people a week if I wasn’t using a record to do it.
Hopefully you’ll record your thoughts about this post in the comments, on linkedin or by email and continue the conversation.
AAh now you've got another problem Karl, your records are going to be spread across multiple locations since you've invited folks to comment via their preferred channels. How are you going to keep the records linked? Manually, or will you move the records into whatever is your preferred control mechanism? If you need to search them are you going to have to review each location or do you have federated search?