[Dialogue] Corporate Writing of the 2015 Archive Report to the ICA Board

[Beret Griffith via Dialogue]

Thanks to Tim for sending the report to the listservs.

I forgot to add a message making clear the Archive Report to the Board was
written by a team of people. We worked in a Google document which was
shared with the whole team. After brainstorming content for the report, we
worked first as pair partners to write separate sections of the report.
Then all sections of the report were incorporated into one electronic
document we could all read and edit. Photos taken during the week were
added. The document was written, edited and sent to Ted Wysocki in record
time. Seems so simple now.

What is so remarkable about this? Only a couple of years ago many of us on
the Archives Advisory Council did not have gmail, had not worked in Google
docs, and were resisting taking on yet another new technology. The Tech
Team and the technologically savvy among us persisted; we all changed our
email addresses to gmail; began sharing documents; getting technological
help when necessary; and having face to face meetings once a week...all has
changed the trajectory of archive work.

Remember Corporate Writing with pencils & pens creating many pages for
reproduction. People working on typewriters clicking all night, correcting
with white out, millions of documents produced in the 24 hour print shop
operation with presses running all night, sitting at drafting tables into
the night creating graphics with rulers, black pens (and more whiteout),
sticking down lettering, cutting and pasting photos....

Beret Griffith
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