• Management

    Law Library Value

    by  • February 22, 2012 • Books, Case Law, Collection, Database, ebooks, Knowledge, Legal Research, Legislation, Management, Management, Organization, Publishers, Research • 0 Comments

    Imperial Roman coin by clarita at Morguefile.com

    There is no reliable way to provide an adequate measure of a law library based on outputs.  This creates a tension when we are planning what we need as far as resources and understanding what has been a good investment and what hasn’t.  Law firms have opportunities that other organizations don’t, in that they...

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    The Ethics of Social Media for Lawyers

    by  • January 24, 2012 • Canada, Featured, Large Firm, Metadata, Mid Size Firm, RSS, Small Law Firm, Solo, Technology, Writing • 0 Comments

    Great Blue Heron by clconroy at Morguefile.com

    Phil Brown, my fellow Law Society employee and practice management specialist, and I presented a three hour workshop on social media and the ethical issues lawyers might face in using it.  The workshop was part of the 18th Annual Advertising and Marketing Law conference put on by The Canadian Institute.  We focused on practical...

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    Presswork Theme Falls Behind

    by  • January 7, 2012 • Presentation, Wordpress • 0 Comments

    Burned tree from lightning at Morguefile.com

    If you’d visited my site recently, you’d see I’d been playing around with the Presswork theme.  Unfortunately, when WordPress upgraded to 3.3, Presswork became incompatible; if you haven’t upgraded from WordPress 3.2, stay there.  Update:  Presswork has released version 1.04 to WordPress and a release candidate to anyone brave enough to use it; I...

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    Conference Planning with Google Docs

    by  • November 19, 2011 • Canada, Featured, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Knowledge, Law Library, Management, Organization, Presentation • 0 Comments

    Using Google Docs drawing application to manage program selection for conference planning

    Planning is under way for the 2012 Canadian Association of Law Libraries annual meeting.  We’ll be meeting in Toronto in May and I’ve been working with some colleagues on the program planning.  Our planning has started to take on a decidedly Google flavor over time. We started with a Google Sites wiki as a...

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