A couple weeks ago, Michael Robak guest blogged about his experience on Why ReInvent Law Was Not Just a ‘Preaching to the Choir’ Conference. There was, and still is, a lot of discussion on this Silicon Valley conference, both with the presentation model, and the content. Now you can see for yourself what all
Motivation, Determintion, Communication, and Increasing Happenstance
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The story goes something like this:
Sitting in a Partner’s office a few months ago, a research librarian was listening to the speech the partner was preparing to give the client. Suddenly, the librarian ran into one of those moments where her own experience suddenly became very relevant. As the partner jumped through
CANO: Blawgers Who Shamelessly Drop Names Like Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Bloomberg for Traffic
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Turns out that some legal bloggers are using a system of mentioning company names in order to boost traffic to their blogs. This strategy, known as Company Alert Name Optimization (CANO), takes advantage of companies like Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and BloombergLaw, including subsidiaries
The "How and Why" of it All
I recently stumbled across a report, How College Students Evaluate and Use Information in the Digital Age, from Project Information Literacy (PIL). The report was published in November of 2010, based on research conducted in the spring of that year. Therefore, some of these students might be entering your firms this year as summer associates
Could you text that to me?
Luxury Daily reports that according to the latest Forrester Research, just under 10 percent of U.S. consumers trust marketers’ text messages, while 12 percent trust information on mobile applications.
Well, obviously, they haven’t met me.
I love my little Target, Walgreens, and RedBox texts. I get coupons, free movies and reminders. And AT&T sends me usage
Hello BigLaw…
How are you? So good to see you again. It’s been so long? When was the last time we…
Oh, wait. No! Somebody lock that door! Don’t let him out! You guys, each grab an arm and sit him down in this chair.
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OK. Calm down… It’s alright. No one is
Do's and Don'ts and Ways to Be Happy
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I’m usually not big on sharing motivational sayings, but occasionally I run across things that make sense to me and make me feel a bit more motivated in moving forward in my profession. I have run across two of those things in the past 24-hours.
First of all, I read Andy Hines’
Books are so Analog…
My kids were going through every TomSka (asdfmovie) video on YouTube last night when the first five seconds of asdfmovie4 caught my attention (as well as my wife, who is also a librarian.)
Although she has to deal with Pre-K through 5th Graders, and I have to deal with lawyers, we just smiled
Convert Company Facebook Feeds into RSS, Then Into Useable Information
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I found a cool resource a couple weeks ago and think it has some definite possibilities for those Client Development and Monitoring projects that many of us have to create and maintain these days. The idea is to use information that companies dissemenate on Facebook, but in the more managable form of an RSS feed.
Kirtsaeng v. Wiley: Upholding First Sale Doctrine on Works Manufactured Abroad
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That celebratory sound you heard from your local library today was your librarian reading the Kirtsaeng v. Wiley (PDF) case handed down by the US Supreme Court this morning. I’ve added a statement on the case from The Owners’ Rights Initiative, about the Supreme Court ruling that even books