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Article: Toward more picturesque 'RIM speak'.(IN FOCUS: A Message from the Editors)(records and information management)
- Article from:
- Information Management Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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Like records and information management (RIM) professionals, magazine editors constantly look both forward and backward in time, planning for future projects and leveraging what has been learned from past ones--all the while keeping a pulse on the present. Editors and RIM professionals alike always seem to be fighting a battle against deadlines, so they work to do things right the first time around to avoid repeating mistakes and wasting time.
The key challenge to getting things right in almost every profession is using the right words. Doctors need to write precise prescriptions; lawyers need to write exacting contracts; RIM professionals need to employ the ...