Legal Research

JD Supra Launches Facebook App

Posted on November 21, 2008
When I was in California for the Internet Librarian conference in October, I was fortunate to also head to San Francisco and meet with some of the folks from legal documents sharing service JD Supra. They hinted that some new developments were just around the corner, and I'm pleased to announce that they have now released a Facebook application...

Innovation in Tough Economic Times

Posted on November 15, 2008
This Thursday I will be facilitating a roundtable discussion at the next Toronto Girl Geek Dinners. I have been attending meetings of this group for about a year, and have found them to be very collegial. It is a fantastic group of interesting women from a range of industries...

If the Matrix was on Windows

Posted on November 10, 2008
For anyone who is a fan of The Matrix, this one's for you from College Humor. Very well done with some new classic lines--See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.More on Ubuntu.Hat tip to Kevin Lim for the link.

New Business Books - Don Tapscott and Shel Holtz

Posted on November 05, 2008
This week I learned about three new business books that have just been released that you should know about. I have one in my hot little hands, and the others two I have ordered from my favourite business bookstore, Books for Business.Monday night I attended the book launch party for Don Tapscott's latest offering, Grown Up Digital...

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Community Divas Episode 6: Adele McAlear on Video

Posted on October 27, 2008
Anyone who saw my presentation about audio & video tools for Internet Librarian 2008, or who has been interested in the discussion via seesmic going on in this blog, will also be interested in the discussion Eden Spodek and I had recently with Adele McAlear of McAlear Marketing...

Internet Librarian 2008 - Closing Keynote with Liz Lawley

Posted on October 23, 2008
I didn't blog Liz Lawley's talk, but she moved through a number of "tangibles" that librarians should be aware of, many of them in the form of new technologies, gadgets, and hands-on tech and craft projects. I grabbed an excerpt of her talk in video for you:Internet Librarian 2008: Liz Lawley closing keynoteTalking about the tangible of today's society.

Internet Librarian 2008 - Connie's Day 2 Wrap-up

Posted on October 22, 2008
In this seesmic video I give a wrap-up of Day 2, talking about my new inspiration to get out and use easy web-based video to tell people's stories.Internet Librarian - Connie's Day 2 Wrap-upConnie talks about being newly inspired at Internet Librarian...

Internet Librarian 2008 - Day 3 Afternoon

Posted on October 22, 2008
I am in one of the last sessions for this year's Internet Librarian conference. I took the opportunity to introduce you to the people I am sitting with waiting for the session by Steven Cohen. I also captured a little video from Steven's talk.This is Steven Cohen on Google Reader...

Internet Librarian 2008: Defining & Measuring Social Media Success

Posted on October 22, 2008
Jeff Wisniewskijeffw@pitt.eduHow do you measure? Is 2 comments a week good, bad?Why be social?marketing yourself without doing traditional marketingGoogle page rank improves the more social you are; critical for librariesmost of the people using social media, vast majority are anxious to interact with you and your organization online...

Ottawa Course - Social Networking Tools: Hands on learning

Posted on October 22, 2008
I am teaching my Social Networking Tools survey course in Ottawa again. The school tells me that the November 17th class is now full, but there are spots remaining in the Tuesday, November 18th class. Please don't wait to sign up!For details about the class and registering, please see the Professional Learning Centre course description...

Internet Librarian 2008 - My Presentation on Instant Audio & Video

Posted on October 21, 2008
I have posted my presentation from this afternoon, Instant Audio & Video: Tools Igniting the Digital World has now been posted to my Crosby Consulting Connection blog. I've also posted some bonus demo videos. Enjoy!If you are looking for presentations by other speakers, many are being collectively posted to the IL2008 event on Slideshare...

Internet Librarian - Stephen Abram on Enterprise Trends

Posted on October 21, 2008
Enterprise Trends: Beyond the Simple IntranetThis presentation will be posted to Stephen Abram's blog http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/.Connie's note: These are notes from Stephen's talk. Any errors or omissions are mine.You need to be ahead of the curve...

Connie Crosby - Upcoming Events

Posted on October 20, 2008
Here is where you can catch me the next few weeks:Internet Librarian - Monterey, CaliforniaMonday, October 20, 20084:15 PM ? 5:00 PMInstant Audio & Video: Tools Igniting the Digital WorldConnie Crosby, Principal, Crosby Consulting GroupNo time to learn how to podcast or make videos? Seesmic, Utterli, ooVoo, BlogTV, Qik, and Talkshoe are just a few of the new audio and video tools letting people create their own instant web content with a small learning curve...

Internet Librarian International 2008 - Can't be there in person?

Posted on October 17, 2008
This year's Internet Librarian International looks, as usual, excellent. I found this perhaps a little late--a widget with rolling photos and tweets (via Twitter) from conference participants to make me feel a little more like I am there:Thanks also to Åke Nygren for sharing his presentation on the build-it-yourself social network site Ning, itself built on a Ning site: http://2008ningthings...

Connie Crosby is Now Podcasting - Community Divas

Posted on September 30, 2008
This summer my friend Eden Spodek, a communications specialist known for her blog Bargainista.ca and one of my fellow Podcamp Toronto organizers, and I dared each other to start podcasting. What better way to fulfill that dare than to create that podcast together?!Thus Community Divas was born! Our goal is to interview leaders in a wide range of communities, and talk about issues in building online communities...

