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Information Management Forum

At the forum we tackle real problems that people have in Information Management, and discuss solutions and ideas.

Meetings typically run for an hour and include a short presentation and open discussion around an information management issue.

The Information Management Forum aims to:

  • promote best practice in information management
  • raise awareness of information management issues
  • provide time and space for sharing ideas and knowledge.

Join the Information Management mailing list (Monash only) to receive reminders about upcoming events.

Upcoming events

There will be no more IM Forum sessions scheduled for the rest of 2007 as the team that has been bringing you the IM Forum is the same team that is working on the Integrated Collaboration Environment Program. The team is currently concentrating on the Lotus Notes rollout to Monash staff.

We hope you continue to find the resources and information published in the website useful and encourage you to send stories or ideas for better information management to Information Management Inquiries.

If you want to learn more about what's happening with Lotus Notes, We encourage you to review the following information:

a. Contact your local ICE representative

b. On the updated website

Past events

Date Topic Presenter Notes
26 July & 23 August 2007

Agendas that get results, and meetings that make a difference
A discussion about ways to improve the management (including agendas) of groups, committees and other different types of decision-making and advisory forums.

The discussion will include guidelines and tips on the preparation, participation, follow up of actions and communication of outcomes from meetings

Renata Bernarde, Karen Kempe, Katherine Mitchell

Faculty of Business & Economics, Secretariat and Academic Governance Unit 

Presentation (ppt 835kb) 
Please see Slide Notes for further explanations

Notes (doc 51.5kb)

Templates and Additional Resources

21 June and 20 Sept 2007

* IM Forum's 1st Birthday

Keeping the right stuff for Monash - Part 2
How do I know what records and information to keep? What can I safely get rid of?

A presentation on tips to help you understand how long you need to keep records for and what should be sent to the University Archives so we can tell the history of Monash.

Janine Patience, Jan Getson

Records and Archives Services




Presentation (ppt 803kb)

Handout - Keeping the Right Stuff for Monash (doc 157kb)

Notes (doc 36kb)

24 May 2007

Possibilities with your phone
Come and learn about the possible futures of making and receiving phone calls at Monash.

Take the opportunity to try out some of these possibilities, for example making a phone call from your computer and sending text messages to phones from your computer.

Learn and share some tips about managing your current phone and phone calls.

Steve Dart

Kheeran Dharmawardena

Robert Jamieson

Con Sirakis



Telstra Text Buddy - Demo and Install Instructions

MessageNet

April  2007

Bye No session this month.

NA

NA

22 Mar 2007

Integrated Collaboration Environment (ICE) Part 2
A preview of some of the new 'Communicate ' tool set to help you work with Calendar, Email, Contact and To-Do information.
Presenting common collaboration activities using the coming Lotus Notes software.

This session will NOT be repeated at Clayton campus.

Julie Spencer

Desiree Joubert





 

N/A

22 Feb 2007

Integrated Collaboration Environment (ICE) Part 1
Introducing the ICE Programme which will deliver 'Communicate', a new suite of communication and collaboration technology and practices including calendar and email. Today we will demonstrate the current tools for instant messaging and desktop video conferencing.

Ally Dickson

Desiree Joubert

Simran Sohal

N/A

14 Dec 2006

Christmas Stocking Special
A mixture of presentations including short tips to delight and tempt you in Information Management.
Presentations include: pivot table and making sense of large data sets, how to link not attach with email, remote access to your key Monash information, and mapping ideas with Mindmanager.

WIEE Team

N/A

16 Nov 2006 Templates
We can save time and be more productive by using templates. Templates are good for creating common kinds of information e.g. memos, reports, emails. Learn about a template solution for email and some template solutions using MS Word. (Held at Caulfield)

Dickson Muhita

Gerhard Zelenka

Presentation 1 (ppt 345kb), Report template (49kb)

Presentation 2 (ppt 241kb)

Notes (Doc 33kb)

19 Oct 2006 Keeping the right stuff for Monash
How do I know what is a university record and what is not? Guidelines and tips to help you determine what information is a university record and what is a non-record.  And once you can recognise a university record, what do you do with it? (Held at Clayton)
Janine Patience

Presentation (ppt 242kb)

Notes (doc 182kb)

21 Sep 2006 So you want to create a filing/folder structure to organise information? Some thoughts on, and techniques for creating a filing/folder structure to organise your papers, emails and electronic files. (Held at Caulfield)

Simran Sohal

Helen Palmer

Presentation (ppt 664kb)

Notes (doc 36kb)

Sep 2006 You've got email! ...now what?
We get lots of emails and our habits about managing these appropriately can do with some improvement. Learn and share ideas for managing your emails. (Held at Clayton, Parkville, Caulfield and Berwick)
Helen Palmer

Presentation (ppt 1.39mb)

Notes (doc 34kb)

24 Aug 2006 Looking for standards to organise electronic files?
Some suggested standards (i.e. titling files, version control) to test; discussion on the issues that standards must consider. (Held at Clayton)
Helen Palmer

Presentation (ppt 958kb)

Notes (doc 41kb)

20 Jul 2006 Managing my incoming emails
Techniques for processing and organising incoming email; hands-on stuff!
Some mini-presentations demonstrating some techniques in Mozilla Thunderbird. (Held at Caulfield)

Helen Palmer

Presentation (ppt 891kb)

Notes (doc 36kb)

29 Jun 2006 Information management and you
Exploring a real information management issue that individuals face - reaching email quota! How can information management practice resolve this issue? (Held at Clayton)
Helen Palmer

Presentation (ppt 1.32mb)

Notes (doc 46kb)

Would you like to facilitate or present at a gathering? Do you have a topic to suggest? Contact us by email and join us in making this forum a premier place to share ideas and knowledge.

This forum is supported by the Web Workshops Forum.

The Information Management Forum has been established as an initiative of the Working with Information Effectively and Efficiently (WIEE) project.