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Archive for May, 2008

Enterprise 2.0 Schedule

In browsing through the schedule for the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 Conference, I thought it would be easier to schedule my days using a calendar. So I put the events I am attending (and presenting) onto a public Google calendar: Doug Cornelius at Enterprise 2.0. The calendar is embedded below. Those of you who followed by [...]

Model Real Estate Development Operating Agreement from the American Bar Association

The February 2008 edition of The Business Lawyer contains a report on Model Real Estate Development Operating Agreement with Commentary [pdf. ABA membership logon required]. The model agreement was put together by a Joint Task Force of Committee on LLCs, Partnerships and Unincorporated Entities and the Committee on Taxation, ABA Section of Business Law. Here [...]

Real Judges Have Blogs

Today’s Boston Globe has a Page One article on US district Court Judge Nancy Gertner and her blogging activities: Off the Bench, Judge Blogs Her Mind. To those of you who read Robert Ambrogi’s Law Sites, you have already heard this story about Slate.com’s Convictions Blog. I was surprised to see the Globe put it [...]

Rev. Proc. 2008-28 and Foreclosure Relief for Securitizations

The Internal Revenue Service issued Revenue Procedure 2008-28 [.PDF ] which provides for the modification of certain mortgage loans will not jeopardize the favorable tax treatment of the capital structure for certain securitization capital structures. One issue impacting the downturn in the real estate market is the inability of some lenders to revise the loan [...]

Enterprise 2.0 Conference Boston

The schedule of programs for the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston is finalized. If you take a look at Tuesday at 2:15 you will see that I am on the panel: What Blogging Brings to Business. Jessica Lipnack is moderating the panel consisting of me, Bill Ives, Patti Anklam and Caesar Brea. There are some [...]

Six Dimensions of Understanding Media

As readers, you realize that I am an avid consumer and tester of social media and new communication tools. An article in the MIT Sloan Management Review helped put the testing of these tools into focus for me: The Six Key Dimensions of Understanding Media. JoAnne Yates, Wanda J. Orlikowski and Anne Jackson propose a [...]

Managing EMail – Policy and Practical Options

The panel started off with the David Spade Blackberry Intervention video. Everyone agreed that we have attorneys like this who need an intervention. But is it a technology problem or a business process problem? The emphasis is on records management of which email management is a part. One panelists played an internal video showing the [...]

Enterprise Search – A Pragmatic View

These are my notes from a panel on enterprise search. One panelist pointed out that enterprise search may be reaching too far. They will not be able to get every silo. You should just try to get most of the silos. The first question was “make it like Google.” The first response was to have [...]

Where is Web 2.0 in the Enterprise?

Michael Idinopulos, the Vice President of Professional Services at Social Text presented on “Where is Web 2.0 in the Enterprise?” for the afternoon session at the Legal IT Leadership Summit. Michael is also the author of the Transparent Office. Michael helped bring McKipedia to McKinsey. It was an internal wiki to help organize information. He [...]

Serving Multiple Generations Presentation at the Legal IT Leadership Summit

This morning’s keynote session is “Serving Multiple Generations – The Role of Web 2.0 and Strategies for IT.” Andrew McAfee is the presenter with myself and Jason Lichter as co-panelists. The session is planned to be released in a wiki later this month. Andy got into this space three or four years ago when he [...]

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