Monday musings

It's a Monday!! Unlike the poor folks suffering from Hurricane Dennis, it's extremely hot and too dry here today in Colorado.

Today, we're progressing on the scanning of final reports. It's amazing the number of issues with this process. Of course, having over 450 reports from the last 20 years makes it exciting. New issues that we discussed today are: 1) what's our retention policy (should we keep all reports, our when do we drop them from the list), 2) do we also want to archive periodicals and newsletters, and 3) how to get a list of all our projects from the beginning of our organization to today.

One interesting thought - Most of our new communications efforts focus on electronic (e-mail and web). Print publications and conferences have basically stayed the same. From surveys, we find that people still want options (print and electronic). With people being overloaded with electronic media, what will be the next trend? From a long-term perspective, are we moving in the right direction?