Knowledgeline

DECEMBER 23, 2006

What do we really know about those knowledge practices that involve a strong cyclic component? Can we alter the rate, depth, relevance and utility of knowledge generation by enhancing the cycle visibility, being mindful of our place in the cycle, changing frequency and other properties? Idea generations and dialog turns. Would we build shared understanding faster if we supplied regular summaries or if we had strict time-limited events and interactions such as a turn taking rule in conversation a

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

Today I tried to export my RSS feeds from RSS Bandit into an OPML file and import it into Internet Explorer 7. To my surprise, the import feature is located under the “Add to Favorites” button in IE7. Not the best organization of menus, I’d say. My next surprise was that Import Wizard did not import anything and did not prompt any reasonable error message.

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DECEMBER 21, 2006

The distinction between an ontology and taxonomy is subtle and often difficult to grasp. When I first started in KM, taxonomies were hot, hot,but there has been a downplay with time - perhaps in line with loweremphasis on explicit knowledge repositories? Now I find very few clients who are willing to 'invest' in a. corporate taxonomy and even fewer who have been down that road and believe they. have gained value - why?

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Knowledgeline

NOVEMBER 14, 2006

Knowledgeline Tuesday, November 14, 2006 SharePoint 2007 Update - Enterprise Search Rocks!! So, we are now less than a month away from going live on our SharePoint 2007 portal. Practice, Office, Admin Department, Client, Matter and personalized home pages are almost finished. We are using audiences and content targeting to deliver webparts and data on everyones home page.

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Knowledgeline

OCTOBER 3, 2006

Knowledgeline Tuesday, October 03, 2006 Lexis Nexis Announces atVantage, while Thomson Acquires LiveNote I was recently invited to an Advisory Council meeting by Lexis to discuss their future plans with InterAction and how to better leverage content within it. This meeting was on the heels of their announcement regarding atVantage , a new iteration of Market Intelligence.

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Knowledgeline

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Knowledgeline Tuesday, December 19, 2006 Enterprise Search at Mofo - AnswerBase Thanks to the generous contribution of Oz Benamram , weve been given some insight into their amazing tool at Mofo, AnswerBase. Built on the Recommind search engine, AnswerBase is the most comprehensive search tool built by a law firm (at least as far as Im concerned). It aims to make it easy to find and drill down on anything relevant to a users search term.

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Knowledgeline

JUNE 15, 2006

Knowledgeline Thursday, June 15, 2006 SharePoint 2007 is full of surprises – lets talk workflow! I will be periodically blogging about our firms venture with SharePoint 2007 (SP07). Our initial interest was to use this in replacement of our current intranet/portal, LawPort, but as weve begun to explore its capabilities further, there are some truly hidden gems in SP07.

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Knowledgeline

MAY 18, 2006

Knowledgeline Thursday, May 18, 2006 Microsoft finally enters the KM space with Knowledge Network Bill Gates announced yesterday at Microsofts annual CEO Summit, their first product targeted towards knowledge management, more precisely centered on expertise location called Knowledge Network, which will be a part of SharePoint 2007. Theres a brief blurb about it here on a ZDnet page from the UK.

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Knowledgeline

APRIL 19, 2006

Knowledgeline Wednesday, April 19, 2006 Getting lawyers hooked on EDD processing, the paper v. plastic dilemma While much has been made over the last 12 months about e-discovery, Zubalake and Morgan Stanley, the reality is that many lawyers and their clients are still a bit naive and shocked about the costs involved in properly handling e-discovery.

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Knowledgeline

FEBRUARY 21, 2006

Knowledgeline Tuesday, February 21, 2006 Knowledge Management v. Practice Enhancement In recent years, Ive struggled to try and define knowledge management. I actually joke about it when partners at my firm ask me "What does a Chief Knowledge Officer do anyway?" and my response is often "When I find out, Ill let you know" - which is usually followed by a chuckle.

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Knowledgeline

JANUARY 12, 2006

Knowledgeline Thursday, January 12, 2006 A nice compliment to CRM - Social Networking For those of you lamenting over the level of effort required to keep your CRM systems up-to-date or the lack of use by lawyers, these new tools may be the answer. Social networking has been around for a while. Personal products like Plaxo, Spoke and LinkedIn have millions of users and offer several nifty features.

