Category «Knowledge Management»

Understand and uncover the identity of your location with a tap

“Sitegeist is a mobile application that helps you to learn more about your surroundings in seconds. Drawing on publicly available information, the app presents solid data in a simple at-a-glance format to help you tap into the pulse of your location. From demographics about people and housing to the latest popular spots or weather, Sitegeist …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

Life Span of U.S. Supreme Court Citation Containing an Internet Link

Liebler, Raizel and Liebert, June (2013) Something Rotten in the State of Legal Citation: The Life Span of a United States Supreme Court Citation Containing an Internet Link (1996-2010), Yale Journal of Law and Technology: Vol. 15: Iss. 2, Article 2. “Citations are the cornerstone upon which judicial opinions and law review articles stand. Within …

Subjects: Courts, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

UK Guardian – Secret court lets NSA extend its trawl of Verizon customers’ phone records

“The National Security Agency has been allowed to extend its dragnet of the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon through a court order issued by the secret court that oversees surveillance. In an unprecedented move prompted by the Guardian’s disclosure in June of the NSA‘s indiscriminate collection of Verizon metadata, the Office …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, E-Government, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Patriot Act, Privacy

Study on emerging technologies librarians

RADNIECKI, Tara (2013) Study on emerging technologies librarians: how a new library position and its competencies are evolving to meet the technology and information needs of libraries and their patrons. Paper presented at: IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 17 – 23 August 2013, Singapore. “This study examines the roles and responsibilities of the emerging …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries, Marketing

Six Sigma as Law Redesign

Six Sigma as Law Redesign: “Employment law firm Seyfarth Shaw has adapted the business process of Six Sigma into the law firm, and law-client, setting, while also mixing it in with Lean methodology.  They call it ‘SeyfarthLean’. Their website gives a basic overview of what the method encompasses — much of which overlaps with human …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Open Law Lab is an initiative to design law – to make it more accessible, more usable, and more engaging

“Open Law Lab begins with the idea that law can be more engaging, more usable, and more useful. It proposes that bright law students, professors, researchers, professionals, and makers can build products and services to do exactly this. Under a broad mission of providing innovative ways to increase access to justice, the Lab ventures to …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing

The Digital Landscape in 2013 and its Impact on Communities

Personal. Portable. Participatory. Pervasive. The Digital Landscape in 2013 and its Impact on Communities by Lee Rainie July 18, 2013 at Community Foundations, brought together by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. “Pew Internet Director Lee Rainie discussed the new media ecosystem with leaders of community foundations from Western states and several other …

Subjects: Blogs, Economy, Education, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

New Preservation Metadata

“OCLC Research Scientist Brian Lavoie and Richard Gartner from King’s College London co-authored this second edition of Preservation Metadata, which focuses on new developments in preservation metadata made possible by the emergence of PREMIS as a de facto international standard. The complete report is available from the Digital Preservation Coalition website – it will be of interest …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines

The Impact of Digital Tools on Student Writing and How Writing is Taught in Schools

The Impact of Digital Tools on Student Writing and How Writing is Taught in Schools – by Kristen Purcell, Judy Buchanan, Linda Friedrich. July 16, 2013 “A survey of teachers who instruct American middle and high school students finds that digital technologies are impacting student writing in myriad ways and there are significant advantages from …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management

Pew – Public Esteem for Military Still High Clergy in the Middle, Lawyers at the Bottom

“Americans continue to hold the military in high regard, with more than three-quarters of U.S. adults (78%) saying that members of the armed services contribute “a lot” to society’s well-being. That’s a modest decline from 84% four years ago, the last time the Pew Research Center asked the public to rate various professions. But the …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Marketing

The SEC’s Role in Cracking the Door Open so Women May Enter

The Glass Boardroom: The SEC’s Role in Cracking the Door Open so Women May Enter, Tamara Smallman, Independent, June 27, 2013 – Columbia Business Law Review, Winter 2013, Forthcoming “This Note explores the current status of gender diversity disclosures under the SEC’s 2009 Proxy Disclosure Enhancements. It draws on data compiled from the 2012 Fortune …

Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Global Risks Report 2013

“The Global Risks Report 2013 analyses 50 global risks in terms of impact, likelihood and interconnections, based on a survey of over 1000 experts from industry, government and academia. This year’s findings show that the world is more at risk as persistent economic weakness saps our ability to tackle environmental challenges. The report highlights wealth gaps (severe income …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management