Ever since the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland wrecked my European vacation (see Doug versus The Volcano), I have been a bit obsessed with the volcano’s activity. I ran across this beautiful time-lapsed video of the continuing eruptions: Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo: “So I saw all of [...]
I turned the “lights out” on KM Space, my blog on knowledge management, enterprise 2.0 and social networking for lawyers. I decided I want to better own and control that content so I have imported nearly all the blog posts from KM Space into DougCornelius.com. All of the imported KM Space posts are under the [...]
On February 17, 2009, Securities Docket is sponsoring a webcast that will look at the numerous ways that securities and compliance counsel and professionals can now use web 2.0 to promote, market, and network themselves, their practices and their firms as never before. Please join Bruce Carton, Editor of Securities Docket, and me for a [...]
CCH gathered some great information on “professionals” using Web 2.0: Professionals and Web 2.0 (.pdf). They interviewed 229 professionals within organizations across the Asia-Pacific region. The report addresses the use of wikis, blogs, social networks, and RSS in Australia, New Zealand and Asia. The respondents consisted of professionals in tax & accounting, legal, HR and [...]
Heather Colman has a piece on the use of wikis at her Canadian firm, Hicks Morley, published on LLRX.com: Collaboration Through Wikis at Hicks Morley. I had the pleasure of meeting Heather back in October and heard her presentation on the selection and adoption of wikis at her law firm. Since our successful launch, 768 [...]
If you are attending Legal Tech in New York next week and you like knowledge management, then go to the ILTA Knowledge Management Cocktail Reception. It takes place Wednesday, February 4th 2009 from 5pm to 7pm at the Bridges Bar in the Hilton. Register for the ITLA KM Cocktail Reception I’ve attended LegalTech and the [...]
Omar Ha-Redeye writes on slaw.ca about two new social networks for lawyers: Lawyrs Looking for Alternative Social Networks and Social Network on Jurafide for American Clients. Jurafide.com is a networking and marketing site that facilitates communication between U.S. clients and non-U.S. lawyers. Lawyrs.net looks like a social networking platform for lawyers with some group discussions [...]
I assumed that you could not use Google Analytics for your intranet. Apparently I was wrong. Sadalit Van Buren takes you through the steps on her A Matter of Degree blog: How to Use Google Analytics with Sharepoint (MOSS 2007). Google Analytics is not the most robust tools for measuring traffic. But these are tight [...]
I received a request to write a report on social networking for lawyers. It is a bigger project than I want to take on. (Since my change to compliance from knowledge management. Yes, I will be publishing a compliance blog. It should be online shortly.) If you are interested in writing a detailed report for [...]
I have had mixed things to say about Avvo in the past: Avvo’s Online Ratings For Lawyers Come To Boston and Avvo Revisited – I am a 23% Better Lawyer. Avvo put together a great list of the Top Legal Blogs. Rather than using the voodoo used by the ABA, Avvo used the blogs Alexa [...]