Introduction to the blog

This blog has two important roles in the research project.

The first is to disseminate the project's ideas and findings on a regular basis to the widest possible audience. Our aim is that ongoing dissemination throughout its life will emphasise the urgency of the ERM issue, engage a wide audience in discussion, influence change as the research proceeds, ensure the outputs are timely and can be used as soon as possible, and continue to encourage participation.

The blog’s second role is to collect views and encourage trans-disciplinary debate in response to postings about the project’s activities and interim findings. We will use it to collect data on designing an architecture for ERM over and above the formal planned activities. (See the post Introduction to the Project – label: ACerm project, March 2007 - on the blog). The data will be analysed and the main emergent themes will be included in the findings.

The project team will post at least one item of interest on ERM to the blog each month, along with interim project findings and requests for comments. But we also want to read your views and experiences on managing e-records particularly in relation to the three specific facets under investigation i.e. people issues, understanding work processes and systems and technologies.

Anyone can add a comment to a post. The process is very easy, just follow the simple instructions in the user guide available on the project website http://northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/ceis/re/isrc/themes/rmarea/erm/blog/

There is also a project e-mail address – eb.acerm@northumbria.ac.uk - if you want to contact us off blog.

Please do contribute – the success of this project relies as much on the participants as the project team.

Julie McLeod
Project Director