Archiving Social Media - Comprehensive Resources on GovLoop and Beyond

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Comment by Rachel R. Hawley on February 25, 2010 at 12:59pm

Thank you so much! Abiding by public records laws in the ways of retention, is the main reason my municipality has yet to move forward to social networking!

Comment by Andrew Krzmarzick on February 25, 2010 at 10:24am

Excellent resources - thank you, Doug! In fact, I've updated the blog post above to include them.

Comment by Doug Robinson on February 25, 2010 at 10:16am

Managing, archiving and preserving born digital government content and records in any format is a challenge. For additional perpspective see our NASCIO brief - http://www.nascio.org/publications/documents/NASCIO-E-RecordsChalle...

Both Massachusetts and Utah have addressed this issue. Example see -
http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=mg2utilities&L=1&sid=massgov2&a...

Comment by Andrew Krzmarzick on February 24, 2010 at 4:22pm

You're welcome, Barbara. In some ways it's new, in some ways, I'm thinking many of the requirements for email and voicemail - other forms of digital content - would still apply...except for the sheer proliferation of content. So maybe it's the amount vs. the content itself.

Comment by barbara haven on February 24, 2010 at 4:10pm

Thanks for sharing these.

Now I'm preparing my tax personally, so I was gathering the document retention guidelines I found for my personal information. I hoped to find similar, definite guidelines for social media and other information at work in government.

Social Media Retention and even website retention is new for governments.