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Lars Bauer

Collaborative Thinking: 2009: Planning Considerations For Enterprise 2.0 - 0 views

  • "SharePoint Next": Call, Raise Or Fold
  • Communities & Social Networks: Think "Adoption", Not "Deployment"
  • Social Platforms: Managing The Gap
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  • "Enterprise RSS": It's A Middleware Decision
  • Social Analytics: Redefining Business Intelligence
  • Enterprise 2.0: Long-term Issues
  • Enterprise 2.0: Vendors To Watch (alpha order)
  • Jive: Perhaps the most successful "mini suite" in the market right now and a good option for organizations that don't want to commit to SharePoint and have reservations about IBM.
  • Telligent: Telligent could be the "Jive of 2009" given its latest release (which rounds out the features), its integration with SharePoint, and alignment with a Microsoft environment overall.
  • Enterprise 2.0: Open Source Efforts To Watch
  • Mindtouch: A vendor I hope more organizations consider - sound underling architecture that perhaps is over-branded as a wiki solution but is more of a mash-up server (kinda) based on a hypertext and service-oriented platform.
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    Dec 24, 2008 -- "Rather than list off a "top ten" list of predictions for 2009, I thought I would briefly layout some topics and areas that business and IT decision-makers should pay attention to when formulating Enterprise 2.0 plans"
Lars Bauer

The Project Proposal Toolkit | Legal IT Info - 0 views

  • We all want our firm or our customer to benefit from investing in the best technology, but how can you be sure that your proposals will get swift approval? My free Project Proposal Toolkit will help you through the vital early stages of planning and launching your project. Download a detailed manual, examples and project proposal templates today, and you will save time, money and get better results.
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    "We all want our firm or our customer to benefit from investing in the best technology, but how can you be sure that your proposals will get swift approval? My free Project Proposal Toolkit will help you through the vital early stages of planning and launching your project. Download a detailed manual, examples and project proposal templates today, and you will save time, money and get better results."
Lars Bauer

Enterprise 2.0 CEOs Speak Out | SocialComputingMagazine.com - 0 views

  • I thought it was a good time to go straight to the source and speak with the visionary CEOs leading the E2.0 charge.
  • In this four-part CEO series, we'll look at one shortcoming the industry has faced so far and work to rectify it with Defining Collaboration in 2009.
  • From there, we're identifying the Top 5 Challenges facing Enterprise 2.0 in 2009 and looking at the ways these firms plan to survive the coming storm.
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  • we'll look at one of the new technologies that you could see a lot more of in, Where is Enterprise 2.0 Technology headed in 2009?
  • And finally, for the folks who are planning to move forward with E20 implementations in the coming year, heed the advice of those who have seen the successes and the failures, as they share their Top Enterprise 2.0 Tips for improving workforce collaboration in 2009.
  • Defining Collaboration in 2009
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    Jan 20, 2009
Lars Bauer

Planning Considerations For Enterprise 2.0 in 2009 | SocialComputingMagazine.com - 0 views

  • "SharePoint Next": Call, Raise Or Fold
  • Communities & Social Networks: Think "Adoption", Not "Deployment"
  • Social Platforms: Managing The Gap
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  • "Enterprise RSS": It's A Middleware Decision
  • Social Analytics: Redefining Business Intelligence
  • Enterprise 2.0: Long-term Issues
  • Enterprise 2.0: Vendors To Watch (alpha order)
  • Enterprise 2.0: Open Source Efforts To Watch
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    Jan 18, 2009
Lars Bauer

Caselines: KM and The Modern Law Firm: Formal Law Firm KM Strategy - 0 views

  • The next session at the Ark KM Conference saw Mark Young, Managing Partner, and John S. Gillies, Director of Practice Support, at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP address development of a KM strategy.
  • He indicated that he often hears partners claim they could get more work in the door if they had more time; KM offered them more time, and hence more opportunity for more business.
  • He also feels that KM provides an opportunity to demonstrate greater value to clients.
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  • John outlined some specifics of the firm’s KM Strategy. The three primary prongs of their plan were an effective Document Management System (DMS); a way to manage precedents; and good DMS search.
  • They chose Interwoven for their DMS and adopted a unified “folder structure” as a way of fostering collaboration between practice groups.
  • For their search, they used comments from focus groups and the strategic plan to develop a 100-feature set of requirements, with each of the requirements weighted ranking from 1-5. Despite the extensive quantitative work, the two competitors, Recommind and Interwoven Universal Search (IUS), came out with an identical ranking. They went with IUS because of its tighter integration with Interwoven. John mentioned that Recommind did a better job of expertise identification, but that this feature was less important to them as a one-office shop.
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    Oct. 30, 2008
Lars Bauer

