Wi-fi internet access for delegates at the 2008 RMS Conference

Delegates to the 2008 RMS Conference will have free access to wi-fi throughout the conference, wherever they are within the Conference hotel.
Delegates will be given the pass code to the Sheraton Hotel's wi-fi upon registering for the conference.

This year's Conference will be blogged about more than any previous RMS event. If you have a blog, bring your laptop or use the cybercafe at the venue to blog your thoughts and comments.

And the RMS exec will be blogging too: Keith Gregory has adopted the mantle of the exec's conference blogger. He and others will be posting news and comments to this blog as the conference proceeds .

Thank you to TNT for sponsoring delegate wi-fi access.

Early booking deadline reminder

The prestigious 11th Records Management Society Conference, ‘Records Management: The State of the Art’ is fast approaching and the early booking deadline is Friday 8th February. If you would like to secure your place at the discounted rate, please book your place by clicking here.

The Conference programme is available to view and download online by clicking here.

Don't forget the post conference master classes that are taking place on Wednesday 23rd April at the Sheraton Grand Hotel. For further details please click here.

We look forward to welcoming you to Edinburgh.

RMS Conference Committee

Blogs and blogging

I'm running a session at conference on blogs and blogging and the relationship between Web2.0 technologies and records management.

These issues will become increasingly important over the coming year(s) so it's great we will have the space to discuss them, air our views and perhaps even find some agreement on how we move the agenda forward.

The questions I'd like to consider are

• how useful, interesting and important are blogs/Web2.0 technologies?
• can we build genuine online communities of interest?
• is this the start of a new revolution in records/information/knowledge management?

I don't expect everyone to experts in the subject. (I'll even give you a quick overview of how they all work if necessary.) But it should be a lively, interesting and, I hope, important debate for the future of records management...so join us.

Red Kite