Category: Knowledge Management

The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) has just released a new white paper on Knowledge Management.  The KM white paper has several articles of interest. Chris Boyd, Director of Professional Development & KM at Wilson Sonsini, and I wrote one of the articles, Powering a...

Perhaps the first and most popular legal KM blog is excited utterances by Joy London. Joy recently announced an expanded offering that will be of interest to many legal professionals.  In a recent post, Joy explains that she is joining forces with Law Librarian News....

Is knowledge management on the rise or fall? Not just skeptics ask; so do legal technology consultants and KM professionals. Some takes on answers….   It’s down. So I thought when I looked at the down-sloping line of the Google trends graph for “knowledge management,”....

The Ark Group is hosting a knowledge management conference in Toronto on June 13-14.  As a speaker and co-chair at prior Ark conferences, I can say that Ark puts on outstanding conferences. This one will explore the intersection of “information management” with KM. I agree...

The first International Legal Technology Association knowledge management webinar is this Thursday, April 27th.  The recently formed ILTA KM peer group is hosting KM 101: The Three Stages of Knowledge on April 27th at 2:00 PM Eastern / 1:00 PM Central / 12:00 PM Mountain...

I recently blogged (here) about a good knowledge management article in the The National, a publication of the Canadian Bar Association. In Knowledge Uprising (PDF), journalist-author Patti Ryan interviewed several KM practitioners. The full-text of her interview with me is now available.  Questions she asks...

I recently created a new “Roundup” blog category, in which I list (with links) articles, blog posts, and vendors sites that I find. This has given me an idea for a new blog feature, offered here for comment.  As a personal knowledge management tool, blogs...

It’s an old adage that knowledge management is 80% process and culture. But if people don’t play, process won’t work.   In US law firms, the success of manual KM is mixed at best. I’ve suggested previously that automated approaches may be preferable (e.g., 2006...