The value of Online Social Networks, such as LinkedIn are becoming more of a mainstay in the large law firm arena. Usually the taboos that follow these types of “outside the control of the firm” technologies prevent the use by lawyers or staff of the firm. However, I am seeing a shift in the attitude
Topic Monitoring – (LinkedIn OR Twitter) AND ("law firms")
SEARCH: (LinkedIn OR Twitter) (lawyer OR attorney OR “law firm”)
Perhaps the greatest thing I learned in Library School is the understanding of Boolean Searching. When put in the right context, understanding the proper use of “AND”, “OR”, “BUT NOT” and the proper placement of parenthesise “()” can make your searching a lot better.
More on LinkedIn and Lexis
After not seeing much value in the Martindale-Hubbell – LinkedIn deal and after waiting (and not alone) to see more value come from social networking, I admit Lexis may be on to something. What many of us have been waiting to see is some definable business value to come from social networking. There is
LinkedIn Groups Enhanced on Friday!
LinkedIn is expanding the capabilities of its Group Networks by adding some enhancements. Here is the email that I got on Tuesday. NOTE: The enhancements are ready until FRIDAY!! (I missed that part of the message and started yelling at my computer screen when I couldn’t find the enhancements.) Here’s the announcement:
First, thank you
Hearding E-Mail – Its Better Than Cats….
I’ve always had this dream that when you die, you get a statistical profile of your life when you arrive at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter hands you a notebook (although recently he hands me an Amazon Kindle), with all the things you’ve done while you were alive. How many times did your heart
MH – LinkedIn Go Public
As we previously noted, LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell (MH) and LinkedIn were putting together a deal to integrate their services on some level. This news was first noted on Kevin O’Keefe’s blog, and discussed elsewhere by Larry Bodine and others.
Well – the deal is public now. LexisNexis announced the deal and gave some