The Beginner's Guide to Social Media

For those who are interested learning the ropes of social media, Marc Georges of Mashable Social Media has provided a beginner's guide on the following social networking websites:

• Tumblr
• LinkedIn
• Reddit
• Facebook
• Twitter

If you are familiar with these services, check out tips and tricks to advance your skills.

Starting a Knowledge Management Program at Your Firm

There will be free KM webinar on starting a KM Program in a law firm today at 11 AM (CST). 3 experienced knowledge management leaders will discuss how to start or revitalize a program. Also, they will explain reasons to begin a KM program and what are the first steps to begin the process. The guest speakers are:

John Gillies is the Director of Practice Support at Cassels Brock & Blackwell in Toronto. He collaborates with all firm members to enhance the culture of knowledge-sharing through building appropriate organizational and technical structures

Rachelle Rennagel is the Director of Legal Services at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler. She oversees the firm’s practice support, paralegal, library and managing clerk’s offices, and is responsible for the firm’s knowledge management initiatives.

Jeff Rovner is the Managing Director for Information at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he directs all of the firm’s technology, information and knowledge management functions.

Patrick DiDomenico is the Director of Knowledge Management at Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. in New York. He leads the firm’s efforts to help lawyers work more efficiently and effectively to create value for its clients.

Register online here.

NOTE:  There will also be a question and answer period. You can ask questions or make comments before and during the webinar using Twitter — just use the #StartingKM and/or #ILTAKM hashtag. Feel free to tweet our panelists directly: John Gillies (@JohnGillies), Jeffrey Rovner (@JeffRovner), Rachelle Rennagel (@Irshal). You may also tweet our moderator, Patrick DiDomenico (@LawyerKM).

Twitter Content Incorporated into Factiva

Social media micro-blogger Twitter will have streams available on Factiva.  This will provide customers relevant and timely news in 31 industries including energy, financial, and technology by the most influential tweeters from the globe. The content is available on business search engine tool Factiva Snapshot that will help business to gather intelligence, identify trends, opportunities and risks.

Twitter Acronyms You Need To Know

Nicholas Carson of Business Insider provided a list of Twitter Abbreviations, Acronyms and Hashtags. I find it helpful for those who are new to the microblogging social networking service. 

Social Media for Business Research

April Kessler provided a list and presentation of Social Media websites that are being used for business research, competitive intelligence, business start-ups and much more.

Listorious

Listorious is a search tool that can locate approximately over 2 million Twitter users. You find anyone by region or profession and powered by data from list curators. You search on various topics from business, social media, technology, and etc.

100 Ways to Become a Twitter Power User

100 Ways to Become a Twitter Power User

80 Great Twitter Feeds for Law Students

These twitter feeds maybe geared toward law students, but these resources are useful to other legal professionals too.

http://www.onlinecollege.org/80-great-twitter-feeds-for-law-students

A Few Tweets I'd Rather Not See in 2012

A Few Tweets I'd Rather Not See in 2012

Greg Lambert at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog details a few tweets and hash tags he'd rather not see in the coming year.

New look for Twitter

Post from the Twitter Blog about the new look for Twitter. Be sure to watch their video on the new look at http://fly.twitter.com/.

The 500+ Friend Introvert

The 500+ Friend Introvert

This post from 3 Geeks and a Law Blog intrigues me. Younger people have no problems posting, tweeting, meeting people virtually, but are shy in real life crowds. Is this indicative of the times, or did we have more mentors in the past to shepard us through the first few conferences and social hours?

The DALL Experience: SLA Texas Chapter Annual Fall Meeting

On October 28th I and several of my fellow DALL members attended the 2011 SLA Texas Chapter Fall Meeting at SMU's Cox School of Business. For me, it was great to see familiar faces in the legal and specialty field because I have not seen them in a couple years.

Our first presenter was Gilliam M. McCombs, Dean and Director of the Central University Libraries at SMU. She discussed the technological changes and future of libraries in the present and future.


April Kessler and Laura Young of Austin, TX presented tips and guides in utilizing social media applications such as LinkedIn and Twitter to search for job opportunities and career advancement.


August Jackson of Ernst & Young provided an excellent presentation on using the internet to research privately-held companies. Jackson mentioned different information resources, techniques and approaches that would benefit one's information hunt such as strategic planning, choosing the right analytical frameworks, knowing the the kinds of information is commonly sought, the best secondary sources (Privco, Capital IQ, Hoovers & etc.), dissecting a company's website, viewing source codes, and utilizing Google's link operator, legal regulatory filings and understanding the code of ethics as a intelligence researcher.


After our lunch break, we had a session called Speed Daing with Technology Tools and Applications. Seven tables had a session on a particular product that had a unique function such as Google Goggles, an image recoginition mobile app that translates a text in a different language and identify images or paintings instanting. Mailtester allows a user to confirm email addresses and is very useful when conducting business research by tracking down email address for company executives. Flipboard is a digital social magazine app that aggregates web links from social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. The content will be displayed in a magazine format on an iPad. DALL's own Barbara Fullerton of Morningstar, Inc. presented shortcuts on the iPhone such as creating webclips, moving icons, organizing home folders, voice control and more.


Last but certainly not the least was our keynote speaker Jack Plunkett, CEO of Plunkett Research, Ltd and author of The Next Boom. Plunkett discussed occurrances in the previous boom (1982-2007) such as population growth, soaring global trade, growth of the middle class and increased access to credit. Later, Plukett stated the foundations of the Next Boom (Between Now and 2025) in our world will be based on growing population, increased consumerism, less financial debt, advanced technology such as Biotech, Nanotech and Remote Sensors and a rise in the middle class.

The 7 Sins of Social Media

Lawyerist.com has provided a list of do's and don'ts in the use of social networking in the legal field. Read here.

Why We Need Libraries in the Digital Age

Mark Roosa, Dean of Libraries at Pepperdine University, explains even though we are entrenched with internet researching with Google and Wikipedia along with Web 2.0 applications such as Facebook and Twitter, there is still a need to have libraries. Read more of this article.

Thank you librarian - Twitter

Do you tweet? If so, use the hash tag #thankyoulibrarian for a shout out to your favorite librarians past or present. Hat tip to Huffington Post.

Private Law Libraries Daily

New daily feed to mark - http://paper.li/privatelawlibs. You can subscribe to this gathering of Twitter feeds in your email as well as going to the URL. This is a compilation of tweets with the hash mark #km.