Legal Research

The Law Librarian Talk Show: Resources Used in Law Firms

Posted on September 08, 2009
I'm back from a fabulous vacation where I had a chance to recharge my batteries, and am now in the process of catching up. One thing I missed was participating in the latest episode of The Law Librarian talk show/podcast on BlogTalk Radio. The latest episode recorded on Friday--What's Real in the Real World?--focusses on resources used in law firm libraries...

Libraries of the Future

Posted on August 20, 2009
I'm heading out for a couple weeks' vacation. I have *so many things* lined up for this blog, but alas it will have to wait. In the meantime, here is an interesting video (running just over 9 minutes) about what the future of libraries will be, put together by JISC in the UK...

The Best Canadian Law Firm Website

Posted on August 14, 2009
Yes, I have had my head down working. Yes, I am still alive and kicking. So many things to tell you dear readers about! Here is a quick one for now--from Mitch Kowalski at the Financial Post's Legal Post blog:Jordan Furlong, editor of the Canadian Bar Association's magazine, The National, has rounded up a group of writers who focus on innovative legal practices and tasked them with selecting the top websites by a Canadian law firm...

15 Key Observations by Bob Pearson

Posted on July 07, 2009
Tonight I am attending Third Tuesday Toronto with speaker Bob Pearson, President of the Social Media Business Council (formerly Blog Council); also formerly of Dell.http://Twitter.com/bobpearson187515 Key Observations about big business and social media1...

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Happy Canada Day & the Story of the Six String Nation Guitar

Posted on July 01, 2009
It's that time of year when we kick back and appreciate how lucky we are to be in Canada.Not quite two weeks ago I was in Kingston, Ontario with friends attending Podcasters Across Borders, an annual conference for (you guessed it) podcasters. Each year we come from Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and further afield in Canada, U...

Connie Crosby's Top 6 Ways to Find Out What's Going On

Posted on June 10, 2009
And It's A WrapOriginally uploaded by LexnGerMy friend and colleague Wendy Reynolds recently asked me to write about how I keep up. The answer really comes in three parts:(1) How do I find out about groups and events?(2) What groups do I belong to or meet with?(3) What events are coming up?Let me tackle the first one in this post...

SLA Toronto presents... Best of the Web

Posted on June 02, 2009
I will be moderating the upcoming SLA Toronto session, a tour of four librarians' top research websites. It should be a fun evening--I hope you will join us!SLA Toronto presents ?.Best of the WebJoin friends and colleagues for an interesting and informative evening!Speakers from a variety of special libraries will show the top 10-20 sites in their area of research...

50 Best Blogs for Law Librarians

Posted on May 20, 2009
The folks at Online University Lowdown have put together their listing of the 50 Best Blogs for Law Librarians. Some fantastic blogs! I wanted to point out those of a few friends that have been included:Vancouver Law Librarian Blog by Steve Matthews Strategic Librarian by Nina Plattlaw...

Toronto Events You Should Know About

Posted on May 06, 2009
I run around to a lot of great events. Sometimes I mention them on Twitter or Facebook, but if you don't happen to be following me at the time I post, you probably miss them. There are SO MANY amazing events happening in this great city, it is easy to miss some good ones...

Women?s Law Association of Ontario - Alternative Careers in Law

Posted on April 23, 2009
The Women's Law Association of Ontario (WLAO) and the Law Society of Upper Canada will be presenting a program on alternative careers in law the evening of May 6th. From the program:Not sure if your hard-earned law degree gives you what you need? Ready for a career change or just interested in learning about the hidden opportunities in and outside of law? Join us for our 3rd Annual panel of successful and influential women lawyers who have found their niche...

LegalIT 3.0: Achieving the Paper LESS (TM) Office

Posted on April 20, 2009
Liveblogged at the Legal IT 3.0 conference in Montreal. Any error or omissions are my responsibility, not that of the presenters. Target audience are lawyers in firms and counsel in organizations. Ross L. KodnerMicrolawHis CLE materials are available on the Microlaw website...

LegalIT 3.0: 90+ Legal Tech Tips in 90 Minutes

Posted on April 20, 2009
Liveblogged at Legal IT 3.0 in Montreal. Some of these tips are excellent time-saving tips, others are tongue-in-cheek. I didn't catch all of them! But here are the ones I did--- Ross L. KodnerMetadata removal - Metadata Assistant from Payne GroupGoogle Chrome browserUltimate Gear Management Clothing - carry all of your gadgets! Fill all the pockets before going through airport securityNeatReceipts - scanner plugs into PC $230 US - the software takes the receipt and recognized the information on the receipt, categorizes it, puts it into a spreadsheet that can be exported as a Quickbooks format - extremely accurateRemote-Controlled Golf Ball - fool the people you are golfing withElectronic charging stations for all your gadgetsDisposing of old PC systems - beware packed with confidential client information - how can you eradicate this information - "electronic shredders" delete the data - he recommends the Red Dragon Jet Torch Kits iPhone - he thinks the keyboard has to improve before widespread adoption by lawyersVirtual law practices - onebox...

Legal IT 3.0 Conference - Montreal April 20 & 21, 2009

Posted on March 26, 2009
I will be speaking at the upcoming Legal IT 3.0 conference in Montreal. I will be part of a panel with Steve Matthews and Kevin O?Keefe discussing how lawyers and law firms can go beyond having a website to build a better web presence.For more information, please see my Crosby Group Connection blog post, or better yet visit the Legal IT website directly...

