by Chase on August 31, 2010
A recent article in Intellectual Property Today illustrates how important social media has already become to our culture in general and how businesses and government agencies specifically will begin to place weight on these forms of digital communication in cases.
Nearly all of our business communications are now electronically created and most are electronically sent and received. In fact, the methods people use to share information have changed drastically over the last fifteen years as websites, blogs, listserves, tweets, text messages, and e-mail have replaced the telephone, fax, letter, in-person meeting, and paper publications. Due to this cultural shift, people are now creating vast quantities of electronic communications and other documents, most of which are being preserved indefinitely in e-mail and electronic file archives, on computer hard drives, and in other electronic storage. Sometimes by intent, but often by neglect, electronic information is not destroyed or thrown away like old and outdated papers.
Expert Blogs and Tweets: Are They Expert Publications?
Social media is rapidly becoming essential to the e-discovery process. There are too many important Tweets, blog posts, blog comments, forum messages, etc… These messages could be the missing link in your case, and with Iterasi’s web archiving products you could make these social media a part of your case.
by Chase on July 20, 2010
Many organizations look at e-discovery preparation in 2 ways: Proactive & Reactive.
Proactive preparation would be maintaining records “along the way,” regularly keeping archives of your emails, documents, web records, etc. This kind of archiving is required in some situations (e.g., keeping records of tax returns for 6 years).
The other e-discovery preparation method is reactive. This is when you need to quickly preserve records for a specific case. You could think of this as the offensive e-discovery play, rushing out to collect and preserve the evidence needed. Whereas proactive preparation would be like playing defense, keeping all your bases covered, protecting and preserving records throughout.
Both these models are commonly used in litigation support around the world. Whatever your e-discovery needs Iterasi’s web archiving tools will help you collect, capture and archive everything you need. For example:
Using Iterasi Proactively: Setup IterasiArchives to automatically capture and archive your corporate websites, blog, employee twitter accounts and Facebook page. When you need the records they are all there to browse through or search and filter by folder, tag, date, etc.
Using Iterasi Reactively: Quickly capture and archive an opponents site with IterasiArchives as evidence for trademark violation. Then you can search through their entire website, find every instance of the violation, and announce suit.
Whatever your e-discovery needs are, Iterasi can help you with your web records. Contact us to find out more.
