Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
My work now has Microsoft Lync, an instant messaging system intended for internal communications. It\u2019s an alternative to inter-office mail, e-mail, fax, telephone or walking down the hall to talk to somebody at their desk.<\/p>\n
Why do we need it another form of internal communication? E-mail is retained on servers which costs money, and retained e-mails are discoverable in lawsuits. Instant messages won\u2019t tie up storage space on servers (which will save money) and won\u2019t be discoverable in litigation.<\/span><\/p>\n
Except . . . we\u2019re government. EVERYTHING we do should be discoverable, that\u2019s the point of Sunshine Laws. And if we don\u2019t want to pay to store e-mail, then don\u2019t store it \u2013 establish a retention policy and delete everything after a short time.<\/span><\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
At my most recent employer, every Lync session started with a notice that *everything* \u00a0you wrote and presented was being recorded.<\/p>\n
But it wouldn’t astound me if Ramco used Lync to skirt the rules…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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