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The Legal Case for Web 2.0

Posted on April 30, 2009
A look here by Law.com at how Lawyers in the US are using Social Networking tools to market themselves and develop their legal practices. From the introduction to the article:"...an elite subset of attorneys has decided to go above and beyond the basics, maximizing use of these new online outlets to build law practices in a substantial way...

Can you tame Twitter?

Posted on April 30, 2009
The Anecdote blog has an interesting post on whether it's possible to tame Twitter and email. From the blog post:"I think it's useful to have an analogy to explain how to use a technology. I think of Twitter as like my virtual tea room or cafe. It's the place I go to hear the chatter about what's happening...

Lexis Nexis does Twitter!

Posted on April 27, 2009
I'm a huge fan of Twitter, but had never thought to use it to keep up to date with what Legal Publishers are doing. So I was pleasantly surprised to see that Lexis Nexis are using Twitter with not one but seven different Twitter AccountsOf these I'm currently only following LexisNexis2009 however It got me thinking what if anything are the other legal publishers doing on Twitter?The answer is not much...

Top 10 reasons to become a Librarian

Posted on April 24, 2009
Is a Library the perfect place for you to "shine" according to this article from the Get Degrees Website it certainly is. But what I hear you say are the "Top 10 reasons for becoming a Librarian"1. You Have a Passion for organization2. You Never Want to Stop Learning3...

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The rise of the Knowledge Librarian

Posted on April 21, 2009
An interesting post here from the KM World Blog which looks at how the traditional role of a Corporate Librarian is changing as Libraries come under more and more pressure to cut budgets.So what are the shifts in responsibilites that a Corporate Librarian must make to become a Knowledge Librarian? From the blog post;"Role shift #1: A knowledge librarian should be the "content czar" of the enterprise...

Great Twitter resources

Posted on April 16, 2009
Despite my earlier misgivings...I've become a massive fan of Twitter over the last couple of months moving from the Website to TWhirl to now finally using Tweetdeck. Tweetdeck is a great tool for managing your Tweets and replies you receive. I especially like the integration with Facebook although the email/tweet Facebook status updates can be a bit flaky...

Are you...worth it?

Posted on April 16, 2009
In the Library with the Leadpipe has published an interesting, although US focused post on Return on Investment here. From the Blog post: "Return on investment (ROI) is how much you get back for what you put into something. Strictly speaking, ROI is based on dollars and cents...

We?ve got the technology ? now give us law e-books

Posted on April 15, 2009
An interesting article here on the Law Society Gazette website which asks if the technology exists why haven't more legal publishers made books available in electronic format? From the blog post;"...where are the law texts in new, rights-managed PDF formats? We need legal publishers to wake up to technology like this and get the content out there ? that will drive the competition in the IT market to make devices that are constantly better...

Is It Really Free?

Posted on April 02, 2009
Earlier this month I talked at Managing the evolution of legal Libraries and Information Services. Below are the slides from this presentation. Rather embarassingly I had the most slides across the two days so I'm going to write another presentation which has a lot less slides! In the meantime enjoy although it's not the same without me speaking...

Twitter in Twenty minutes

Posted on April 02, 2009
Twitter and IntuteView more presentations from cfbloke.

Social software adoption...why law firms get it wrong!

Posted on March 23, 2009
A great post here from the Transparent Office blog on why the adoption of Social Software within Law Firms so often goes wrong. From the blog post;"Social software can deliver 3 main patterns of use and value to firms:At the most abstract level, there is general legal know-how: how to be an effective lawyer, how to serve clients, etc...

Just for fun...27 things to do before a Conference

Posted on March 20, 2009
I'm speaking at "Managing the evolution of Legal Libraries and Information Services" next week so Chris Brogan's post on 27 things to do before a Conference seemed very timely.Thn I thought what should you avoid doing at Conference and came up with the following, do post your own suggestions!Leaving the notes accompanying your presentation at home and not realising until 10 minutes before your presentation...

Social Networking...it's not just about the numbers

Posted on March 20, 2009
Social Networking for business what does this mean to you? Collecting business cards? counting the number of subscribers to your blog, the number of connections you have on LinkedIn?Forget about that...numbers when it comes to Social Networking for Business aren't important...

Shiny toys or useful tools?