Integrated library system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • An integrated library system, or ILS, is an enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed.
  • An ILS is usually comprised of a relational database, software to act on that database, and two graphical user interfaces (one for patrons, one for staff). Most ILSes separate software functions into discrete programs called modules, which are then integrated into a unified interface. Examples of modules include: acquisitions (ordering, receiving, and invoicing materials), cataloging (classifying and indexing materials), circulation (lending materials to patrons and receiving them back), serials (tracking magazine and newspaper holdings), and the OPAC (public interface for users). Each patron and item has a unique ID in the database that allows the ILS to track its activity.
  • In the United Kingdom, ILSes are sometimes referred to as "library management systems".
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  • Open-source Evergreen Koha PMB NewGenLib
  • Proprietary Dynix from SirsiDynix Horizon from SirsiDynix Symphony from SirsiDynix Talis (UK and Ireland) Unicorn from SirsiDynix Voyager from Ex Libris, formerly from Endeavor Millenium from Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Virtua from VTLS ILMU from Paradigm Systems and Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
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The Law Firm Intranet - 0 views

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    Creating law firm intranets with vision, strategy, planning, and other big thinking, blog by Nina Platt, owner and principal at Nina Platt Consulting, Inc.
Lars Bauer

Legal Technology - Adopting Wikis in Law Firms - 0 views

  • This article will explore ways in which Microsoft SharePoint wikis can provide the control and structure that legal professionals require, along with the benefits of open collaboration that wikis afford.
  • use SharePoint's built-in security to control who may create, edit and view wiki pages
  • Another built-in SharePoint feature is content approval. You can use this feature to have SharePoint notify an approver when new or edited content is submitted and require an approval prior to making the content generally available.
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  • Alerts are another tool in your content control arsenal. Any wiki user may request an alert at the wiki or page level.
  • One aspect of SharePoint wikis that is not readily apparent is that each wiki page is a specially formatted Web-part page. As such, given the appropriate permissions, you can add your own Web parts to create a hybrid wiki page. At my firm we've used this trick, in conjunction with a custom workflow, to automatically add Web parts to each new wiki page as it is created
  • The adoption and use of wikis within law firms follows an evolutionary path from indifference to skepticism, to partial, then full adoption. The rate at which a firm moves along this adoption curve will depend both on how quickly legal professionals embrace the belief that collaborative authorship can efficiently produce high-quality reference materials, as well as how effectively technical professionals implement the tools for control and organization of the authorship process that lawyers demand.
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    Mark Gerow, IT professional with the Fenwick & West law firm in San Francisco, Law.com, Feb 20, 2009
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What does Enterprise 2.0 mean for the IT department? (SocialComputingMagazine.com) - 0 views

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    Kate Carruthers, March 8, 2009
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The Connectbeam Social Computing Blog: Three Silos That Enterprise 2.0 Must Break - 0 views

  • why haven't companies instituted better ways to allow expertise to be emergent? Historically, the tools haven't been up to the job. The nature of most business applications is to focus your attention on executing a specific task. It's efficient, but the idea of making what workers know and do accessible to a wider audience was really never part of the plan.
  • Traditional work has three silos which limit companies' ability to realize the full value of emergent expertise: Information silos Knowledge silos Connection silos Addressing these three silos is a key responsbility of Enterprise 2.0 if it is to drive meaningful improvements inside companies.
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    Jan 16, 2009
Lars Bauer

NewsGator - Press Archive: Ten definitive strategies for Enterprise Social Networking s... - 0 views

  • Are you thinking of deploying something like Facebook as a business tool in your enterprise? Many companies are: Enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies will surge over the next five years to reach $4.6 billion globally, predicts Forrester Research. The following strategies will help ensure your initiative flourishes, says social computing company NewsGator in a white paper authored earlier this year.
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    Sept 24, 2008
Lars Bauer

headshift > Projects > "Magic Circle" law firm injects life into intranet using a botto... - 0 views

