Mustang, does your work involve much on electronic discovery processes for client work?

Or your reference to metadata is trying to find information using appropriate metadata fields or trace the electronic breadcrumb history of a document?

Honest, I think the most underrated person in the electronic discovery process...is the corporation's records manager. It is this person who, if document management systems and policies are put into place properly, s/he has the widest breadth of knowledge (some of it is highly detailed) for the parent organization on document workflows flowing in and out and within the organization...and to other parties. The person can have unbelievable knowledge of the flow, some content of documentation amongst parties...because alot of the documentation must be centralized and kept for specific number of years by law.

It could be complicated for an external legal team to establish the working interrelationships amongst people where documents are produced, shared, etc. And sometimes those people are no longer with the organization. But if the records manager is around in a client firm long enough, they might hold one of the 'keys' to the search process.

I saw so much as the records/documents manager. And I was granted access to all....emails if I needed it.

Was there litigation for our organization. Several. Large construction projects ..usually are famous for construction claims.

I almost fell asleep during my class on classification and cataloging; it was so boring to me even though I know it's essential. I had much more fun with the classes on research, technology, and government research.

Would it help, yonuh that the new terms that everyone else is grabbing onto (computer technology folks, lawyers, business consultants are claiming some expertise) is now taxonomy (for classification) and metatdata (for cataloguing fields/standards)? Knowledge application/transfer would be for designing the large-scale databases. I know but to get to the bigger stuff that changes organizations, one has to know all the smaller pieces too.

None of my jobs were exclusively backroom technical jobs on just taxonomy and metadata development and tagging. Jobs always included client service work..which was research, group training, planning with other managers..
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Before this "thrilling" book that I'm reading to write a review, I just finished a travelogue book on 2 guys who pedalled a boat across the Atlantic Ocean and then across the pacific to hawaii.

Yes, they pedalled the boat. Just reading and imagining the rigor..unbelievable.
http://www.expedition360.com/reference/historic_overview.htm

Orchid.. They did thid not too too long ago, right? I am 62..and I kinda remember reading about them in the papers. Is this possible? An amazing feat!!! I guess you know how it feels..as you say, they were petalling!! There are still some real live adventurers out there!!! I like that!!

I have just read Jeffrey Deaver´s Road Crosses. Very very goodif you like thrillers..and I love them! And I am reading The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga by Deepak Chopra, md. and David Simon, md. I am reading this for the 2nd time..and it is sooo interesting..especially if you are in to yoga. It gives your yoga so many more demensions..

Yes, the guys did it a few years ago. Actually the book of theirs that I read, I originally bought it for dearie. But he hasn't gotten around to reading it yet.

I am reading DR. Dean Ornish's Program For REVERSING HEART DISEASE, and it is fascinating. I will be incorporating many of the diet changes he advises.

Now I'm reading the companion book which is:

Everyday Cooking with Dr. Dean Ornish
It contains 150 Low-Fat, High Flavor meals.

Also if anyone is looking for Vegan or low to no-fat items, just ask me, I'll give you the info.

I have been reading several good books.

One, BoomerPreneurs, How Baby Boomers Can Start Their Own Business, Make Money and Enjoy Life, by MB Izard, is a great book for helping baby boomers figure out how to start a business if your own. I'll be reviewing it on the NABBW site, but let's just say that as a former coach who helped Baby Boomers start their own businesses, I thought this was a fantastic book...

Another is a thriller that I can't put down. The author's style is very analogous to Stephen King. Called So Cold the River, by Michael Koryta - it's due out in June and I highly recommend it.

A third, Baby Boomer Bust? by Roger Chiocchi is much more rooted in the economic reality of the present. This book's subtitle is "How the generation of promise became the generation of panic." I think I'll review it on the NABBW site, even if it IS written by a man... I find it very thought provoking.

Next I will be reading NABBW-member Linda K. Thomas's memoir, Grandma's Letters from Africa. If I have the story straight, she wrote letters to a newborn grand daughter during three years she and her husband spent working as missionaries in Nairobi... Seeing as more and more of us Boomers are deciding to spend some time doing volunteer work, I think this one ought to be quite interesting...

I would love hear your opinions on Rich Dad/Poor Dad , if you've read it...yes?


Or the author's wife's book, Rich Woman

either one...

I read it anmd have seen his many TV shows. It's a kind of 'feel good' message that anyone can do what he did and become rich if willing to do the work. I think I may have it here somewhere still, if so do you want it? I have to look because my ex takes my books sometime.