Category «Marketing»

The power of generative ai

The Brainyacts: “I gave Cozen O’Connor a 60 minute executive briefing on generative AI. There were roughly 50 people who participated including the firm CEO, the CEO for the firm’s ancillary businesses, Office managing partners, business and operations leaders, and others. It was well received..I removed some slides that were firm specific and ones that …

Subjects: AI, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing

The decline of time-based law firms

Jordan Furlong: “Feeling apocalyptic about the impact of legally trained Large Language Models (LLMs) on the future of law firms? No? Allow this excerpt from Corporate Counsel to help you with that. [T]here’s reason to believe a boatload of tasks could be replaced by AI—about 44% of legal tasks within the U.S., according to Goldman Sachs’ …

Subjects: AI, Food and Nutrition, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing

Google Announces 8 New Top Level Domains Including One For Lawyers

Search Engine Journal: “Google announced the release of eight new top level domains (TLDs), including one which may have a high commercial potential for law firms, others that are useful for academics and two top level domains that are based on file extensions, which might be problematic from a security standpoint..”

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Marketing, Privacy, Search Engines

The Scholarly Fingerprinting Industry

Jefferson Pooley. The Scholarly Fingerprinting Industry Amerikastudien/American Studies 68, no. 1 (2023): 18–21. https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2023/1/41. 18 Amst 68.1 (2023): 5-26 “Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, Wiley, and SAGE: Many researchers know that the five giant firms publish most of the world’s scholarship. Fifty years of acquisitions and journal launches have yielded a stunningly profitable oligopoly, …

Subjects: Copyright, Economy, Education, Financial System, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Marketing, Privacy

GPT-3 Wrote an Entire Paper on Itself. Should Publishers be Concerned?

Via LLRX – GPT-3 Wrote an Entire Paper on Itself. Should Publishers be Concerned? In this article,  Saikiran Chandha, CEO and founder of SciSpace, discusses the impact of GPT-3 and related models on research, the potential question marks, and the steps that scholarly publishers can take to protect their interests.

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Marketing

Choosing Backgrounds for Success: The Role of Videoconference Backgrounds in Self-Presentation

Journal of the Association for Consumer Research Volume 8, Number 2, April 2023 [no fee]  – “Videoconferencing offers firms and employees novel options for self-presentation in the form of onscreen backgrounds. We explore how customer service employees can use videoconference backgrounds to manage customers’ impressions of them and their firm. Four experiments, including a Facebook …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Marketing

Audiobooks Without Audible: The Hard Lessons I’ve Learned Routing Around Amazon

Publishers Weekly: “With a Kickstarter campaign now underway for the audio edition of his new book, ‘Red Team Blues,’ Cory Doctorow shares the mistakes of his past campaigns—and why it’s all worth it. My next novel is Red Team Blues. It’s a major title for my publisher, Tor (which is part of Macmillan), and the …

Subjects: Digital Rights, E-Commerce, Internet, Libraries, Marketing

Create images with your words – Bing Image Creator comes to the new Bing

Microsoft Blogs: “Last month we introduced the new AI-powered Bing and Microsoft Edge, your copilot for the web – delivering better search, complete answers, a new chat experience and the ability to create content. Already, we have seen that chat is reinventing how people search with more than 100 million chats to date. We’ve seen …

Subjects: AI, E-Commerce, Internet, Marketing, Microsoft

LinkedIn is adding AI tools for generating profile copy and job descriptions

The Verge: “LinkedIn is expanding its suite of artificial intelligence features, this time adding tools that will generate content for user profiles and job descriptions. One tool announced today will scan user profiles for skills and experiences and spit out suggested copy or summaries to add to other profile sections. The company says it still …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Marketing, Social Media