  • Using a wiki platform, the international law firm made it easy to create and maintain "subwebs".
  • Using a wiki platform, the international law firm made it easy to create and maintain "subwebs". Subwebs are microsites on the firm's intranet, devoted to a specific subject such as a specialty within a practice or key client information. Headshift helped the firm explore how to broaden the participation in providing subweb content and how to move away from a process that required pages to be prepared individually in FrontPage, a web page design tool.
  • Headshift recommended an enterprise wiki platform, customised to feature dynamic navigation and designed to match the intranet look-and-feel.
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  • The wiki is the first step of the firm's adoption of social tools behind the firewall. There are plans to roll out a firm-wide RSS infrastructure and an enterprise blogging platform, supported by a business case to simplify the publishing process for internal and external current awareness content
Lars Bauer

R.I.P. Enterprise RSS - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views

  • For me the absence of Enterprise RSS (and perhaps along with other key infrastructure, like Enterprise Search and social tagging tools) in environments where we find wikis, blogs and social networking tools is a sign of tactical or immature implementations of enterprise social computing. We are just at the beginning of this journey.
  • n this respect, I can actually see many opportunities for integrating Enterprise RSS features into Enterprise Search solutions or into existing portal platforms (actually, Confluence is a great example of a feed friendly wiki platform - both to create and consume).
  • that people are talking too much about technology and products and not enough about real-world use cases. Simply stating how great RSS is and that it could be very useful won't get you much buy-in, not from management nor most importantly end-users.
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  • In two of our projects with large law firms we included an RSS feedreader in the social software mix (among wiki, blogs, social bookmarking). We introduced it primarily to Knowledge Management Lawyers (KML) that needed to gather a lot of content from various sources. They also use it to subscribe to updates from the wiki and blogs. They appreciate the fact that it is much easier to plow through a stream of updates rather than going from email to email and deleting every one of them.
  • Have a look at two case studies: Dewey & LeBoeuf and Allen & Overy
  • In another project with a large law firm we took a very close look at the production (and consumption) of current awareness material. Current awareness included for example information on current developments within legal practices, latest court decisions etc. The firm made extensive use of newsletters to disseminate that kind of information. There was a multitude of newsletters available, some of them covering similar grounds. Maintaining email lists was very time-consuming and frustrating. Consumers did not know which newsletter were available. Also, newsletters were not personalised nor very timely, as they had a specific publishing date. We therefore recommended using RSS as delivery format, which would make the process of producing and consuming content more efficient and in the end more cost-effective as shown in a business case
  • Once CRM, DMS, Intranet and other proprietary system vendors thoroughly implement RSS functionality, it will get a big push.
  • I think a tipping point might come if ERP apps providers (SAP, Oracle, etc.) started publishing RSS feeds of ERP data!
  • In our company, we had a survey in April (2008), asking managers if they needed a RSS Reader. Some figures: 72 managers responded, 68 managers subscribed to more than one (company) blog. 9 managers already used iGoogle or a RSS Reader, 13 managers replied they did not need a RSS Reader, 50 managers replied they need a RSS Reader. As a result we planned a project to select and deliver a company RSS Reader. The project will be executed mid 2009.
  • It's with a heavy heart and a sense of bewilderment that we conclude that the market for enterprise-specific RSS readers appears to be dead. Two years ago there were three major players offering software that delivered information to the computers of business users via RSS. Today it looks to us like the demand simply never arose and that market is over.
  • It's insane - a solid RSS strategy can be a huge competitive advantage in any field. We have no idea why so relatively few people see that.
  • Neglecting RSS at work seems to us like pure insanity.
  • If dashboards take off, then maybe RSS will gain traction as the wiring? This probably requires: secure feed displaying widgets, good filters.
  • Enterprises are scared to disrupt their own structure and command lines by introducing uncontrolled information flows both internally (which can route around management) and externally (which can route around the official PR outputs and sales inputs of the company)
  • Look at the headline you used.. RIP Enterprise RSS. Now read that from the point of view of a manager in an enterprise. WTF does "Enterprise RSS" mean? What are the business reasons to care? What does it do for them? People don't care adopt RSS, just as people don't adopt XHTML, Javascript etc. They adopt products that use technology to do something that they value. No one cares about the technologies used to display this page... they want to read the page.
  • Enterprise RSS doesn't mean much. When RSS companies start talking about secure communications channels that intelligently and automatically route relevant information to the people who need/want it, light bulbs start lighting up.
  • I think Microsoft SharePoint could be the killer app for RSS in the enterprise. SharePoint has RSS built in and uses it to syndicate changes that happen within the SharePoint ecosphere and notify enterprise workers that something significant has happened. Of course, SharePoint RSS could work with third-party RSS readers, but it's really designed to be used with Microsoft's Office Suite, where enterprise workers can interface with SharePoint, through RSS and other means, directly
  • One thing missing from this (great) post is the cost of these tools. Looking at Newsgator & Attensa, these are expensive enterprise tools and trying to sell them to IT managers that don't fully understand RSS is next to impossible. Imagine saying to a CIO, who barely understands what RSS is, that you need $175,000 for Enterprise RSS software... it isn't an easy sell.
  • In this part of the world (SE Asia) we're seeing more & more top management wanting tools for themselves and their teams to connect to "Facebook and these social network things". Feeds and aggregation/search tools are the perfect wiring for this. But the front end? There's a lot of choice and individual needs vary. A decently setup igoogle/netvibes page can work wonders..so why pay?
  • Also, reading RSS is likely viewed as not work related, and so its frowned upon within the enterprise (remember, those enterprise folks have "real" work to do, they don't get paid to read BoingBoing all day long).
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    Jan. 12, 2009
Lars Bauer

