Social media archiving policies must be realistic

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This is an article by Molly Bernhart Walker posted on the website fiercecontentmanagement.com

As the title of the article states, this writing discusses social media archiving policies, and provides advice as to how to make them practical.

The article points out, "Since October 2010 the National Archive and Records Administration has instructed federal agencies to archive social media records, including those hosted by third parties. What's more, Gartner predicts that by 2013 half of all companies will have to produce social media content as part of an e-Discovery request, says Jesse Wilkins, director of systems of engagement for AIIM International."

The article points out, "Charley Barth, director of records at the Department of the Navy, says simply taking a "snapshot" after social media content goes live won't create a sufficient archive. "There's not a lot of value there when the links don't work and you can't really drill down into the content. It's just a picture of a page," said Barth while speaking Oct. 17 at ARMA."


The article further states, "According to Barth, the report to NARA recommended that agencies:

• Copy and paste social media record content into a Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Word document and in a .pdf format and save it to records management application;
• Copy and paste social media record content into a Microsoft Word document and in a .pdf format and save it to a share drive, hard drive or something other than the RMA;
• Use a really simple syndication (RSS) feed to collect information into an RSS aggregator, such as Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Reader;
• Use an RSS feed to pull information into an email account and save the record in an RMA; or
• Use one of several commercial, social media archiving tools embedded within the social media site or sold commercially."