Category: Knowledge Management

Joy London posted in Excited Utterances that Paul Hastings is hosting a vendor-sponsored luncheon roundtable (sponsors are Practice Technologies and Recommind). This should be an interesting session and nice follow-on to an article that Peter Ozolin, CKO of Paul Hastings recently wrote.  In the September...

My client ii3 will host a Webinar on October 14th on “A Fresh Outlook – MS Outlook as a Knowledge Hub.” Attendance is free but registration is required. Panelists include Teresa Grote, CIO of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP and Ted Graham, Worldwide Director of Knowledge...

Last June, my client ii3, inc. hosted a Webinar on Information and Knowledge Portals. Panelists included Jamie Booth, CIO of Hunton & Williams and Margaret Grottenthaler, a partner at Stikeman Elliott who spearheads KM at the firm. An interesting written Q&A follow-up is available.  In...

On September 15th, both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon is taking at aim at Google with a new search tool called A9, which has some interesting KM features and bears watching.  According to the articles, A9 is a “search...

Last week at I attended LawNet, one of the leading legal technology conferences. I had a an “aha” moment about knowledge management and return on investment.  A recurring KM question is return on investment (ROI). I have always been a fan of demonstrating the benefit...

Taxonomies are an integral element of many large law firms’ knowledge management programs. But building, maintaining, and using a taxonomy can be hard.  In my recent post on Developments in Full Text Searching, I cited Sharon Flank, a computational linguist, of DataStrategy. Sharon has just...

Most of us working on knowledge management say that KM is 80% culture and process and only 20% technology. That is true, but sometimes the technology can be a challenge. I was looking through some of my files and came across a grid I developed...

Jeff Beard, aka LawTech Guru, has an interesting post today about KM. In KM Thought of the Day he argues that KM should shift its focus to individual effort in place of institutional effort. I disagree.  I agree with Jeff that doing institutional KM is...