Storing your e-documents

Although you'd hardly know it by looking at your desk, we are already living in a paperless age. More than ever it's likely that a digital document will cross your virtual path, rather than an interloping paper document cluttering up your office, your newspaper basket, your mailbox, or your junk drawer. They often go unnoticed, but their presence, or more accurately, their absence won't go unnoticed for very long, especially if they're critical documents, like life insurance forms, medical forms, or legal forms.

This raises an issue when your computer starts to fill up, or heavens to mergatroid, disaster strikes, and an errant static charge erases your hard drive. E-document storage is a big issue, and big business.

Some websites like docassist.com offer document storage services where you can print, fax, capture, and store any document in your company. Storing the document on a hard drive instead of your office provides a trade-off in security and convenience over the paper format. Doubling up - keeping a paper copy in your safe, and a virtual copy online is probably the most secure, but also somewhat redundant, and it might create a headache when dealing with many similar documents.

One advantage of purchasing a corporate or site license with AgreementsEtc. is that your document stays in our system, within your account, for the entire year. That means that as long as the document is active, with changes that you make being added to new versions, you won't have to worry about where you put the most recent copy of your agreement. It's in your AgreementsEtc. account. And it's fireproof.