My prior musings on search tools started from a discussion on how keyword searching has reached its limits. Courts and lawyers are struggling with the immense amount of information involved in discovery and hoping for more cost effective ways of finding relevant case information without breaking the bank.
The effort to improve search goes well
Knowledge Management (KM) in the UK has meant something different than here in the US until recently. My top-line assessment has been that the UK gets the human aspect of KM and the US gets the technology part. We’ve both been working towards the middle with varying degrees of success.
In the UK, the human
I’ve previously noted that keyword searching has seen better days. Numerous recent e-discovery court cases and KM blogs provide worthy critiques of keyword searching as an inadequate way of retrieving knowledge.
Recently I have taken a more in-depth view of the next-generation of search, known as concept, natural language or semantic search. The basic goal
After posting yesterday on LinkedIn Does KM, I went back to further investigate the Company Groups tool to see what else I could learn about it. But it was gone! I came up with five possibilities.
1) Someone had flagged me as not employed by The Firm. Possible, but not likely since relatively few
We’ve been keeping our eye on LinkedIn with the basic assessment that it
has great potential, but needs more tools. A network of valuable
contacts becomes truly valuable when you can actually do things with it.
Recently LinkedIn took another step in adding just these types of tools.
When I logged in I noticed some
Last week I was able to meet with Dan Ranta. Dan is the KM guy for ConocoPhillips. I had seen him give a presentation on KM in the energy industry and followed up with a personal contact. As a result I spent some time at his shop, picking his brain, seeing his stuff and
Listening to the 2nd installment of Obama vs. McCain last night, I heard both of the candidates say that one of the best ways to make health care in America more affordable is to improve the technology and make patient records available
We here at the Geeklawblog discuss a lot on the topics of Knowledge Management, Marketing, Research and Competitive Intelligence. On the surface, these ideas tend to mean the “repackaging of existing data into usable information for the benefit of those in our firm.” In other words, we attempt to create a way to make our
In a week and a day, Nevada steps up with a new law requiring encryption of electronically transmitted personal information.
NRS 597.970 Restrictions on transfer of personal information through electronic transmission.
[Effective October 1, 2008.] 1. A business in this State shall not transfer any personal information of a customer through an electronic transmission other
My co-blogger Greg has already posted a great list of DR lessons, so I thought I would add a thought of my own.
My DR/KM recommendation is for an organization, instead of individuals. For the duration of Ike and his aftermath, I have lived electronically on my BlackBerry. I tried not to complain