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Knowledgeline

DECEMBER 30, 2006

The decision to commute or factor is simple or complex depending on how deep you dig and where you stand!! Through my partner Patrick Hinderd , I've been involved in the S2 (structured settlement) industry for the past 6 years. This is a complex legal area, ripe for the application of KM practices. The recent, 12/25/06 release of a paper by Rob Wood calls into question the legality and economics of Insurance Companies that seek to 'factor' their issued structured settlement agreements through co

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DECEMBER 14, 2006

Knowledgeline Thursday, December 14, 2006 SharePoint 2007 Enterprise Search: Screenshots Were very close to launching our new portal, but to give our users a sense of what it will look like and to test performance, we launched a separate search site on Tuesday. This site doesnt have any of the core portal navigation, its a simple search page for searching our collection of documents in WorkSite (using xmlaws stuff for indexing WorkSite ).

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Knowledgeline

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Knowledgeline Wednesday, October 11, 2006 Live from the Chicago Ark Group KM Conference Among other sessions, I will quickly blog about a panel currently going on, being moderated by Ron Friedmann with partners from Goldberg Kohn, Kelley Drye and Burns & Levinson. While the last two days have been focused on presentations by KM folks, this an interesting panel bringing to light the opinions of lawyers about KM topics and if its really as relevent as WE think it is.

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Knowledgeline

AUGUST 14, 2006

Knowledgeline Monday, August 14, 2006 Applied Discovery Fires Back at Law.com EDD Article Last Friday, I received an e-mail from Miranda Glass at Applied Discovery, attempting to present their side of the story published in the August 10, 2006 online issue of Law.com titled, " Software Glitch May Have Erased E-Mail Text in Enron Suits.", which was also quickly found and distributed by Monica Bay.

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Knowledgeline

AUGUST 11, 2006

Knowledgeline Friday, August 11, 2006 4th Socha Gelbman EDD Report Published Law Technology News recently published a brief synopsis of the annually anticipated EDD survey findings from George Socha & Thomas Gelbman. Many of the industrys household names were consistently ranked in the top 5 of various categories, along with some new players. I found it interesting that the market will continue to enjoy double digit growth, but they do forecast a slight decline in growth in the coming years.

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Knowledgeline

JULY 17, 2006

Knowledgeline Monday, July 17, 2006 More merger talk as Hummingbird mulls Open-Text bid. I read this article today on Law.com and was a bit surprised that the Symphony bid didnt go through already. For a change of pace, at least its not West or Lexis trying to acquire Hummingbird :) posted by Tom Baldwin - Chief Knowledge Officer at 4:33 PM 0 Comments: Post a Comment << Home Subscribe About Me Name: Tom Baldwin Location: Los Angeles, California, United States View my complete profile Previ

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Knowledgeline

JULY 5, 2006

Knowledgeline Wednesday, July 05, 2006 LexisNexis acquires Dataflight including its flagship solution, Concordance I just received word from our Lexis rep today that they are acquiring Dataflight, the makers of Concordance. This is the latest, in a string, of acquisitions by Lexis to provide total practice management solutions to the legal community.

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Knowledgeline

APRIL 24, 2006

Knowledgeline Monday, April 24, 2006 ILTA KM Session - KM 101: The Three Stages of Knowledge This is the first session spawned from the new KM Peer Group for ILTA. You do not have to be a member to attend this session. Join us for an overview of Knowledge Management focusing on the three stages in the KM Systems Maturity Model. This will be a discussion on what a firm just beginning a knowledge management program should focus on to develop a successful program and things to consider in developin

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Knowledgeline

JANUARY 25, 2006

Knowledgeline Wednesday, January 25, 2006 The Best KM Software Yet? Yahoo Answers the Question Okay, so if youve noticed, most of my posts dont talk about traditional KM systems (if there is such a thing), but I think Ive found something very interesting that Yahoo has in beta now, [link]. With a Yahoo account, you can start using the system right away.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 27, 2006

We already told you how to create tasks in Wrike by sending e-mails. Now let’s have a look how to keep track of them and get your stuff done. You can use Wrike as your personal information manager or assistant and task management software at the same time. Simply put a deadline of a task in the subject field in square brackets: [yyyy-mm-dd]. This is the way your task looks on the web (the due date and your created task name are outlined on the screenshot): You can then manage the task in y

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