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Microsoft will acquire Powerset

Jul 012008

Powerset, the semantic search engine that only (for now) searches Wikipedia, announced that Microsoft will be acquiring it. May I be the first to speculate on names? Oh, let me think… MicroSet? PowerSoft?

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The CIA uses wikis and blogs? | Knowledge Management

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Jun 152008

Doug Beizer wrote an interesting article called, CIA first scoffs at, then embraces, collaborative technologies, in Washington Technology, about how the CIA has adopted web 2.0 / enterprise 2.0 technologies. In addition to the CIA’s wiki, called Intellipedia, its “[t]ools include intelligence blogs, Web-enabled shared drives, photos and a video service similar to YouTube.”

Beizer quotes Sean Dennehy, Inetellipedia evangelist at the CIA, who noted, “At this point, getting greater adoption is more a cultural problem than a technology problem.” This is no surprise to KM folks. Technology is about changing the way people do things. And as I wrote in Innovation is not a four-letter word, people resist change.

Stewart Mader also covered the article nicely on Grow Your Wiki in Why Does the CIA Keep Top Secret Intelligence in a Wiki? It’s worth a read.

It’s hard to believe that even the intelligence community is on the collaboration bandwagon. But, then again, maybe it’s all just a big government conspiracy.

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Twitter Twist: Tweet 2 Tweet

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May 192008

Tweet 2 Tweet solves the problem of Facebook Wall withdrawal. As the SheGeeks* blog points out, if you like Twitter, but miss the “Wall-to-Wall functionality on Facebook…. This feature allows users to see only messages between [two] people. There has been no easy way to access the same functionality on Twitter nor through any of the plethora of third party Twitter conversation trackers, until now.”

*Thanks to Robert Scoble

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Orrick Chooses Recommind

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May 172008

Here’s the press release about Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe’s deployment of Recommind’s MindServer(TM) Legal platform.

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Law Firms Giving Blogs the Stamp of Approval

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Apr 172008

Here’s an interesting article from Gina Passarella on law.com about how (externally-facing) blogs are gaining steam in law firms (even large ones). Blogging is great for marketing purposes, but there are other uses for blogs internally. See: To Blog or Not Blog Inside Your Law Firm…

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Knowledge Management for Law Firms :: In case you missed it… Feb 24 - Mar 1, 2008

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Mar 022008

Here are some of my favorite legal knowledge management & technology blog posts and other items from the week of February 24 – March 1, 2008:

Google Sites – Bringing it all together (The Official Google Blog – Scott Johnston)
5 Free Screencasting Apps for Creating Video Tutorials (MakeUseOf.com – Travis Quinnelly )
Tim Berners-Lee Says the Time for the Semantic Web is Now (Read Write Web)
FriendFeed (Library Stuff – Steven M. Cohen)
Video Chatting – Do You Do ooVoo? (Slaw – Connie Crosby)
JD Supra Launches Tomorrow (Robert Ambrogi)

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Knowledge Management for Law Firms :: In case you missed it... Feb 10-16, 2008

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Feb 192008

Here are some of my favorite legal knowledge management blog posts and other items from the week of February 10 – 16, 2008:

2/15 – Launch of Enterprise 2.0 Task Force – David Hobbie of caselines gives us a look at what they’re doing (and their approach) over at Goodwin Procter with wikis, blogs, LinkedIn, Facebook, RSS, SharePoint, etc.
2/15 – Knowledge Management Snapshot for 2008 – Ron Friedmann of Strategic Legal Technology summarized a nice list of what participants of a recent KM function noted as their top KM priorities for 2008.
2/13 – Putting the Social into Social Media – Doug Cornelius of KM Space reflected on real-life connections brought about by online activity.
2/15 – Do Wikis belong in Law Firms? – (also posted here) – Connie Crosby shared a really nice slideshare presentation on Wikis in law firms.
2/12 – Wikis in Law Firms – An Alternative View – Ted Tjaden sparked a hot discussion in the comments about how (or if) wikis belong in law firms.
2/12 – iConnect at Deloitte – Jack Vinson of Knowledge Jolt with Jack wrote about Deloitte’s new expertise location application that monitors email traffic and extracts key words and phrases from communications.
2/10 – GoogleDocs – Collect Spreadsheet Data via Email – Cindy Chick of LawLibTech tells us how to use Google Docs to create a form and collect the data from email recipients. More info from the Google Docs Blog.
On a wiki-related note, but from last week, before I started “In case you missed it…,” Doug Cornelius of KM Space, is looking for law firm wiki stories and speakers for a panel on the use of wikis in law firms to be presented at the ILTA conference in August. Details here.