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Ask the Admin: Meeting Minutes Retention

Administrative Arts

You don’t indicate if you are talking about Board minutes or membership meeting minutes. According to every reference I can find for document retention, Board minutes should be kept permanently. I didn’t find any specific references to membership meeting minutes in any of the research I’ve done.

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10 E-mail Etiquette Pet Peeves and How to Handle Them

Office Dynamics

Here’s another sampling of readers’ complaints – and how you can prevent or rectify matters. The “oops” factor: If you need more than two paragraphs to cover your topic, you’re better off using the phone, or attaching a Word* file. Getting a few items is fine – but who wants an email with a dozen files attached?”.

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