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Re: Knowledge Management: Not As New As You Might Think

Sue Waller — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:30:30 -0000

who would have thought that there are organisation around and consultants who help organisations share and capture knowledge!

You may wish to check out our 4 part blog series on capturing tacit knowledge;

http://www.kpsol.com/blog/less...

Re: Promoting Knowledge Management: Never Just Give Someone a Fish

C Frappaolo — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:15:47 -0000

Ii really like this post - and the proverb used is a favorite of mine. (In deed, isn't teaching a community to fish what Km is all about). Among the many skills and duties associated with a good KM manager are teaching and marketing, which I think this posts addresses. I would add to your list, lead/teach by example. In our firm, the KM team/dept uses all the tools it provides to the rest of the firm. Our communication to the firm and the training we provide is delivered through the KM system. When asked where something might be found - like you, we include with the response instruction and encouragement to use the system to retrieve content in the future. We highlight in blog posts exemplary usage and participation in the Km system, and have a community of local ambassadors - not KM staff but staff peers - at each office who promote usage and answer questions.

Re: KM 101

adsm — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:30:09 -0000

Hi - the link for the 4th webinar is broken. I found an updated one here: http://law.lexisnexis.com/webc...

Re: KM 101

Taranore — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:56:24 -0000

I am on Linked In as Teresa Pritchard Schoch. Thanks for asking!

Re: ILTA Webinar: The Attorney Personality Profile – Knowing and Harnessing Your Practitioners’ Tendencies

Pooja Marscoders — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:56:55 -0000

This is spectacular! Simply put i appreciate reading your written content everytime I get feed alarm.

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Re: Free ILTA Webinar: Future-Proofing your SharePoint Strategy – August 9, 2012

Patrick DiDomenico — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:09:23 -0000

Thanks for pointing that out, Mr. Grimes! That's what I get for speeding around all day. Not focusing!

Re: Free ILTA Webinar: Future-Proofing your SharePoint Strategy – August 9, 2012

Mr Grimes — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:28:55 -0000

The headline needs some serious "proffreading."

Re: FYI – Your Action is Required

Jonny E — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:38:42 -0000

You know if your using microsoft outlook, like most companies do, you can always mark the e-mail with high importance and followup required.

Re: Knowledge Management and the Simple Stick

Giuliano Chicco — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:15:50 -0000

I've long had a theory that accounted for the popularity of the old Wordperfect with lawyers, and there are still many lawyers around who lament the shift to MS Word.
Click on the Wordperfect icon, and you would get a blank screen and start typing. Nothing on the screen, no prompts or distractions. Simplicity at it finest, plus you got that amazing macro capability.

Re: FYI – Your Action is Required

J Spearing — Mon, 21 May 2012 07:56:38 -0000

How about the ever popular "ASAP" which really has no meaning - "as soon as possible" - it might not be possible until next week or next month so ASAP really doesn't have any urgency about it. Instead, how about QLB (Quick Like Bunny) - now that's pretty fast. Not that it'll catch on, but I'm just saying...

Re: KM 101

Inforama Document — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:01:43 -0000

excellent content and a great source of education for me, Thanks.

Re: KM 101

Teresa Schoch — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:55:28 -0000

I am linking to your article in a KM in law firms article. Is this the most up to date information? Thanks.

Teresa

Re: Blogs and Facebook Posts as Evidence in Lawsuits

Josepito Rosal — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:42:30 -0000

I have attended a weminar for twitter on how to have 100,000 followers in less than 30 days! wow amazing. chicken houses

Re: Blogs and Facebook Posts as Evidence in Lawsuits

Menchu Abellon — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:35:51 -0000

I am using facebook but never been use twitter I think i must try this.. cat trees

Re: Blogs and Facebook Posts as Evidence in Lawsuits

Pinky Smith — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:08:41 -0000

This blog showed From Facebook evidence won in the case. wow great!

Re: Blogs and Facebook Posts as Evidence in Lawsuits

Fretzie Freeling — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:21:00 -0000

Twitter and Facebook are really great for social networking

Re: Blogs and Facebook Posts as Evidence in Lawsuits

Geraldine Scott — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:38:13 -0000

Agree! this is true.. you can have many chances in facebook.

