Law Firms Giving Blogs the Stamp of Approval

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

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

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.

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Autonomy to supply IDOL software for Microsoft’s SharePoint Server 2007

Autonomy announced that it is delivering its Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) to customers of Microsoft’s SharePoint Server 2007.

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The iPhone Cometh - June 29, 2007

June 29, 2007. Mark your calendars. You can get one of these.

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Knowledge Leadership Forum 2007 this week

The Knowledge Leadership Forum 2007 is happening this week: Thursday and Friday, April 26-27, 2007 at Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York City. The event is sponsored by Recommind and West km, two leaders in law firm KM software.

Google advances Knowledge Management and Collaboration

Google announced that it will add “Presentations” to it’s Google Docs & Spreadsheets family. The launch is expected this summer. The announcement follows Google’s acquisition of Tonic Systems , of San Francisco and Melbourne, Australia. Tonic Systems specializes in technology for presentation creation and document conversion. There were no specifics about the abilities of the presentation application other than referring to creating slides and real-time, web-based collaboration. It sounds like a shot across the bow to Microsoft’s PowerPoint, but we hope that its collaboration abilities will go beyond that.

We would like to see perhaps a combination of Google’s applications, like Google Talk, along with Presentations so that users can carry on a conversation while sharing slides (or maybe even sharing the host user’s screen for web demos ala WebEx?).

All of this in a tidy Google package may be too much to ask for, but we’ll keep our fingers crossed. We’ll also keep them crossed for the public launch of JotSpot, which we haven’t seen since Google acquired it sometime late last year.

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Google News Archive Search

Google has launched a new News Archive Search Service. As the name implies, it reaches back to provide older news stories about the search term. Here is an excerpt from the “about” page:
“ News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. Users can search for events, people, ideas and see how they have been described over time. In addition to searching for the most relevant articles for their query, users can get an historical overview of the results by browsing an automatically created timeline. Search results include both content that is accessible to all users and content that requires a fee. Articles related to a single story within a given time period are grouped together to allow users to see a broad perspective on the events.”