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Lexis Web Search
LexisNexis has put out Lexis Web Search in beta release: http://www.lexisweb.com. The Lexis Web product includes important, legal-oriented Web content selected and validated by the LexisNexis editorial staff. You can trust that all content has met LexisNexis criteria for being authoritative and accurate. I see that my Real Estate Space blog is included in the [...]
Knowledge Management and the Paperless Practice Toolkit
I presented on knowledge management as part of the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education program: The Paperless Practice Toolkit: Taming the Technology Tiger The panel was me and the two former attorneys at Goodwin Procter: James J. Berriman, Esq., of Evidox Corporation and Mark R. Mansoor, Esq., ClosingBinders.com. I focused on search tools, wikis and cloud [...]
One Box for an Enterprise Search
One of the most common requests I get for a knowledge management project is to give them a search like “The Google.” They want one simple box that give them their answer. As anyone who has looked at enterprise search has seen, people are often asking very different questions and expecting very different answers. For [...]
Search and Law Firm Knowledge Management 2.0
Findability is a keystone of knowledge management and is a keystone of law firm knowledge management 2.0. The goal is get information out of inaccessible locations and into accessible locations and putting it into context. If the information is in an accessible then it should be search-able. Is the reverse true? If I search for [...]
Google and Knowledge Sharing
Google is looking to move from the web search into the knowledge sharing area. According to the Official Google Blog they are inviting “people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it”: Encouraging people to contribute knowledge. Google has decreed that a unit of knowledge should be called a “knol.” Google [...]
Interwoven on Enterprise Search Done Right
Interwoven presented a webinar on enterprise search focusing on their Interwoven Universal Search product using the Vivisimo Velocity search engine. Interwoven wants to be the exclusive provider of enterprise search to the professional services area. Gerald Reid CIO of Milbank Tweed Hadley and McCLoy LLP was the presenter. Milbank has over 600 lawyers and over [...]
Improvements to the Interwoven Document Management System
Some representatives of Interwoven gave my group a look at the new searching tools that are coming out in their 8.3 release in December. These upcoming changes look like they will transform their document management system into a powerful knowledge management tool. We use Interwoven Worksite as our document management system, with the Desksite client [...]
The Four Types of Search and Vivisimo’s Social Search
After looking at my post on the Vivisimo Social Search, I thought back to how it relates to each of the four types of search. For those of you who missed my post from a few months ago on types of search, my studies show there to be four types of search: fetch, recall, precedent [...]
Using Social Search to Drive Innovation through Collaboration
I sat in on this webinar sponsored by KM World. I was knocked over by the demonstration of Vivisimo’s new Velocity 6.0 search tool. Lynda Moulton from the Gilbane Group started off the presentation. Clustering and federating searches is a great tool from an enterprise search tool. It comes from the machine trying to put [...]
Knowledge Management and Serendipity
One thing I noticed in our search for an enterprise search tool is the serendipity factor. People were finding interesting and informative things that they did not expect to find. Our sample database of documents and intranet sites for testing enterprise search had been targeted at the guinea pigs in the proof of concept. We [...]
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