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“Gretta Rusanow, author of Knowledge Management and the Smarter Lawyer, is conducting another global study of law firm knowledge management. Gretta conducted a similar study in 2001. The study will be comprehensive, covering scope, organisation, culture, technology, relationship with clients, budget and measuring value – providing a valuable benchmarking tool for law firms. Gretta will …
“Gartner…released its 2005 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, assessing the maturity, impact and adoption speed of 44 technologies and trends over the coming decade.” [press release] Key collaboration technologies in the “hype cycle” include: Podcasting, Peer to Peer (P2P) voice over IP (VoIP), Desktop Search, Really Simple Syndication (RSS), Corporate Blogging, and Wikis.
Will Googles Keyword Searching Eliminate the Need for LC Cataloging and Classification?by Thomas Mann, a Reference Librarian in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress. This paper was written for AFSCME 2910. “The larger the book collection, the morenot lessscholars are dependent on categorizations created by subject headings in catalogs and classified shelving …
Google has been the topic of several articles in the New York Times this week. Yesterday the focus was on corporate expansion, and today there is news about Google Desktop 2, an IM application called Google Talk, and Gmail for everyone (all of these services are free). See also: Google’s Grand Ambitions – Its lips …
Modernizing the Newspaper Editorial Page is an expansive, informative article that discusses how the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has embraced technology applications and new mechanisms for interacting with readers that have resulted in innovative changes to its publication style, its impact on the community, and the subject matter of its content.
“The intent of this RFI is, consistent with the direction in the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA) of 2004, to provide Electronic Directory Services (EDS), or the functional equivalent, to enable authorized participants to locate and access information, organizations, services and personnel in support of their respective mission requirements for terrorism information…An initial …
Libraries and Librarians: A link between Legal Information Services and Firm Productivity? (37 pages, Word document) by Margaret Aby Carroll, Library Sites Manager, Microsoft Corporation and Dr. Yvonne J. Chandler, Associate Professor, University of North Texas, School of Library and Information Science. [via excited utterances] “This study will seek to answer the following questions, “Can …
A forthcoming report from New Media & Society, Multiple Presents: How Search Engines Re-write the Past, by Iina Hellsten, Loet Leydesdorff, and Paul Wouters (available in PDF, 28 pages). “Internet search engines function in a present which changes continuously. The search engines update their indices regularly, overwriting Web pages with newer ones, adding new pages …
“Business Readiness Ratings (BRR) is being proposed as a new standard model for rating open source software. It is intended to enable the entire community (enterprise adopters and developers) to rate software in an open and standardized way. BRR is a community initiative that is being sponsored by Carnegie Mellon West Center for Open Source …
“Current IT systems deliver too much data and not enough insight, according to a new survey of global executives by the Economist Intelligence Unit.” [Link] Know how – Managing knowledge for competitive advantage (22 pages, PDF) : “There is no shortage of IT tools designed to address the requirement for corporate knowledge. But executives in …
All the articles listed are available in Part 1 of the July 2005 issue of LLRX.com: Delivering Actionable Information To Front-Line Lawyers – John Alber details the effective implementation of business intelligence (BI) systems within law firms. The Government Domain: Bloggin’ USA – Peggy Garvin looks at three free web services that leverage blogs and …
Delivering Actionable Information To Front-Line Lawyers, by John Alber
