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KM Best Practices

Tue, 29 May 2007 12:25:10 -0700

At a February 2007 large law firm knowledge management meeting, a panel of four KM professionals and the audience discussed best practices and the connection to KM. This article by Ron Friedmann reports the highlights of the discussion at that meeting.

A Cup of Creativi-tea: Resources

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:34:03 -0700

Terri Wilson focuses on workshops, websites, and other sources to assist in your exploration into the creative world, both professionally and personally. This is Terri's last column, and I thank her for a year of wonderful contributions.

LawPro Links - An A to Z Directory of Web Resources

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:13:22 -0700

Sabrina I. Pacifici has revised and updated her guide to a core group of reliable, content rich resources for researchers. Highlighted topics include: a new search engine for legal blogs, one for free federal district court filings, and one for Wikipedia; an updated legal research guide from M.G. Gallagher Law Library, government sponsored e-waste and recycling services, a filmology of librarians in the movies, the 10 best corporate intranets of 2007, the launch of the Anglo-American Legal Tradition Project Website, and much more.

Knowledge Discovery Resources 2007 - An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:04:23 -0700

Marcus P. Zillman's extensive guide to knowledge discovery technologies, programs, resources and sites includes links to groups, organizations and applications specific to know-how discovery, harvesting and management, data and text mining, as well as vendors/suppliers of related services.

Seven Legal Technology Trends for 2007: Widening the Digital Divide in Law Practice

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:34:41 -0700

Dennis Kennedy contends that by the end of 2007, there will be a clearly distinguishable digital divide between technology-forward and technology-backward firms. He suggests seven trends that should be on the agendas of law firm technology committees.

Search at the Foundation of the Enterprise

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:02:15 -0700

John Alber reviews and details the successful application of a Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing system to effectively and comprehensively search a law firm's continually expanding electronic document repository.

SharePoint Blogging with Permission

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:50:03 -0700

Lorette S.J. Weldon continues to share her guides on how librarians in various sectors can effectively leverage SharePoint within the enterprise, in groups, and with individuals outside the organization. She refers to her 2010 survey, "How is SharePoint used in Libraries?" that found 16 out of 54 participants used SharePoint's site features, such as the blog. Lorette provides insights and associated documentation on this application's limitations, features, and operational structure.

Knowledge Discovery Resources 2012 - An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:53:05 -0700

This guide by Marcus P. Zillman is focused on the latest and most competent resources for knowledge discovery available through the Internet from a wide range of open source authors and sponsors. These sites are sustained by academics, publishers, professional organizations, corporations, governments and NGOs. With the constant addition of new and pertinent information to the Web, a critical key is to find and leverage the relevant and reliable knowledge discovery resources and sites both in the visible and invisible World Wide Web. The selected knowledge discovery resources and sites compiled by Marcus provide a wealth of knowledge and information discovery sources to facilitate your research goals.

Deep Web Research 2012

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:39:02 -0700

Marcus P. Zillman's extensive research over the years into the "invisible" or "deep" web indicates that it covers somewhere in the vicinity of 1 trillion plus pages of information located throughout the Internet in various files and formats that current search engines either cannot locate, or have difficulty accessing. The current search engines find hundreds of billions of pages at the time of this publication. His guide provides extensive and targeted resources to facilitate both a better understanding of the history of deep web research as well to effectively and productively search for and locate these often undiscovered but critical documents.

A Proposal for Creating a National Digital Library System in the Public Mode

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:41:48 -0700

David H. Rothman contends that "education at all levels should be the main priority of a public national digital library system even though it should serve many purposes. How can we train Americans for more complicated jobs, in this high-tech, globalized era, if they lack knowledge of the fundamentals? Even the nontechnical would benefit as, for example, better corporate strategists or marketers with a superior understanding of cultures outside the United States, and of history, commerce, and life in general. And if we can elevate the quality of public schools, not just private ones, won't U.S. colleges and universities come out ahead with an enhanced pool of talent?"

Blank on Blank - the nonprofit media partnering initiative preserves and shares interviews

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:08:17 -0700

Laura Soto-Barra introduces us to Blank on Blank, a nonprofit media partnering with journalists, publications and publishers to turn excerpts of unheard reporting into a living, audio archive of the American interview.

Free Tools and Applications For More Efficient Online Interaction

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:58:09 -0700

Many lawyers understand the importance of networking, but running a law practice takes time and no one ever seems to have enough of it. This factor is one of the main reasons lawyers offer as an excuse to avoid online networking, but Nicole Black proposes how choosing even a few efficient applications from the range of free tools available can streamline and accelerate this marketing process.

The End of Institutional Repositories & the Beginning of Social Academic Research Service: An Enhanced Role For Libraries

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:44:10 -0700

Stuart Basefsky advocates broadening the concept of institutional repositories (IRs) to serve as full-fledged electronic libraries and documents how they can then serve the greater purpose of collecting, disseminating, analyzing and exchanging useful digital information for academic purposes.

Navigating the Enterprise 2.0 Highway

Tue, 26 May 2009 21:37:37 -0700

Heather Colman provides an overview of Hicks Morley's implementation of ThoughtFarmer, an Enterprise 2.0/wiki style intranet platform, one year ago. Despite a few growing pains, she describes how the application was successful at meeting the primary objectives to decentralize content updates and increase knowledge sharing and collaboration within the firm.

Proactive Leadership & The Role of Information: Identifying Strategic Networks of Information

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:59:54 -0700

Networking is supposed to be essential to successful leaders. But what is the importance of networking conceptually? People are only one form of this vital leadership resource. Stuart Basefksy explains how would one go about developing expanded networks of information and sources.