Re: Selling Enterprise Search in Your Law Firm

NABH — Mon, 30 May 2011 06:13:10 -0000

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Re: Social Media

patrickdidomenico — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:43:21 -0000

Here is a Sniply link to the ILTA resources on Social Media http://snip.ly/ai5TC

Re: Social Media

patrickdidomenico — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:39:38 -0000

Thanks to @tqmock for this: Also several sanitized firm #SM policies shared @ last year's #ILTA Conf available here: http://bit.ly/1b8tlU

Re: The Future of Presentations?

patrickdidomenico — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:09:01 -0000

Great points, Paul. I agree that most people just need to up their presentation skills in general (me included). By the way, for that, I love the book The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs (see my KM Library Link at the top of the page). Prezi is an interesting new tool I can certainly see this being a good tool for certain things. But I can also see it losing its novelty after seeing a few Prezis.

Re: The Future of Presentations?

Paul C. Easton — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:23:23 -0000

Meh.

I'm with-holding judgement until I play with Prezi a bit, but I've used Power Point alternatives in the past and keep going back to, and upgrading, Power Point. Power Point presentation sins are sins of the users. Most presentation apps that try to keep presenters chaste tend to force you into a particular model. They always feel limiting. If Prezi's format takes off, all that zooming around would get stale fast.

Maybe we should be focusing on our presentation skills, and own styles, rather than our presentation tools and templates?

As for pricing I have to pay 160 a year for offline capabilities. That's more than PowerPoint 2010. Again, I'll need to play around with it, but it better offer A LOT more than zooming and jumping around a text cloud to justify paying 160/year.

Yes, there is a cheaper 60/year version, but you can't take the presentation off line. As for the free version, it doesn't keep your content private, so I'm not interested in that for anything more than playing around. The 60/year cloud-based version doesn't interest me, not only because the price seems high compared to ownership costs of MS Project and the availability of good free, opensource presentation tools, but also because I have enough to worry about when making a presentation. I don't want to also have to worry about whether the venue will have broadband and what I'll do if they experience a service disruption.

Moreover, if you travel outside of the United States to give presentations, I would think twice about using the cloud-based version of Prezi. Your presentation took much longer to load than it should have. I'm in Taiwan. Granted, I was not on a corp. network when I viewed your presentation, but I can stream YouTube from a restaurant WiFi and over 3G on my phone. A presentation like that should not taken so long to load.

Few cloud-based tools have the infrastructure to provide an excellent experience internationally. Another reason to have the option to download, which means 160 USD a year. That's more than buying a new license of MS PowerPoint every year and a whole lot more than Open Office.

I'm seeing a lot of sizzle and not much steak.

Re: PowerPoint Your Résumé? – A Challenge

John Gillies — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:02:46 -0000

That’s very interesting, Patrick.

I could see two possible scenarios for this sort of a resume, one for use on the lawyer’s bio on the firm website, the other as a marketing tool when looking for a job.

In the first scenario, I don’t know how well this would work if the lawyer’s at one of the larger, staid, stuffy law firms. It’s probably not going to work for that firm’s target market.

If, however, I were in a boutique firm doing IP work, or marketing law, or fashion law (just by way of example), I could see real potential upsides to putting this on my firm’s website. Part of the identity I may be trying to foster is someone who is creative and innovative, and a resume like this, done properly, would send that message.

The second scenario is using this as a resume for a job application. If, for example, I were hiring and I got four “standard” resumes plus one like this that really spoke to the sort of talents that I was looking for, I would absolutely, definitely be intrigued.

Potential employers are always thinking, “What do you have that makes you stand out from the crowd?” In the normal course, you as the employer will ask that of all your applicants, most of whom have resumes that are basically interchangeable.

But if one of those resumes is intelligently different, then my interest would definitely be captured. (I think that the person doing one of these has to be very careful to ensure that the desired result is the one that is actually produced. I’d want to test my PowerPoint resume on a lot of friends to get their honest feedback before I sent it for real.)

From your point of view as the applicant, if the employer’s reaction is, “I HATE THIS!” then maybe that’s not the place for you, so you’ve very quickly limited the pool to places where you feel you might click. (And of course that only works if there is a potential pool of, let’s say, 20 possible employers and you, the applicant, are trying to figure out where you’d fit in best. This wouldn’t really work for, say, first year associates at US firms in 2009 or 2010.) On the other hand, you might very quickly find the places where you’d be compatible. And both parties to this dance would appreciate anything that helps streamline the process and end up with a better hiring decision.

I’ll be very interested to see whether this becomes any sort of a trend.

Re: PowerPoint Your Résumé? – A Challenge

patrickdidomenico — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:21:24 -0000

Looking forward to it, Seth!

Re: PowerPoint Your Résumé? – A Challenge

Seth Cargiuolo — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:43:20 -0000

I am so doing this. I'll get back to you.