Legal Research

Knowledge Management Practice in Organizations: My Chapters Now Available

Posted on October 14, 2014
Earlier this  year I was very pleased to contribute to the book Knowledge Management Practice in Organizations: The View from the Inside, edited by Ulla de Stricker and published by IGI Global.The official description from the website:Knowledge management can be a powerful tool if successfully implemented into an organizational structure...

Email Policies - Some Resources

Posted on November 14, 2013
I think a lot about governance in projects I work on: who is going to do what, who is going to oversee it, and how things will be maintained. A big piece of the picture are policies, guidelines and procedures. Without this type of documentation, employees in an organization do not have guidance on how things should function...

Announcing Social Media Engagement Certificate at University of Toronto - On-line Courses Start Sept. 9th

Posted on August 23, 2013
I have more project news to share:I am excited to announce a new Social Media Engagement certificate through the iSchool Institute at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto that Daniel Lee and I will be teaching starting in September!  Please check out the details below and on the iSchool Institute website...

Bringing Knowledge Management Benefits to Smaller Law Firms and Law Departments

Posted on August 18, 2013
Knowledge Management has been around in larger law firms now for more than 15 years.  Long enough to have evolved, matured, and brought the bigger firms numerous benefits. As these efforts have  touched so many departments inside the individual firms, the idea is also now slowly catching on in other firms and law departments...

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On Finding Home

Posted on July 20, 2013
Many people know I recently walked the traditional pilgrimage Camino de Santiago de Compostela (also known as The Way of Saint James) with my colleague and friend Joan. We walked the popular Camino Frances route from St. Jean Pied de Port in France, through the Pyrenees mountains and across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela...

David Weinberger on the Nature of Knowledge: A Viewing Guide

Posted on January 12, 2013
The following keynote by David Weinberger was presented at KMWorld 2012 conference held November 2012 in Washington, DC.  Thanks to the folks at Information Today for sharing this video (and the other videos) so that we all have the opportunity to benefit from them...

A New Year, a New Attitude

Posted on January 12, 2013
Hi folks! I hope 2013 is treating you well so far. It has already been quite interesting for me. I should mention that 2012 was a bit slow on the consulting side, so I jumped head first into teaching. I became parttime professor at Durham College in their new Legal Research and Information Management program...

Inspiration on a Sunday

Posted on October 14, 2012
Getting back to blogging has been on my mind a lot lately. It is finally taking this melancholy weekend to get me back to actually committing words to the blog again. I am sitting in one of my favourite Irish pubs over a cup of coffee and a Sunday cooked breakfast...

Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner on Privacy and Electronic Health Records

Posted on March 05, 2012
On Friday, March 2, 2012, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, gave a well-attended talk for healthcare professionals and organizations at the Toronto Board of Trade entitled "Embedding Privacy in the Design of Electronic Health Records - Yes, You Can"...

Back to Reality: What I've Been Up To

Posted on March 04, 2012
Wow--I can't believe it has been almost three months since I last blogged here! I guess that is a sign I have been busy. Still, I feel I should be sharing more. Here are a few highlights on what I have been up to lately:Recent talksIn January I gave a talk about social media to lawyers at a conference put on by The Commons Institute...

Info Tech Start-ups Featured at SLA Toronto Event

Posted on December 19, 2011
A few weeks ago I attended SLA Toronto's event Start It Up!  The event was hosted by Helen Kula at the MaRS Discovery District where she works as a Senior Information Specialist in the Market Intelligence group. Four local vendors presented their technologies, all in the area of information aggregation...

Why Occupy Toronto?

Posted on November 15, 2011
I have been trying to get my head around the "Occupy" movement, particularly in Canada. It seems to me there are a lot of points of contention and pain in other countries, but wonder what we have to complain about in Canada that would move people to these extreme measures...

My Top 5 Tips for Businesses Using Social Media

Posted on November 13, 2011
On Friday Phil Ridout put out the following question to some people in his Google Plus network:Social media in business setting - top tips please!I've been asked to make a presentation in 10 days time about using Social Media in a Business Setting...

Are You Using Plaxo? How to Delete Your Account

Posted on November 10, 2011
A discussion on one of my listservs about Plaxo got me thinking about why I had signed up for it, and why I still had an account. It was many years ago that I signed on (probably when it was first launched). I signed on to see what it is about, but rarely went back...

Blogger Monday: When should you back up your blog content?

Posted on August 08, 2011
Last week I wrote my "Blogger Monday" blog post Sunday night and used the option to schedule it to post on the Monday. I went to sleep, content in having a new blog post under my belt. I have been on Blogger, Google's blogging platform, before it was even owned by Google...

Innovative Ideas: Virtual Stores and the Possibility for Public Libraries

Posted on August 02, 2011
This video depicts how Tesco have adapted their services for the South Korea market. One of their goals was to increase market share while not increasing number of stores. The solution? "Virtual" stores in subway stations. Have a look, this is pretty cool--Shoppers add items to their shopping carts by scanning QR codes with their smart phones, and then the items purchased are delivered to their homes...

