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Exploring How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

by Joel Alleyne

August 17th, 2009

One of the quotes I go back to often is a quote from a 1945 paper by the economist Hayek where he says: The economic problem of society … is… [more]

I was attending a KM session in NYC a few years ago when Michael Mills (Director of Professional Services & Systems of Davis Polk & Wardwell) was leading a session.… [more]

Email – Good Enough Isn’t!

by Joel Alleyne

April 13th, 2009

If I was honest with you, I would admit that I read with glee the flurry of news reports noting that Facebook and other Web 2.0 media (such as Twitter,… [more]

Knowledge, Markets and the Enterprise

by Joel Alleyne

January 29th, 2009

Most knowledge management systems and frameworks are built on the premise that we can encourage people to share what they know. However, sharing is what we do in kindergarten –… [more]

The Need to Forget – Less Is More

by Joel Alleyne

December 14th, 2008

Earlier in the year, I came across an article in New Scientist titled “Forgetfulness is key to a healthy mind”. In this article a case was described: A 42-year-old woman… [more]

A colleague, John Gillies at Cassels Brock, introduced me to the book “Keeping Found Things Found” earlier in the year. This book should be a key reference for Information Technology… [more]

When the subject of “finding experts” comes up in most groups of legal KM professionals, the discussion often polarizes into two camps – either automated solutions or self-declared solutions. Indeed,… [more]

Revisiting the Paperless Office

by Joel Alleyne

June 8th, 2008

From time to time fellow Slawyers wax poetically about the paperless office (or the not-so-paperless-office). Seems to me most of us view it as the unattainable holy grail. However, while… [more]

Davos – Business Week, IBM and Global Workforce

by Joel Alleyne

March 30th, 2008

What do you get when you cross Davos, Business Week, IBM and Global Workforce? An interesting article with implications for KM practitioners and researchers alike that doesn’t use the term… [more]

When talking about free / open source software, I am often surprised at the number of people today who still say to me – “if it is free it cannot… [more]

Social Networks – Why You Should Care

by Joel Alleyne

December 27th, 2007

I have been fortunate in the last two years to have been asked to speak about social networks in law (and other professional) firms at conferences and workshops. I thought… [more]

Law and the Semantic Web

by Joel Alleyne

November 23rd, 2007

One of the things that surprised me when I started working with law firms is that most firms and most tech people ask one question repeatedly that seems to stifle… [more]

Everything Is Miscellaneous – a Must-Read Book

by Joel Alleyne

October 27th, 2007

David Weinberger, author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined (2002) ((Weinberger, D. (2002). Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing.)) and one of the… [more]

Portals Revisited

by Joel Alleyne

September 15th, 2007

About eight years ago, I toured the country with a number of seminars conducted by the Delphi Group on corporate portals. Portals were quickly becoming an option for corporations (including… [more]

EV-DO Provides High Speed Access

by Joel Alleyne

August 3rd, 2006

Earlier in the year I wrote about my EV-DO PC card – which I still use as a way to stay in touch with the office and the world when… [more]

A New Twist to Domain Squatting

by Joel Alleyne

July 21st, 2006

Picture this: you go online to see if a specific domain name is available; you use what is supposed to be a reputable site on the web; when you come… [more]

Net Neutrality – The Debate Continues

by Joel Alleyne

June 4th, 2006

Here are two recent articles about the ongoing debate about net neutrality. First, from CIO Magazine, Ben Worthen warns “The democracy of the Web may soon be a relic of… [more]

You Can Still Be Fired for Surfing the Web?

by Joel Alleyne

May 8th, 2006

Despite the fact that Judge John Spooner, an administrative law judge, ruled that a New York City employee cannot be fired for surfing the Web at work in April, the… [more]

Johnny Continues to Ignore Copyright

by Joel Alleyne

April 27th, 2006

Given that this week’s theme is ‘Copyright’, I went back to a recent article I had read in CIO Insight, in January, by Larry Downes, Associate Dean of the UC-Berkeley… [more]

Google Romance

by Joel Alleyne

April 1st, 2006

I am not sure how long this link will remain … but check out the new (beta; of course) Google Romance. Make sure to take the tour. Have fun :=).… [more]

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