Information management

Feeding the five thousand (and more)

There’s a gathering clamour amongst law librarians for publishers to provide new book title information via RSS feeds. Connie Crosby’s call is echoed by lo-fi Librarian and James Mullan at LI Issues. This is not perhaps the most exciting type of current awareness information that might spring to the creative minds in the publishing houses, […]

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Communicate, share, collaborate

We talk a lot about public blogs and wikis, so it’s good to get a report of the benefits and potential of their use internally within a large law firm. In the latest issue of Legal Technology Journal from Legalease (print on paper), Ruth Ward, head of knowledge sytems and development at Allen & Overy, […]

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Let’s get social

Blog software is what is these days called “social software” – software “which enables people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate through computer-mediated communication and to form online communities.” Unlike other communities which exist in a particular space (like MySpace, a wiki etc), the blogosphere is a virtual space, created principally by the links to other […]

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Web-enabled document management system

An innovative and unique new online document management service, General Counsel Direct, has just been launched. GCD allows businesses to upload all crucial documentation so that officers, advisors and business partners and relevant employees can retrieve it with a web browser. By establishing user privileges, specific workgroups can collaborate through the internet on clients or […]

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Legal information management weblogs

Three weblogs focussing on legal information management have been added to our blog links (bottom right) and are well worth bookmarking. Better still add their RSS feeds to your feedreader. [What’s RSS?] Excited Utterances by Joy London, trainer at Allen & Overy, USA – on law firm knowledge management Feedmelegal by a lawyer in private […]

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