On March 18, 2008 NewsGator conducted a webinar called “Increase Employee Productivity with Enterprise RSS.” Replay here.
More LawyerKM on RSS here.
More on RSS from other KM sites here.
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Here are some of my favorite legal knowledge management & technology blog posts and other items from the week of - March 2 - 8 , 2008:
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Another great Common Craft video (see below). This one is about Twitter.
I like Twitter (see the link to follow LawyerKM on Twitter on the right –>>). But I’m getting a little inundated with information these days, and Twitter isn’t helping. Neither is following people like Robert Scoble, the self-proclaimed “tech geek videoblogger” and prolific twitterer (or is it tweeter?). More than 11,000 people follow Scoble on Twitter.
I like following him as a Google Reader friend because he essentially vets content for me. Well, not directly, but you get the idea: I read the stuff that he has shared because if he thinks it’s interesting enough to share, then it probably is interesting enough for me to read. (See RSS Overload is the New Black to see how Scoble rips through 600 RSS feeds in a flash with Google Reader).
And for me, “following” is the killer app of Twitter. Socially, it may be interesting to learn that a friend is shopping for a new sweater or is exhausted from a six-mile run, but in a law firm - we can take the “following” concept to a business level. Whether it’s blogs, micro-blogs, instant messages, or tagged / favorite documents, if my boss thinks it’s important, I should too. If certain information flows to (or from) smart, important people (like the senior partners in my law firm), I want to catch that flow, too.
Give young attorneys a way (other than email blasts) to capture information flows and follow senior attorneys so that they can benefit from what these smart, important people are consuming (or generating).
And by the way - if you, too, feel inundated, check out one way to get a lot of content in one space: the LawyerKM Netvibes Universe.
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Here are some of my favorite legal knowledge management & technology blog posts and other items from the week of February 17 - 23, 2008:
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Here are some of my favorite legal knowledge management blog posts and other items from the week of February 10 - 16, 2008:
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Update: the Wired link below is apparently dead. Here is another link to the same study on ABC News and another on MSNBC.
Great article [dead link] on Wired. Best take-away: “Resist the urge to immediately follow up an e-mail with an instant message or phone call. Make sure the subject line clearly reflects the topic and urgency of an e-mail. And use ‘reply all’ sparingly.”
We in KM have a special hatred of email. Let’s hope that 2008 brings RSS, internal blogs, and wikis to reduce the amount of unnecessary email we have to battle. We’ll deal with RSS overload at another time.
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Great article on Wired. Best take-away: “Resist the urge to immediately follow up an e-mail with an instant message or phone call. Make sure the subject line clearly reflects the topic and urgency of an e-mail. And use ‘reply all’ sparingly.”
We in KM have a special hatred of email. Let’s hope that 2008 brings RSS, internal blogs, and wikis to reduce the amount of unnecessary email we have to battle. We’ll deal with RSS overload at another time.
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Although LawyerKM likes the idea of enterprise RSS, we know that many firms are not ready to go there. Will the lawyers use it? Is it worth the investment? Don’t get us started. Most of us here have resorted to Google Reader, which we love. We often wish that Google would make an enterprise version of it; but, we’re not holding our collective breath.
We’re such big fans of GReader, that we were shocked to see that Google added a search box - the lack of which we always found strange. [PC World agrees] How could Google — the search giant that it is — fail to have a search function in its RSS reader?
Even more shocking is that we didn’t notice that the search function has been there for a couple of weeks now. It has something to do with the fact that we’ve been really busy and also because we all have the Reader on our iGoogle pages - so we don’t really open GReader (proper) very often.
Well, we’re happy to see it. A belated welcome and thank you.
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Janet Johnson dropped us a comment on the “About” page regarding Attensa and an upcoming announcement. See her blog for details. Full disclosure: Attensa is a client of Janet’s.
LawyerKM doesn’t do endorsements (however, we can be bought - kidding), but she is right. We have written about RSS (click the RSS category on the left to see) before, but not mentioned Attensa. We’ve seen their stuff in action (along with the other big enterprise RSS players (NewsGator and KnowNow), and they are worth looking into.
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Who is Louis? The new website LOUIS — the Library Of Unified Information Sources — makes U.S. Federal documents available to the people - by searching or RSS feed, if you so desire.
Like Google News (see also here) or Yahoo News, you can perform a search and then subscribe to that search via RSS feed. This is a real time saver, people.
Very handy, if you are tracking Congressional Reports, Congressional Records, Congressional Hearings, the Federal Register, Presidential Documents, GAO Reports, or Bills & Resolutions.
This is similar to the Justia’s Regulation Tracker, which we told you about back in April, but may be broader in scope.
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