When I worked in academia, we used to joke that universities were great places to work — except for all the students. We loved the ability to work along side bright people, and contemplate new ways of addressing old ideas. The same is true for Social Media. It is a great resource to contemplate new
We are watching the beginnings of the media giants taking over social networking.
I got an inkling of this when I heard that LexisNexis, an online research service, bought Martindale Hubbell, an online legal directory, who in turn partnered with LinkedIn, an online networking site.
Lexis has partnered with Chambers Global, a UK business that
When Lisa, Toby, and I decided (mostly on a whim) to start a blog way back in July, we had no idea that it would be as successful, or as fun as it has turned out to be. We’ve written on issues of Web 2.0 and even 3.0; Knowledge Management in law
I ask a simple question, and I get a simple answer (173 answers to be specific). It all started out with me thinking of some of the posts that we wrote here at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, that probably only got read by a dozen or so people. I thought that I’m probably
I decided earlier this week to ask my Twitter friends a question. In the process I’ve learned a lot of what works, doesn’t work, and that you can hit a Direct Message Limit on Twitter (who knew??) What Works:
Direct Messages (w/Personal Feel)- I liked adding the person’s actual name (even if I had to
Recently I posted on the User Agreement for LinkedIn. And now LinkedIn has decided to make some changes to this agreement. The first curious thing (a.k.a. red flag) was the site let me know when I logged in that changes had been made to the User Agreement. This is not normal. The second thing –
The evolution of the Internet has pushed the ideas of smaller, faster, lighter, and cheaper. For the relaying of personal knowledge via the Internet (which I’m shortening to RPK for this post), the same model seems to apply. The evolution of dissemination of personal knowledge currently has us using Twitter as the medium of choice.
As I was riding in on the bus this morning, I was reading the paper (over one of my fellow passenger’s shoulder, of course) and saw an article in the Houston Chronicle titled “Skip the cuteness on e-mail.” Being too far way from the paper to read the details, I started making up the story
I’ve subscribed to a number of e-mail listservs over the years, and have found that these are becoming less and less useful. Although I’ve hung on and still subscribe to a few choices, I find that I use them more for generic topical information, than I do for specific topic resources. What
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