Best Efforts vs. Reasonable Efforts
by Ken Adams, author of A Manual of style for Contract Drafting, published this article in The Practical Lawyer: Understanding Best Efforts and Its Variants. I …
Category: KM Space blog posts
At one point I was heavily involved in knowledge management. I ran a blog called KM Space. I decided to import those post here for archiving.
Why Blog? – Blogging Offers a Lift to Your Career
As I was lying on the couch reading The Boston Sunday Globe I came across an article by Penelope Trunk in the jobs section: Blogging …
Swarm Behavior
National Geographic Magazine this month has a story on how the study of swarm intelligence and how it is providing insight on managing complex systems: …
Liquid Talk Launch Pad
Liquid Talk. There are few cracks in the day to get stuff done. We are increasingly out of the office. You can’t collaborate when you …
Knowledge Management for Inside Counsel
The latest issue of Inside Counsel magazine contains a primer on knowledge management Article(pdf). They interviewed the right people by including Jack Vinson, Dennis Kennedy, …
Wikis in Plain English
Common Craft has put up a new video describing how to use wikis:Wikis in Plain English It does a great job of showing how to …
Why Blog? My Reasons.
I do not blog for fame or fortune. (There is none.) I do not blog for you. (Although I do appreciate you taking the time …
Better Communication Through Blogs, Wikis and RSS
E-mail comes and goes. We need a place to collect and build communication. Email has become the principal means of business communication. My theory for …
Precedent – Document Search Type
A “precedent” search is a search for a model document. Generally, the key to finding a good precedent is knowing the context in which a …
Research – Document Search Type
A “research” search is when the user is looking for documents on a topic. The user may not know if any documents on the topic …
Recall – Document Search Type
A “recall” search is when the user knows the document exists and has some specific information about the document that the user can distinguish it …
Fetch – Document Search Type
A “fetch” search is when the user has a document ID (with a Document Management System) or a file name (with a file server system). …
Four Types of Document Searches
In reviewing user behavior, I have identified four different types of searches for documents: Fetch Recall Research Precedent Separate posts will follow with more information …
Taxonomies and Folksonomies
Matt Hodgson has three posts on taxonomies, folk taxonomies and Folksonomies. I have struggled with trying incorporate taxonomies into our work product retrieval and precedent …
Knowledge Management Jargon
The Applied Knowledge Group put together this list of terms used in the practice of knowledge management: http://www.akgroup.com/company/jargon.html.
Wikis for the Legal Profession
Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell present an good primer on wikis for lawyers: The Strongest Links — Wikis for the Legal Profession. The big advantage …