AIIM Guide to ECM Purchasing - 0 views

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    A complete directory of industry resources to make enterprise content management (ECM) work for you: What it is - How to buy it - When to outsource. Download each chapter to read at your leisure
Lars Bauer

ChiefTech: How many people does it take to implement an information management project? - 0 views

  • example of an Australian property development company with 750 staff that implemented a document management system with the following project team: Project Manager - 60% full time; Information Manager - full time; Change Manager - 50% full time for 6 months; Classification Specialist - 2 months full time; and DMS Administrator - full time for 6 months.
Lars Bauer

Andrew McAfee: The Enterprise 2.0 Recovery Plan - 0 views

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    Dec 1, 2008
Lars Bauer

Law Librarians: 'No More Sacred Cows' | by Alan Cohen, The American Lawyer, Sep 3, 2009... - 0 views

  • Last year only 9 percent of respondents said their budgets had shrunk. This year it was a whopping 46 percent. Staff reductions have also become the norm, with 57 percent of firms paring their library payroll, up from 18 percent in 2008.
  • are being asked to become detectives of a sort, tracking, graphing, and reporting on their firm's use of every research tool.
  • Perhaps it's no wonder, then, that we noticed an uptick in librarian dissatisfaction.
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  • Last year just 7 percent of librarians mostly or totally disagreed with recent decisions made regarding the library. This year the figure was 16 percent. Similarly, in 2008, a mere 3 percent were dissatisfied with their job. In 2009, 8 percent were unhappy.
  • One might think that the library's continued work in assisting marketing efforts -- 62 percent of respondents said the library is their firm's main source for marketing research -- might upset librarians trained to research statutes and legal issues. But the problem isn't the work, say several library chiefs; it's the recognition that comes with it. Or more often, doesn't come.
  • Still, librarians have become tougher, more successful negotiators when it comes to renewing contracts with publishers -- thanks in no small part to the metrics they get from new tracking software.
  • now there's commercially available tracking software -- like Onelog, from the U.K.-based company Info Technology Supply Ltd., and Advanced Productivity Software LookUp Precision.
  • A third package mentioned by some library chiefs was Research Monitor from Priory Solutions.
  • costs for electronic re­sources other than LexisNexis and Westlaw rose in 2008, with the average firm spending just over $1 million, compared to some $929,000 in 2007. (Lexis and Westlaw spending decreased slightly.)
  • it's no shock that more firms are starting to ask a question that, up until now, seemed almost blasphemous: Lexis or Westlaw? Last year just 12 percent of firms said they intended to move to a single-vendor strategy. This year, 31 percent did.
  • Multimillion-dollar knowledge management systems were something that more than a few firms invested in. Newer platforms, such as Microsoft SharePoint -- which five library chiefs praised as a tool that made their work easier and three more planned to launch in 2010 -- just do it better. "SharePoint lets us splice and dice pieces of information, creating all these little repositories without going through IT or ten years of programming," says one library head. "You want to create a database full of Madoff stuff? There, it's done. And anyone can access it through a Web browser."
  • Five other firms gave a shout-out to Ozmosys' eponymous service, which helps them provide personalized news delivery to users.
  • Debevoise started using Ozmosys last September. Since then, some 500 of the firm's 750 attorneys have signed up for the service.
  • The Full Survey: The Librarian's Expanding Role Electronic Resources Staffing Finances
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