Ed. Note: Please welcome our guest blogger, Susan Kostal, San Francisco based legal affairs journalist and consultant.
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One of the most fascinating ideas out of this year’s LMA Legal Tech West conference was a workshop on design thinking.
Design thinking has taken the corporate world by storm. Intended to build a culture of
As the Vice-President/President-Elect of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), I wanted to tell our 3 Geeks’ readers about the new visual identity and tagline that AALL officially rolled out last night. Leaders within the organization worked on this rebranding effort for nearly two years, and displayed the new logo back at the
Technology is cool. There is no disputing that fact. Last month, while travelling for work, I had a video conversation with my kid, while I was 3500 kms away in a relatively remote mountain resort, and he was in a moving vehicle. Last week, while doing some research I came across a data visualization of
If I am in a room with an academic law librarian for more than five minutes, I almost always get some form of this question:
What are the tech skills I should be teaching law students to better prepare them for working in the ‘real world?’
My answer is a pretty standard one. “Make sure
Craig Ball wrote a great article yesterday on “Six Powerful Points for Better Presentations” where he give some great tips on presenting information in PowerPoint. At the very end, under his “But, Wait! There’s More” section, he mentioned that he also uses PowerPoint as a “powerful screen capture and video editing” tool. I thought I’d
Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue. As such, it is a venal sin. But I’m thin skinned and easily goaded. I couldn’t take it when my best friend called me out for being a hypocrite. And so I have found my way back to a law firm, Haight Brown & Bonesteel, on
Innovation is hard. Despite how easily the word gets tossed around, like a “bong at a frat party” as a friend likes to say, but to truly innovate, to truly change a process, a culture, a product is one of the most difficult things to do.
Many legal industry pundits call for law firm innovation,
A couple months back, I was giving a talk in a far off land (Canada) and the moderator introduced me as “the most internet famous person [he’d] ever met.” This was genteel nonsense, all the more endearing because it was absurd on its face.
He was doing obvious violence to the concept of fame. Googling
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Let me start out this post by saying that I like David Perla, President of Bloomberg Law and Bloomberg BNA’s Legal division, and consider him to be an ally for the law librarian and legal information/knowledge profession. However, I have to say that I am a little disappointed at his Above the