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Newsletter · By Karl Melrose · English · Official site

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  1. Issue · Aug 9, 2026

    How to make information and records management thinking relevant to our organisations. (opens the original)

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    Focus on becoming the CIO - the ‘Cheap Information Officer’.Every organisation wants the cheap information officer.Thanks for reading Meta-IRM! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</

  2. Issue · Jul 18, 2026

    Time to remove 'context of creation' from the records and information management vocabulary. (opens the original)

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    We have a real problem getting to effective outcomes in information and records management.Somewhat ironically, I think it’s largely a context problem.Thanks for reading Meta-IRM! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<di

  3. Issue · Jul 16, 2026

    The lifecycles we're focused on, and the lifecycles we should be focused on in information and records management (opens the original)

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    When we had files (and custody), we only had to focus on one lifecycle - because people gave us the file, and that’s all there was.Now, things are different, and if there’s one trend that we’ve almost completely ignored, it’s the trend that says ‘most of our organisation aren’t information or records managers’.Thanks for reading Meta-IRM! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<

  4. Issue · Jul 5, 2026

    You can't teach organisations to value information management until you teach them to value information - and why that's a blindspot for us (opens the original)

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    The first question - how do you know whether your organisation values information?The simplest is to watch the work that managers do and how they do it (to note - I’ve made a binary distinction below - value vs. don’t value, it’s more nuanced than that, the distinction keeps it simple).Thanks for reading Meta-IRM! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="email-input" name="email" tabindex="

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