A Modest Proposal on the Future of Legal Librarians
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Elephant Post: What is something you can do immediately to be more productive?
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Nobody Puts Knowledge Management In The Corner
Sometimes comments just need to be made into their own postings. Such is the case with Ayelette Robinson’s comment to my post earlier this week on my disappointment with the direction Knowledge Management has taken in law firms. Ayelette took my challenge of calling me an ignorant **** and telling me why my argument…
You Can Call It Knowledge Management If That Makes You Feel Better About Yourself
I have to tell you that coming away from the ARK conference on Knowledge Management, I was a little disappointed with the direction that many of the law firms are taking with the idea of Knowledge Management (KM). Some of the presenters were showing products that were very “flashy” and useful, but weren’t really what…
Elephant Post: "I think you need to look up the meaning of ________. I don't think it means what you think it means."
We are having some fun with this week’s Elephant Post, so you’ll need to follow along with my thinking on this.
In the movie The Princess Bride, there is an exchange between Vizzini and Inigo Montoya. Vizzini keeps saying “INCONCEIVABLE!!” and
Montoya calls him on it:
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Share what you know, the rewards are great.
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Elephant Post: Name Something Transformational That You Learned From Your Boss
IBM's Jeff Jonas: "The Future Doesn't Look Like Tom Cruise in The Minority Report at All"
I just sat down and watched this video from IBM’s Chief Scientist Jeff Jonas, and he gives us a lot of food for thought on why you should first master the concepts of accounting before you try to work on systems that attempt to make sense of data. The main thought on data, context…
Elephant Post: What Do You Spend A Lot of Time, Money and Effort On That Just Isn't Worth It?
Tell us something that you spent a lot of money on, support and promote, but just isn’t worth all the money, time and effort?
This question popped up at one of our “Curry and a Pint Nights” and the group started calling out programs, technology, outsourced materials, and even people as examples. When I asked…









