The Consumerization of IT. Bring Your Own Device. Personal Cloud Storage. These buzzwords have sent IT departments the world over into a tizzy. In fact, 37% of all IT related articles written in the last 2 years have been about one of these three concepts. (I totally made that stat up.) We, as IT people,
One of my absolute favorite websites for learning about new products, or how to enhance my use of existing products is MakeUseOf. Unfortunately, they post dozens of updates each day and it can be a bit overwhelming to find updates that fall specifically into my wheelhouse. Yesterday, however, I did find a nice juicy nugget of
If you have a service that gets 20 million unique users a month, and you have personal information on those users, what could you do with it? For the staffers at music streaming site, Grooveshark, the answer was to build a free tool that shows the demographics, culture and lifestyles, habits, and product preferences
When Dewey & LeBouef filed for Chapter 11 protection, the firm listed the unsecured creditors, and three of the biggest losers on the list were Thomson Reuters (owed $2.3 million), LexisNexis (owed $1.4 million.), and CCH (owed $650K.)
Although the total amount of legal research to debt is something like 1.7% of the total,
New Orleans’ based newspaper, The Times-Picayune, announced that it is shifting its print publications to a three day a week schedule instead of its traditional seven days a week model. The focus of the paper will shift to its free online content and will attempt to look at ways of making online advertising more profitable. In
Sometimes private conversations just need to be shared. Ron Friedmann and I thought as much on some of the recent conversations we had regarding the best way to get information to people with all of the different resources now at our disposal. Of course, the first thing we asked was “how do we get everyone
Note: A few weeks ago I saw that the law library at the law firm of Bryan Cave had a Twitter account and was actively tweeting. The concept of a large law firm tweeting isn’t that unusual, but the idea of a library within the firm publicly tweeting did sound a little foreign to me.
Since we’re on the topic of Social Networks in a Law Firm…
Social (small s) collaboration is the lifeblood of any project undertaken by human beings. We have evolved to collaborate
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Let’s face it. Social Networks work fine when you’re sharing information with your friends, or even with peers within your industry subset. Social Networks at your place of work, however, usually don’t work very well at all. There are probably a thousand reasons why this is, but I think one of the
