I had some fun over at the SLA Future Ready 365 blog this weekend when my post “Re-embracing the “Shush”–Can the Library be a Quiet Place in the Age of Social?” went up on Sunday. There is a lot of talk about how the library should be a place for social gathering, sharing
We’ve been using Google Docs to collaborate on our weekly Elephant Posts, and the more I use it, the more I love it. With real-time collaboration, combined with easy access to the cloud-based documents platform, Google Docs is an amazing place to work on projects with others in your office, or across the world.
We (IT) are getting more and more pressure to develop systems that enable the client to interact with the Firm in what is being coined as a “real time” or near real time basis. The technology to communicate in real time has been around for many years, we call that technology a telephone. You have
I written before that I think the Library department and the Marketing departments work very well together. However, apparently the folks over at Morrison Foerster (MoFo) have taken my advice further than even I would have imagined. Yesterday at the Law Marketing Association conference, MoFo new CMO, Joe Calve, discussed the topic of increasing
I just finished reading a piece (PDF available here) by one of my favorite law firm Competitive Intelligence gurus, Shannon Kay Sankstone. Shannon and her co-worker Charlotte Graesser Henderson from Quarles & Brady explained the need for the Library/Research staff within a law firm to work in tandem with the Marketing department. I
Computing in the Cloud (f.k.a. SaaS, Hosted Applications, ASP, Thin Client computing, etc.) is all the rage these days. And it incites a high level of emotion amongst both its supporters and detractors. Those holding back against the Cloud trend point to security of information (for lawyers this is your clients’ information) as
It’s been a busy week around the three geekdom. Although I couldn’t attend the ILTA 09 meeting in Washington DC, I monitored it religiously (via the #ILTA09 tag) and helped my boss prep for her back-to-back presentations on Records Management and Library Services contract negotiations. We had a Westlaw blowup mid-week, and I
Jordan Furlong’s question on The Future of CLE posted on LinkedIn got me thinking. The question leveraged my prior 3 Geeks post on the Googlization of CLE and included his comments about how CLE’s role could shift towards professional development. So what if we take a step beyond Googlization (which is so “3 months
I know, you don’t expect to see “open source” and “law firms” in the same sentence unless it is discussing how a law firm is trying to find a way for its clients to claim copyright on something they built upon an open source product. But that’s not what we’re talking about here. I really