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]
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author archive 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] 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] 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] 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] Keeping Found Things Found: Our Challenge in the Age of the Information Tsunami by Joel Alleyne October 21st, 2008 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] 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] 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] Why You Should Take a Look at the Free / Open Source Software Movement by Joel Alleyne February 17th, 2008 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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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Canada Not a “Recognised Jurisdiction” In UK Lawyers Transfer Scheme by Simon Fodden A Class Action Suit Against Pedophile Priests Filed in Montreal by Yosie Saint-Cyr World Treaty Index by Simon Fodden Get on the Partnership Track With the CBA Partnership Toolkit by Dan Pinnington Court Web Site Guidelines – Principles 10 and 11 (Viability, Simplicity) by Patrick Cormier Cleaning Files From Hard Drives by David Canton What’s Nu? by Simon Fodden Google Launches Gmail Priority Inbox by Connie Crosby Oxford English Dictionary and the Future of Print by Simon Fodden Welcome to in Custodia Legis – Mapping the Law of the US by Simon Chester Law School Tech Talk: New Podcast From CALI by Connie Crosby Canada – The Best Kept Secret in the U.S. by Omar Ha-Redeye Madam Justice Fran Kiteley to Keynote by David Bilinsky The Friday Fillip by Simon Fodden Who Are You? No, Really. by Simon Fodden Bootstrap Website Advice by Steven Matthews Google’s New Real Time Search by Simon Fodden Google the Great Risk Taker by Shaunna Mireau Update on Ongoing Collaborative Family Law Agreement Frauds by Dan Pinnington iPhone Spy Phone by Yosie Saint-Cyr
Thoughts & Tactics for Practice Group SEO by Steven Matthews The Growing Acceptance Of “Off the Shelf” Service Descriptions by Wesley Ng What’s Good Enough? by Susan Munro Mentoring: Important for Men – Crucial for Women by Linda K. Robertson First Nations Land to Settler Land Disconnect by Ruth Thompson Authentication and Trust – Some Preliminary Thoughts by John Gregory Nostalgia and the Internet by Bob Berring The Disappointment of Data by Steven B. Levy Outsourcing: An Interview With Clients by Debra Finlay Outsourcing Legal Information by Karen Sawatzky Question-Able Marketing by Leah Norman Outlook – the Personal Productivity Tool by Ben Schorr The Anatomy of a Headnote by Eric Appleby Technology and Access to Justice in Rural Communities by Michael Litchfield Letting the Clients Decide by Jordan Furlong Offshore LPO News by Gavin Birer Building a Business Case for an External Blog by Heather Colman Your First High Tech Trial by Nils Jensen Curating the Legal Web? by Jason Wilson Defining Civil Justice by Diana Lowe  The re-development categories slaw linkblog
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