Posted on March 18, 2009
An interesting albeit very academic article here in the February 2009 edition of Cites and Insights. The article by Walt Crawford looks at how blogs and Wikis have moved from being toys to play with to "tools"[Hat Tip - the iLibrarian]

Email 2.0

Posted on March 16, 2009
The BBC Website has an interesting report on from the South by SouthWest Festival. The article discusses how Status Updates on sites like Facebook, Twitter and Yammer are become much more pervasive. David Sacks, founder of business social network Yammer is quoted in the article saying"We are all in the process of creating e-mail 2...

Legal Librarian Twitters

Posted on March 13, 2009
Jason Plant of the No Option for Law Firm Blog has started a list of Legal IT Twitterers so I thought I'd do the same but for Legal Librarian Twitterers...I can see a trend starting here.Anyway here's the list *note these are people I follow so if you're a Law/Legal Librarian or are a member of BIALL and Tweet then let me know!@jimmy1712 - that's me@jaffne@infobunny@stupidgirl_no1@barbaragordon@ioverlord@littlestar19@loopy_lor@jeiseman@byrnedf@lawbore@mookin@lawlibrarians@neilstewart@jenenifer@marianneber

Resistance to RSS

Posted on March 12, 2009
The first line of this article from the February/March 2009 edition of the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers is "It is human nature that people are resistant to change" oh how true this is especially when it comes to the use of Web 2.0 technologies.Thankfully the author is on hand to provide some tips on how to encourage/convince your employers to start using RSS (the subject of this article)...

Six ways to make Web 2.0 work

Posted on March 10, 2009
I love the McKinsey Quarterly (when I can access the articles that is) and they haven't let me down with this article from the February 2009 edition entitled Six ways to make Web 2.0Nina Platt of the Strategic Librarian summaries the article nicely here...

Should UK Legal Professionals be more in the game?

Posted on March 09, 2009
A short article here from the Law and More Website which is quite interesing. In it they discuss the pros and cons of using Twitter and Facebook with links to some well known legal blogging sites.

Exploiting Web 2.0 - Legal IT Session

Posted on March 05, 2009

Creating better presentations

Posted on March 05, 2009

Five things every legal practice should know about...

Posted on March 05, 2009

Computer Hardware in Plain English

Posted on March 04, 2009

Social networking: privacy and other issues

Posted on February 25, 2009
Yesterday I attended a really interesting seminar hosted by PLC with Lilian Edwards Professor of Internet Law at the University of Sheffield School talking for about why Social Networking Sites matter and some of the privacy issues raised by the use of these sites...

Collaboration through Wikis

Posted on February 12, 2009
An interesting article here in the latest issue of LLRX in it the author (Heather Colman) describes how her firm Hicks Morley chose Domino Wiki as solution for sharing knowledge.This is an interesting article in that it describes the problems fee-earners within her firm faced and why Wikis were identified as the solution...

Speaking engagements 2009

Posted on February 09, 2009
I'm about two months late posting this but better late than never! So despite the credit crunch I'm still going to be very busy writing articles and presenting.Last week I spoke at the Legal IT Show on how Law Firms are exploiting Web 2.0, this was a panel session with Damien Behan of Brodies and Cora Newell from KM Insight Consulting I'm not going to say too much about this here as I plan to write a more detailed post about the session...

The line between personal and professional

Posted on February 09, 2009
Now this is an interesting question and something that I have struggled with (although not literally) for a while now."Where do you draw the line between personal and professional. Do you keep your "friends" in Facebook and your "professional connections" in LinkedIn?"Lets make one thing clear straight away I don't think having your line manager or boss as friend on Facebook or Myspace is a great idea although there many people who do this...

I do run...honest

Posted on February 07, 2009
Anyone who has been following this blog for a while will know that I enjoy running hence the name of the Blog "The Running Librarian" but I haven't posted about any runs in a while. Now I know what you're thinking this is where I roll out the excuses and it's true! This time last year for example I'd run the Dartford 10 Miler and my first 1/2 Marathon at Brands Hatch...

How to become a succesful twitterer...

Posted on February 05, 2009
So you've signed up to Twitter but you're a bit scared and not exactly sure what you're supposed to be doing, Tweets, Twits*, Twonks*, Retweets, Twitpics it's all a bit alien.Never fear, help is here from the iLibrarian and a useful post she has published to her blog called 8 Useful Tips To Become Successful With Twitter this is described as "a useful introduction for Twitter users, both new and experienced" so lets have a look and see how I fare...

Professionals and Web 2.0

Posted on January 30, 2009
The Law Librarian Blog reports here on a White Paper produced by CCH Australia in which they asked (their customers) Professionals about their use of Web 2.0. There were a number of questions, of which CCH identified the following as the most important:How many professionals currently use Web 2...

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