Ada Lovelace Day 2009: Dr. Margaret Ann Wilkinson

Posted on March 24, 2009
I decided to take part in the first Ada Lovelace Day by writing about someone who we rarely (if ever) hear about in the blawgosphere, but who had done work in librarianship, information, intellectual property and technology law and is a fellow Canadian: Dr...

Third Tuesday Toronto: Talk by Mathew Ingram of the Globe & Mail

Posted on March 24, 2009
Third Tuesday Toronto: Mathew Ingram of the Globe & MailMathew Ingram is a former columnist, reporter and blogger. He is @mathewi on Twitter. http://www.mathewingram.com/work. He is now the communities editor for the Globe & Mail.This is a repeat of the session he did at Podcamp Toronto but will give us lots of opportunity to ask questions...

Information Management Fundamentals - March 27, 2009

Posted on March 22, 2009
Great news for those wishing to take some or all of the courses in the Information Management Certificate I just wrote about.To take any of the courses in the Practitioner's Toolkit courses or the Manager's Toolkit Courses, you need to have at least one of the two introductory IM courses as a prerequisite...

Connie Crosby's 7 Reasons for Taking an Information Management Certificate

Posted on March 22, 2009
Last month I wrote about starting on the new Information Management Certificate from the Professional Learning Centre (the PLC) at the iSchool at Toronto. Since that time, I have completed the two introductory courses with Deirdre Grimes and Ivan Welsh, including handing in the assignments, and just finished attending the Information Management Analyses course with Janet de Guzman and have to work on the assignment...

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Posted on March 04, 2009

Understanding the Facebook Terms of Service from Rocketboom

Posted on February 20, 2009
Long-time readers of this blog know I am a fan of the video show Rocketboom. At Podcamp Halifax in January I had the pleasure of being able to hang out a bit with Rocketboom's creator Andrew Baron. This video exemplifies why I am such a fan--the show is smart, informative, and entertaining at the same time...

Government and Public Policy in a New Collaborative Age

Posted on February 09, 2009
I have been following the conversations around how social media and collaboration are slowly making in-roads into citizens and government working together toward jointly-developed public policy. Not surprisingly, the road to "Government 2.0" is not always an easy one...

New Information Management Certificate at University of Toronto's PLC

Posted on February 09, 2009
As someone who teaches at the Professional Learning Centre at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, I help to spread the word about their various excellent programs. Their new Information Management Certificate has me even more excited than most! A lot of the work I do touches on either information management or knowledgement management (and I am sure there are plenty of overlaps between these areas)...

Wikis as Intranets

Posted on February 09, 2009
Today over on the Slaw post Collaboration Through Wikis: Law Firm Case Study I pull together a presentation and a write-up about a project to implement a wiki platform as an intranet by the Toronto-based law firm Hicks Morley. Heather Colman, Knowledge Management Specialist, spearheaded the project for them and describes in detail how this project was conceived and implemented over on LLRX...

New Dean Starts at University of Toronto's Faculty of Information

Posted on January 21, 2009
I just received the press release below about the new iSchool dean. I have been impressed with the school as of late, all the positive forward-looking changes, and have to admit feeling jealous of the students attending today. They are learning some very interesting things! I find some of the new dean's thoughts interesting, especially the idea of establishing an undergraduate program...

New: Lawyer Addiction Blog

Posted on January 19, 2009
For a change of pace my colleague Steve Matthews, known for hard-core legal information blogs such as LegalPubs.ca, Canadian Law Blogs, Florida Lawyers Blog Watch, and the DUI Lawyer Blog Watch, is now giving back to the legal community by using his skills to create and run the new Lawyer Addiction Blog...

Seen Reading: Torontonians are still reading books

Posted on January 11, 2009
Anyone who rides the Toronto transit knows that people find ways to close themselves off from everyone else, usually either by wearing headphones to listen to music (if you see me with headphones, I'm more likely listening to spoken word in the form of business podcasts) and by reading...

Who is Canada's Most Influential Woman in Social Media?

Posted on December 30, 2008
Well, I've resisted blogging about this up until now, but my excitement has gotten the better of me. A short while ago Canadian marketer Dave Forde started putting together a list of most influential Canadian women in social media. I was nominated to the list (a fantastic honour!) and then Dave opened it up for voting...

2008 Blawggies - Law-related Blogging Awards Announced

Posted on December 22, 2008
I recently told you about the a href="http://www.clawbies.ca/2008-clawbies-coming-soon/"upcoming 2008 Clawbies/a. Well, yesterday a href="http://www.denniskennedy.com/index.aspx"Dennis Kennedy /areleased his a href="http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/2008/12/dennis_kennedys_2008_lawrelated_blogging_awar...

New Facebook Feature: Embed Videos onto Other Sites

Posted on December 10, 2008
Below is a video I recorded with my macbook directly into Facebook. I noticed a new feature that allows the video to be "embedded" (or posted) onto another site, so I am trying it out. Details below the video on how I did it. I took the embed code and put it into the HTML editor here on Blogger...

2008 CLawBies - Nominations Now Open for the Canadian Law Blog Awards

Posted on December 08, 2008
Steve Matthews of Stem Legal is again running his Canadian Law Blog Awards (a.k.a. the CLawBies). He is, however, changing things up by asking us, his readers, to nominate our favourite Canadian law blogs. From his post:2008 Nominations Between now and Friday December 27th, you may nominate a Canadian authored legal blog in one of two possible ways...

Happy Movember!

Posted on December 01, 2008
Only a day late--November was "Movember". The Canadian campaign raised $550,000 in November 2007. Your Canadian donation goes to the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada.

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