Blogger Monday: Kickstarting an Old Blog

Posted on August 01, 2011
I know I keep harping on about the things I learned at AALL 2011, but there is indeed more. Last week I attended the blogger meetup hosted by the CS-SIS (Computing Services Special Interest Section). We were fortunate to have Meredith Lindemon, owner and operator of Meredith Group, join us...

What Are You Saying? - Communication and the Need to Speak the Same Language in the Workplace

Posted on July 29, 2011
Having just come back from the AALL 2011 conference, I can't help but think about all the sessions that started off by defining the terminology and concepts being discussed. Kathie Sullivan and I did the same in our session on collaboration tools, explaining what sense of collaboration we were talking about...

AALL 2011 - E-books and the Future of Legal Publishing

Posted on July 26, 2011
These are notes are from a panel discussion session with Scott Meiser of LexisNexis, Dan Bennett of Thomson Reuters Professional, and Steven W. Sutton of YBP Library Services, A Baker & Taylor Company . The session was moderated by June Hsiao Liebert, Coordinator, John Marshall Law School...

AALL 2011 - Coding Potpourri: A Survey of Programming Languages and Tools Used in Library Applications Today

Posted on July 26, 2011
These are notes are from a panel discussion session with Nicole Engard, Director of Open Source Education ByWater Solutions, Ted Lawless, Library Applications Developer at Brown University, Jason Eiseman, Librarian for Emerging Technologies at  Yale Law School Library, and Tom Boone, Reference Librarian, Loyola Law School...

AALL 2011 - To Recover or Not to Recover: Trends, Solutions, and Alternatives for Taming Online Research Costs

Posted on July 25, 2011
These are notes are from a panel discussion session with Joan Axelroth, Axelroth & Associates, Anthony A. Licata, CFO of Dechert LLP and Nuchine Nobari, Library Director of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, LLP. The session was moderated by Sarah Mauldin, Head Librarian of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP...

AALL 2011 - Barbara Tillett and John Mark Ockerbloom on Authority Control Vocabularies and the Semantic Web

Posted on July 25, 2011
I am at the American Association of Law Libraries 2011 Conference in Philadelphia. These are notes are from talk by Dr. Barbara B. Tillett of the Library of Congress and John Mark Ockerboom of the University of Pennsylvania.  Note: these are my selected notes from this session; any inaccuracies or omissions are my own...

PLL Summit - Larry Guthrie and Doug Malerba on Developing Collaborative Communities

Posted on July 23, 2011
One of three sessions in the PLL Summit Administration concurrent sessions track. These are notes are from talk by Larry Guthrie of Covington & Burling LLP and Doug Malerba of McKenna Long and Aldridge on developing collaborative communities...

PLL Summit - Joelle Coachman - Resistance is Futile: Integrating New Technology into Your Library

Posted on July 23, 2011
One of three sessions in the PLL Summit Technology/Tech Services concurrent sessions track. These are notes are from talk by Joelle Coachman, E-Resources Librarian at McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP and owner of Info-2Go Legal Research Services, on integrating new technology into your library...

PLL Summit - David Curle on transformations in the legal publishing industry

Posted on July 23, 2011
One of three sessions in the PLL Summit Technology/Tech Services concurrent sessions track. These are notes are from talk by David Curle of Outsell on transformations in the legal publishing industry.  Note: these are my notes from this session; any inaccuracies or omissions are my own...

Knowledge Ontario - Funding Needed from the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Culture

Posted on March 07, 2011
I'm taking a break from my vacation (which I am largely spending off-line) to bring something I feel is urgent to your attention. This is particularly directed to citizens of Ontario:Are you familiar with Knowledge Ontario? They do work behind the scenes to support the information needs of Ontarians by providing a wide range of services to Ontario's public, academic and school libraries, schools, and other learning and cultural organizations...

PodCamp Toronto - February 26 & 27, 2011

Posted on February 10, 2011
I have been involved in PodCamp Toronto since it started in 2007, and have been part of the organizing team since 2008. Check out the video below, and the description below it by Daniele Rossi. I hope you will consider joining us over the weekend! More details at http://podcamptoronto...

Talking Twitter

Posted on February 03, 2011
I've been on Twitter pretty much forever. Well, since March 2007 anyway. Four years! So forgive me if I forget to share lessons about Twitter as I go along. To me it has just become a mainstream form of communication, to connect with people in my life and get to know others I haven't met yet...

Which Book Could Save Your Life?

Posted on January 07, 2011
Michel-Adrien Sheppard mentioned this video today on Slaw, but I saw it a few days ago on Facebook and had earmarked it to share. Regardless, if you haven't seen it yet, enjoy!

Library Girl (original song)

Posted on December 21, 2010
A little music video for you by Reina del Cid. Susan found this and posted it to Facebook, but I enjoyed it too much not to share here as well. This reminds me of my days as a page when I was in high school and as a circulation assistant when I was in university...

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