As much fun as I have talking shop about Thomson Reuters or LexisNexis on the blog… I also like to have some geeky fun with online resources like WolframAlpha. Today, I thought I’d walk through ten cool searches (some of them may actually be useful, too… but mostly they are just for fun.
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I had planned on writing an extensive review on the new release of LexisNexis’ “Lexis Advance” platform like I did back in March on their Advance for Associates platform. However, Bob Ambrogi did such a great job of it over at his LawSites blog, that I really didn’t want to re-hash what Bob already
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I wanted to start out this post by announcing that we are putting the Elephant Posts to sleep at the end of the year, and that we will spend the last five posts (in December) as a remembrance to the mighty Elephant that entertained and informed us for the 15 months. Mostly because
Pushing one social media stream to another is nothing new. I’ve been pushing my Google Reader updates to an automated Twitter feed for many months now, and my Twitter feed goes automatically to my LinkedIn profile. However, these tend to be pretty automated processes, without a lot of flexibility built into that process. If you’re
If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time, you probably know that we are big fans of the arts around here. Lisa is a writer and designer, as well as a poet… Did you know that Toby was a bassist in a rock band and one time played the Terrace Ballroom in Salt Lake City?
In the past couple of weeks, the free online resource, join.me, has saved me during a couple of training episodes. The first time was working with a consultant and attempting to explain what a program looked like on my desktop and how it displayed information. It was difficult attempting to describe everything that was
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We love looking at new products and hearing about products from our peers. This week we decided to try to urge some peers to chime in on the Elephant Post and let us know of some products they’ve been looking at, and though we should as well. We have a few,
When Google announced it would be accepting requests for testers for its new cloud-based Music Beta platform, I immediately sent in my request. After a couple of weeks of waiting… and assuming that I wouldn’t be invited… I finally got my invite and jumped in with both feet. After a couple of days of
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Hopefully that title just made you start humming the Beastie Boys song. If it did, see me in Philly at the Summit and I’ll buy you a beer.
I’ve always been a fan of visualizing information in unique ways. I stumbled upon an app this week that does just that sort of thing