Many of you have probably played Boardroom Bingo, Buzz-word Bingo, or maybe even Consultant-Speak Bingo… I thought I’d get your Friday started right with a friendly game of Twitter Bingo.
Take a look at the Bingo card below, and whip out your handy-dandy bingo marker (a dark highlighter will work, too) and mark off each
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While attending the AALL Futures Summit last week, I got to talk with a number of young members (those within the first five years of the law library profession) and found the discussion to be absolutely wonderful and enlightening. I have a number of topics that I’ll probably blog upon over the
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
The saying goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. The same could be said of information/media/current awareness in a law firm. We can lead our lawyers to the content but there is no way to ensure they read …or is there?
We are currently in the process of
It has been almost a month since my trip to Philly for the 2011 annual SLA conference and INFO-EXPO. Over the course of the month, I have been thinking about what lessons I learned, and what I took away from the conference, and after letting it all stew, I am ready to share my
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Whenever I am in a room that is discussing how to handle “information overload” there usually comes a point in the conversation when someone says “I just don’t know how people can monitor all that information – blogs, twitter, email, professional reading, etc. – and still handle all the demands of
The other day, I was cruising around on the internet and I came across the EPA’s web site.
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Whether you call them Social Media Consultants or Social Media Gurus, there are people out there that are more than ready to come in and work with you to set up a social media policy and explain the ropes of the social media world for lawyers and law firms. In
Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn, Oh My!
March 11-12, 2011
First, before I begin, I would like to thank Saskia Melhorn for asking me to speak here at the joint Houston Area Law Librarian/SouthWest Area Law Librarian Meeting. I spoke here two years