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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.

Re: I Don’t Hate PowerPoint

patrickdidomenico — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:32:01 -0000

Thanks, David. We've all suffered the brutality once or twice...

Re: I Don’t Hate PowerPoint

David Hobbie — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:19:14 -0000

Nice post Patrick! I've been thinking about PowerPoint abuse, having witnessed a fair amount, and some quite recently.

Re: The New York Times Chrome Web App is Amazing

Rebecca Gebhardt — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:28:35 -0000

I have heard several people rave about this, so after reading you post I installed it as well. I can see why it's so popular, it really is so simple to view and navigate. Great app.

Re: The New York Times Chrome Web App is Amazing

Danny J — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:32:58 -0000

That is cool! NYTimes just rocked my world.

Re: The New York Times Chrome Web App is Amazing

philippine outsourcing — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:12:28 -0000

Great article! I like the quote. I agree with you that the site is really exemplary and no words can really say what is lacking. Thanks for posting.

Re: Knowledge Management and Legal Project Management

Betsy Munnell — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:48:29 -0000

I am still having trouble getting my arms all the way around KM as a career path--can you point to a article or post that might give me a snapshot of a typical; day or week in the life of a KM worker/manager?

Re: Knowledge Management and Legal Project Management

patrickdidomenico — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:29:31 -0000

Great points, Shy. Thanks for the comment. By the way, Joshua (as always) did a great job yesterday.

Re: Knowledge Management and Legal Project Management

Shy Alter — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:17:11 -0000

LPM is a core business processes - central to matter management and its efficiencies. It is now understood that access to relevant knowledge should be integral to a given process - including the LPM process and matter management in general. So the firm's KM director or KM lawyers should see the emerging LPA zeitgeist as a golden opportunity to further their KM agenda. That said, the logic of having KM 'people' in the firm, conduct, promote and 'own' LPM processes in the firm is coincidental and opportunistic (in the most positive sense) - not necessarily inevitable. Remaining relevant is one motivation for some KM'rs. But I know of firms that welcome LPM initiatives from KM people, simply because they have no one else on board that's better or more qualified. And sometimes, that is good enough.

- Shy Alter

Re: iPads at ILTA (they were everywhere)

Scott Preston — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:13:43 -0000

I took my iPad to every session. I had hoped to use it to take notes and to post tweets about the session. Unfortunately, I had a lot of problems maintaining an Internet connection. In the end, I had to switch back to my laptop because of connectivity issues. Other than the connectivity frustration, the iPad makes perfect sense for a conference.

Re: iPads at ILTA (they were everywhere)

Marcel Lang — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:48:43 -0000

I used my iPad to demo our new product DMS4Legal using the same tools. Created a presentation and use goodreader to show the new product with a lot of screenshots. First day we had some issues with the wifi connection but from day two i even demo the solution using remote desktop app. It was a great ILTA.