LawyerKM

Here are some of my favorite legal knowledge management & technology blog posts and other items from the week of – March 2 – 8 , 2008:

• Is Technology Failing to Simplify Life? (Tim Ferriss)
• Legal Issues from Facebook and Related Social Media Technologies: Panel Discussion (Slaw – Connie Crosby)
• Apple Aims to Put iPhone Into the Workplace [I hope they succeed] (NY Times)
• 10 guidelines for building your blog’s credibility (Real Lawyers Have Blogs)
• Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond (Read Write Web)
• Social Networking Moves to the Cellphone (NY Times)
• Padded lampposts for distracted texters being tested in London (Engadget)
• What a feed reader can do for you (Caselines – David Hobbie)
• DLA Piper launches trainee internet portal (“…similar … to the popular social networking sites Facebook and Bebo…” Managing Partner Magazine)
• Document Management Systems (DMS) and Knowledge Management (Eric Blue’s Blog)
• Lifestream – Aggregating Youself (KM Space – Doug Cornelius)
• Federal Court to Put Information in Your Pocket (Law.com – Lynne Marek)
• If you must use PowerPoint, study Steve Jobs, Cory Doctorow, or Larry Lessig’s speeches (Scoble on Twitter)

LawyerKM :: Knowledge Management & Technology for Lawyers and Law Firms

Here are some of my favorite legal knowledge management & technology blog posts and other items from the week of February 17 – 23, 2008:

• Best practices in law firm blogging (Real Lawyers Have Blogs – Kevin O’Keefe)
• Will Social Bookmarking Pay Dividends with Search Result Augmentation? (Read Write Web)
• Decent Search v. Good Librarian; Social Search and Iterative Questioning (Caselines – David Hobbie)
• Embed PDFs YouTube-Style with Scribd iPaper (LifeHacker)
• Digg Gets More Mainstream; But Are Their News Sources Too Narrow Now? (Read Write Web)
• LifeHacker Overload (LawLibTech – Cindy Chick)
• Law Library of Congress Adds RSS (Slaw – Steven Matthews)

LawyerKM :: Knowledge Management & Technology for Lawyers and Law Firms

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.

LawyerKM :: Knowledge Management & Technology for Lawyers and Law Firms