Everyone,

Time for a progress report. If you've been monitoring the website you know that chapters 8, 9, and 10 are already up. Chapters 3, part of 5, and 7 will be up in a day or so. Some good work is being done. We're moving forward. Margit has suggested that we meet towards the end of September to check progress and consider the real work of this group -- getting on with the revisions to the file plan and disposition manual.

I suggest we meet on Thursday, 24 September at 0900 here at NRL's Quarters A, as before. I'd like to have the meeting a little sooner that that but Henry's going to be out for the best part of two weeks starting the 14th. We need to have him with us when we meet. Margit and I will do an agenda and post it on the website the week bofore the meeting. If you can attend, please let me know in advance.

This will be an important gathering. Don CIO support is vital to this group and we can insure it only by putting a work product on the table by 1 October, as a preliminary to considerably more ambitions and complex work to follow. I urge all of you to support the group by completing and posting your assigned chapters, and attending on the 24th.

There is an additional benefit beyond merely putting a product on the table. As we work with these chapters we'll attain a level of familiarity with the SSIC's and with the SECNAV that will help us when we begin revising them. We are fortunate to have assembled a group of records managers who are pretty familiar with the various records series that comprise the SECNAV.

We need to share insights and ideas.

So, we need to use this website discussion format as a tool. We need to look at it every day, read each others' posts, and respond to coments and queries.

With this in mind, let me conclude that right now, the discussion forum web page is a mess. We've got about 40 messages on it and we have to scroll all the way to the end of the list to see the most recent ones. The site needs purging. I hate to sound like a bad old records manager, but the site needs a disposition scheme. The most recent posts should be at the top, and highlighted in some fashion to indicate their newness. I know I mentioned this a couple of days ago, but if we really get to using this site, it will be important to keep is organized and timely.

Meantime, let's keep working. Plan to attend the meeting on the 24th. Watch for it to be posted on the calender within a day or so.

Regards,

Dean

-- Anonymous, September 04, 1998