[Guest Post by Elaine Egan]
For decades technology has been an enabler for Knowledge Management. Industries have surrendered to the pressure of a technology solution that doesn’t factor in the real human element of organized information, defined terms and evaluation that lead to actionable knowledge. The founding principles of knowledge management are that unique information held
A couple years ago, I wrote a post called “Open Source in Law Firms – Unimaginable or Brilliant?” where I wondered if a BigLaw firm would consider using Open Source software for some of their technology needs. I mentioned Kuali, an open-source accounting system as an opportunity, but then went on to
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Scott Preston and I wrote a piece for ILTA’s Peer to Peer Magazine this month entitled “Building a Bridge Between IT and Library Services.” This was the third piece of our collaboration of helping IT and Library Services (LS) understand that we are working toward the same goals, and that
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We have been asking Elephant Post questions for a little over a year now, and we just had a first for this week. No one answered this week’s question.
To refresh your memories, the question was “How are you implementing ‘efficiency’ at your office?” We had hoped that some would
Oh how I long for the days when I would boot up my IBM 8086 PC off of the dual-floppy drives and not have to answer any security questions in order to get to my word processing program. Granted, it was slow… but it was simple. It wasn’t connected to a fast Internet connection… but
For many years we have been talking about Intranets as a place to quickly find information. There has been much discussion about technology improvements and the latest design ideas. We talk about how to organize (taxonomy) and access (in Outlook or web browser) information. We have even involved attorneys in the design process with the hope
This last Friday, I went to go see “MoneyBall”.
For the uninitiated, this is a baseball movie that reveals the secret behind the Oakland A’s incredible 20-game winning streak with what was perceived to be a less than stellar stable of players. As the character Peter Brand says, they are “like an island of
Pushing one social media stream to another is nothing new. I’ve been pushing my Google Reader updates to an automated Twitter feed for many months now, and my Twitter feed goes automatically to my LinkedIn profile. However, these tend to be pretty automated processes, without a lot of flexibility built into that process. If you’re