Archive for June, 2008

Waking the Sleeping Giant–the Legal Profession and Social Media

Posted on June 10, 2008. Filed under: New Media 101, Social Media, Web 2.0 |

The following is my Daily Record column from the past week, entitled “Waking the Sleeping Giant.”
A pdf of the article can be found here and my past articles can be accessed here.
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Waking the Sleeping Giant

A year ago (a law firm) commissioned a song celebrating (their nomination as one of the best companies to work for)…
The law [...]

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How do you find the time? You use the tools . . . like RSS

Posted on June 8, 2008. Filed under: Internet 101 | Tags: , , |

Lawyers deal in information and the flow of it these days can drive you to much more than distraction. One thing I’ve heard over and over again when people talk about blogs and the new media is “how do you find the time . . . ?” How? I use the tools. [...]

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Web 2.0 Collides with e-Discovery

Posted on June 6, 2008. Filed under: Social Media, Web 2.0 |

There’s an interesting Law.com article that charts the collision of Web 2.0 with e-discovery.
For starters, this article offers a great, basic introduction to the concept of Web 2.0.  It also highlights the importance of understanding the basics of Web 2.0 as it relates to discovery requests in litigation.  
In short, if you don’t understand the [...]

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Free Voice Control for Power Point Presentations

Posted on June 4, 2008. Filed under: New Resources, Uncategorized |

Lifehacker had a really interesting post the other day about using speech recognition to control Power Point presentations–an idea that many a lawyer might find to be intriguing.  And, some lawyers might even consider it to be a form of Nirvana–not that I’m  friends with any of those types.  
First, you download Microsoft’s new freeware tool, [...]

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Why in the world should lawyers be concerned with social media?

Posted on June 1, 2008. Filed under: Networking, Social Media, Web 2.0 | Tags: |

Because, it’s the wave of the future, that’s why.  Those who “get it” will have a distinct advantage over those who refuse to acknowledge its existence.  
Of course, my assertion begs the question:  what is social media?  Via LawyerKM :: Knowledge Management & Technology for Lawyers and Law Firms and Real Lawyers Have Blogs, I learned of [...]

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