Product Recalls and Taking Corporate Responsibility

Posted on September 24, 2008
Wherever I turn today, I am running into news about recalls:news that the horrific tainted milk scandal in China, where almost 53,000 children are sick and 13,000 are currently in hospital, has now led to a second recall in Canada. On Sunday there was a recall of Nissin Cha Cha Dessert and yesterday Ottawa recalled certain types of Mr...

Update: recruiting with social networks & a new law KM online group

Posted on September 17, 2008
Hi folks! Here are a few of my recent blog posts you might be interested in:On my business blog Connection I shared some of the resources I used and some of the websites we looked at during a workshop I taught last week on recruiting using Facebook and other social networks...

Kick-start your Monday with the Hi-Fi Sci-Fi Library

Posted on August 24, 2008
WARNING: this song will get stuck in your head. You are warned!!This video is by Michael Porter and David Lee King, created for Michael's upcoming presentation to the Library and Information Technology Association (or LITA, a branch of the American Library Association)...

Six Random Things

Posted on August 17, 2008
Every once in a while a meme goes around the blogging world, and sometimes I play along while other times I don't. Just depends on the mood I'm in.This weekend I was at a Niagara Podcasting & Social Media Meetup, and saw my podcasting friend Daniele Rossi...

Connie Crosby's Day Off, or How Twitter Decided We Needed a Break

Posted on August 04, 2008
Funny things happen when I go off-line for any length of time. In the case of this weekend, I signed off mid-afternoon Friday to head for a workout and then meet a family member who was arriving in town to visit for the long weekend. While out I tried to send a message to my Twitter followers via my cell phone, but it didn't work as expected so I sent the "tweet" a second time...

Use That iPod! Latest Podcasts with Connie Crosby

Posted on August 01, 2008
Okay, I had the date wrong for the Law Librarians podcast in my last post. As recompense I have put together links to a few other recent podcast episodes that, coincidentally, I have been involved in:Uncontrolled Vocabulary, Episode 52 - Uncontrolled Tech SupportSummary: group phone-in show discussing recent library news...

Law Librarian Podcast - Margie Maes is Next Week's Guest

Posted on August 01, 2008
Law library podcast The Law Librarian is set to continue recording next Friday, August 8th at 3 pm CST. The show is hosted by Richard Leiter and Brian Striman. Today's guest is Margie Maes (some readers may know her as Margie Axtmann), Executive Director of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance, a committee of AALL...

What Does an Earthquake Do to a Library?

Posted on July 30, 2008
Today's news that a moderate earthquake shook California quickly spread through the social networks (well, a 5.8 earthquake isn't moderate in my books!) It was only a matter of time before some video surfaced. I was excited to see that the first footage I saw was of the damage in a library...

Twebinars - Are Webinars Using Twitter Going Too Far?

Posted on July 21, 2008
Anyone who follows my blogging probably knows I'm a bit of a Twitter fanatic. Still, I'm not sure about Twebinars, the new webinar series using Twitter.The current Twebinar series is being sponsored by social media monitoring company Radian6 who, incidentally, are based in Fredericton, New Brunswick (I think that's so cool!)...

Slaw Update

Posted on July 21, 2008
Do you read Slaw, the Canadian co-operative law blog? We're now three years old! I try not to re-post from one blog to the other, but as a result I suspect not everyone reading here knows I post over there as well. I hope to start regularly posting references to Slaw just to help keep track...

Law Library and Legal Vendor Relationships

Posted on July 18, 2008
Over on Slaw today Simon Chester posted excerpts from an article on Law.com by Alvin Podboy called Legal Information Needs a Little Kedging. The subject of library and vendor relations is close to my heart, and I have worked on both TALL and CALL committees over time to help improve relations...

Slaw Post: Viacom Vying for Your YouTube User Records

Posted on July 08, 2008
Yesterday at the Slaw blog I wrote a summary of the Viacom v. Google order that came out, ordering Google to release YouTube user records to Viacom.I'm in the middle of reading Joseph Jaffe's latest book Join the Conversation (disclosure: I have a review copy for the purposes of blogging about the book) and see he anticipated this controversy...

Steve Matthews on Rogers' Canadan iPhone Pricing

Posted on July 08, 2008
I can't help but agree with Steve Matthews' assessment of the pricing situation for the to-be-released iPhone from Rogers.It's frustrating. Since I gave my blackberry back when I left my law firm I'm been holding off getting any sort of PDA or smart phone to see what would happen...

Quickscribe - B.C. Legislation service evaluated in White Paper by Crosby Group

Posted on June 26, 2008
One of my first efforts as Crosby Group has been evaluating the B.C. legislation tracking/research service Quickscribe. An excerpt of the press release is below. I hope you find this report useful, and would love to hear your comments! Feel free to post feedback here or email me at conniecosby@gmail...

Crosby Group Website Up!

Posted on June 26, 2008
I am pleased to announce my new business website for Crosby Group Consulting, http://www.crosbygroup.ca, is now up and running! I also have a new blog called "Connection" at http://www.crosbygroup.ca/blog which will focus on community, social networking tools, and management strategy...

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