Last night I posted about the idea that your employees using social networking tools, and gathering important information about yor business, your industry, etc. was a no-brainer. Today, I had a conversation with someone that really brought that point to home for me. Not that we were having a conversation about social networking per se,…
According to this, yeah. And this part in particular seems like a serious no-brainer. One method Klososky suggests to managers is encouraging employees to build personalized “rivers of information” that push specialized, real-time information about their industry or expertise to them by way of social technology tools such as RSS readers, Twitter and Digg. A…
Ralph Losey is putting his money where his mouth is. After years of trying to encourage law schools to do a better job teaching e-discovery, he’s decided to take on that challenge himself, with the help of some friends. Earlier this week, he announced the opening of E-Discovery Law Training, an online course equivalent to…
As written by me, Jan 18, 2010: I’ve been thinking, for quite awhile now, that when the job market bounces back and people start to feel a bit more secure in looking around, there’s going to be a mass exodus, especially from the legal industry. Also, on April 26, 2010: It seems like everywhere I…
Saw this video over at Jim Canterucci’s blog originally. It certainly makes you wonder about the way we educate children, and how the education models hasn’t changed, despite the fact that the world has changed in most every other way. As I watched it though, I began to wonder how this applies to law schools….
A post at Lockergnome about IT burnout got me thinking today. The author listed some of the reasons we see a high rate of burnout in IT, and I couldn’t help but think of the seemingly large number of people I know who have left legal IT specifically, in recent months, citing burnout as a…
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