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 Sometimes by intent, but often by neglect, electronic information is not destroyed or thrown away like old and outdated papers.
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.
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