Posts Tagged ‘Blogs’
Join us for Imagining Web 2.0 in Your Organization: Thinking Inside the Blog presented by Cindy Chick on May 7th, Noon – 1:00 CDT.
Are you hoping to follow hot topics, supplement training, market your department, monitor legislation, or create a knowledgebase? Use a blog for these types of initiatives and more. For the most part, Blog applications are only limited by your imagination. Blogs are simple but powerful tools for organizing and sharing information that are often underestimated and underutilized.
Cindy will discuss the variety of ways you can use these mini-content management applications in your firm, review some of the more popular blog tools, including SharePoint (still one word but with a capital P) . You’ll learn how to setup a blog, and organize your content.
Who should attend? Anyone who is interested in implementing blogs in a law firm environment including:
- Library Directors
- Library Staff
- Knowledge Managers
- Technology Managers
FEE: $30.00 USD per participant
$60.00 USD for 2 or more participants within a single organization
Speaker: Cindy Chick, Global Manager of Knowledge Systems, Latham & Watkins LLP
Cindy works closely with the library, docket, records and knowledge management groups to help define and implement technology-focused solutions in her current role as Global Manager of Knowledge Systems. She was co-editor/publisher of LLRX.com for 6 years, and has been published in the American Lawyer, Searcher, PLL Perspectives and Online Magazine as well as speaking for a number of conferences and programs. Cindy maintains a blog called LawLibTech.com, “a conversation on law library technology and knowledge management.” Her most recent project is called CarGoDogs.com, a web site for those who travel with their dogs. Moderator:
Moderator: Nina Platt, Principal Consultant, Nina Platt Consulting, Inc.
Owner and principal consultant, Nina Platt, is a former law librarian and AmLaw 100 firm library director who has worked in law firms since 1986. Her work in the libraries use of technology has spanned all those years. She has written and delivered numerous articles, presentations, and papers on library and knowledge management topics.
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May 21st – Imagining Web 2.0 in Your Organization: The Wonderful World of Wikis with Cindy Chick
Wikis are easily the fastest way to create mini-web sites on the Intranet or Internet, making them a good tool of choice for many knowledge applications. Wikis can be used to track the status of a project, compile deal documents with commentary, build a small intranet, or collaborate on a procedures manual.
We’ll discuss the variety of wiki tools available and identify wiki pitfalls and limitations.
Who should attend? Anyone who is interested in implementing wikis in a law firm environment including:
- Library Directors
- Library Staff
- Knowledge Managers
- Technology Managers
Questions? Contact Emily Harder – eharder@ninaplatt.com or 612-235-7488
PCWorld and WebWire report that Forrester Research released Forrester TechRadar for Information and Knowledge Management Pros: Enterprise 2.0last week predicting the Enterprise 2.0 applications that will take hold in the near future. According to PCWorld:
The report suggests that only two of the myriad tools commonly grouped in the Enterprise 2.0 category — social networks and wikis – will find significant success in the corporate market over the next few years. Widgets, mashups, blogs, RSS and forums may find moderate success, while microblogs, prediction markets, social bookmarking and podcasts will have only minimum penetration in the enterprise, the report said.
The WebWire article/press release, Forrester Projects Which Enterprise Web 2.0 Collaboration Technologies Will Grow, Which Will Decline, provides additional information suggesting that social networks, wikis, blogs and RSS will continue to experience growth.
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~ Nina Platt
Helen Day’s article, Self-Service Publishing: Implement with Care, posted on the Intranet Benchmarking Forum on January 14th discusses how care is needed in the implementation of these important web tools. Besides a great list of tips, the most interesting observation made in the article is to take care not to introduce Wikis and Blogs until formal publishing processes are in place. She warns:
… it’s important to provide Wikis and Blogs only after processes for publishing “formal” information channels to the Intranet are well established. If the right people are publishing to the right place on the Intranet, and there is good editorial workflow and governance, then the Intranet is sturdy enough to add an open, less-structured layer of content. If there are no good controls in place, then handing everyone a Wiki to use will blur the lines between informal and formal communication. What’s worse, it may threaten the information structure needed to support robust personalization and effective information discovery.
Good advice.
~ Nina Platt
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