At TechShow last week, a roll-out for what I believe to be a first – a book devoted to advanced technologies for lawyers to collaborate.

The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together, by Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell empowers lawyers who are just beginning to try these tools, as well as providing tips and techniques for lawyers with intermediate and advanced collaboration experience. . . . [more]

Via Resource Shelf, a link to UNESCO’s new Freedom of information: a comparative legal survey. This follows on Alasdair Roberts’ 2005 Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age, which won the 2006 Louis Brownlow Book Award, and three other book awards in 2007. Professor Roberts is another high-octane Canadian hiding out in the US. . . . [more]

I know–everybody has been checking Slaw hourly to see what shenanigans I’d be up to on St. Patrick’s Day. Well, I hate to disappoint. For much silliness, you are welcome to check my blog post Happy St. Paddy’s Day to All My Friends.

To those of you raising a pint on this fine day: Sláinte! . . . [more]

The TechnoLawyer Blog is compiling a growing list of blog posts and reports at ABA TECHSHOW 2008: Read Our Exclusive Firsthand Reports.

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Slate, the U.S. internet magazine of political commentary, has started a law blog called Convictions. Seems it’s going to be a multi-author thing — practitioners, law profs… — but there’s no “about” page so you have to hunt through the recent posts for the skinny.

Clearly one worth watching, so open it up in your feed reader for a test drive. . . . [more]

Slawyer Dominic Jaar presented twice at the recent ABA Techshow in Chicago. Here’s the text of his presentations:

• The first is on the use of Web 2.0 tools for [doc] collaboration
• The second is about the use of phones and PDA’s to create the [PDF] mobile office

Thanks, Dominic. . . . [more]

On Monday the British House of Lords starts blogging. The Times reports that Lord Soley, Lord Norton, Lord Tyler, Lord Lipsey, Lord Dholakia, Baroness D’Souza, Lord Teverson, Baroness Young of Hornsey and Baroness Murphy — collectively to be known as Lords of the Blog — will begin a 6-month experiment aimed at raising public awareness of the role and business of the House of Lords.

Lord Soley of Hammersmith has been blogging for some time under the title of Lord of the Blog, and has just now (6 pm EST Sunday, March 16), even as I write, posted about . . . [more]

Do you dread networking events? Wonder about what to say? Do you find there is something uncomfortable or possibly distasteful about the seemingly compulsory exchange of business cards? If so then you probably value sincerity and professionalism. Too often networking is reduced to a numbers game of how many business cards you can pass out in an hour. If you are looking for a different approach, one more in alignment with your own professional values, then read on.

The introvert advantage:

Introverts have the advantage. You don’t have to grandstand, shake fifty hands and talk about yourself. Instead, the name . . . [more]

Monica Bay has put together a nice list of bloggers who have been live at this year’s ABA TechShow in Chicago covering the event for the rest of us stuck in the snow or underneath paperwork! . . . [more]

A Google Easter Egg (or, what it would be like if you crossed a Google with a Microsoft):

http://docs.google.com/images/cliply.gif

[via waxy.org: links] . . . [more]

The Canadian Constitution is a point of no small amount of pride in many Canadians and also a point of some contention. In this day and age we sometimes struggle to fit issues of the modern day with the Constitution. Equality rights, euthanasia, religion, terrorism and more, are all issues which we struggle to fit into our constitutional framework. Another issue has been added to the list: Migratory Birds.

In August of 1916 Canada (or more properly the U.K.) and the United States concluded a treaty in recognition of the importance of protecting Migratory Birds which were “…in danger . . . [more]

For all of you who manage the firm intranet, or are charged with capture technologies for internal KM… do yourself a favour and check out this post on Google Blogoscoped.

A very interesting look at Google’s internal web functionality. Comes via a KM World webinar yesterday called Innovation@Google: A Day In The Life. An event I didn’t partake in, but really wished I had. :)

One of the screen captures below:

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