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Beyond the buzz: Knowledge Management

In the past quarter, Law.com has significantly fleshed out the number of knowledge management folk blogging with the network -- adding Bruce MacEwen, Joy London, Ron Friedmann and Rees Morrison to the area Monica Bay has long written about on her blog and in the magazines she edits.

Why do you care? Because the management of information quite likely costs your firm -- be it solo, vente or grande -- as much, if not more, than the bodies who manufacture and use it. And attorneys are not alone -- my world, the media world, has been in massive flux over the issue since Steve Jobs left his garage for an office space.

In case you're just dipping a toe into the KM water, I recommend you surf the following:

• Start with Bruce MacEwen's live blog of ALM's CIO/CTO summit. Somehow, he turned the experience into a cheat-sheet cum survey course on KM's burning issues.
• Find out what resources are out there via Ron Friedmann's list of Knowledge Management Resources, including publications, periodicals, blogs, Web sites and books;
• Next, see who's using what: Joy London joined Friedmann to post a list of companies that are doing legal outsourcing, primarily overseas, as I blogged last week;
• Check out Monica Bay's "Monicalogues," located in her right-hand sidebar, for articles on trends (and the truth) on what it's like to apply KM while you're running a firm. For example, "Business Intelligence: Big Promises, Does it Deliver?" (Free reg required, but easy and worth it.)
• Finally, reality-check your own assumptions about how your firm works by reading Rees Morrison's Altruistic Information Sharing Doesn’t Happen: Intranets, Case Management Systems and Knowledge Management.

Posted by Jennifer Moline on April 19, 2005 at 10:41 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)

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