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July 2004
ARTICLES
Managing knowledge in law firms: is it really different? (abstract) What are law firms doing about knowledge management and taxonomies? How does it compare to other kinds of organizations? This Member Q&A article summarizes responses from four conference calls with law firm information managers.

Book review: Does IT matter? (abstract) Our take on a recent book and article that caused a firestorm of controversy. We look at what it says, speculate on why it caused such an uproar, and draw some conclusions for information managers.

REGULAR FEATURES
Best of the Lists (formerly Best of BUSLIB-L)
Managing internet resources
IT management & policy Web sites
 
Digest: Managing intellectual assets
Annotated links to current articles and interesting Web sites. This month's entry is about how to get the most from your IT analyst firm.
 
How to get the most from our Web site (tutorial)
An overview of our content and tips on how to use it.
 
Top 20 articles
Links to the 20 most popular articles on this site based on last month's server statistics.
 
SEMINARS (see also the calendar listing)
Metadata tools and management September 21/22 (Enfield, CT)
Lecture-demo plus hands-on activities — create an RSS news feed, a Dublin Core metadata generator for Dreamweaver, metadata HTML extractor, metadata management spreadsheet tool, a Microsoft Word metadata template, a search engine thesaurus, and a Web log analytical tool.
Knowledge base editing retreat November 8 - 12 (Amherst, MA)
Five days of hands-on activities covering 5 topics — trends, creating quality content, basic taxonomies, advanced taxonomies, application integration.
 
Creating and using business taxonomies any time (Web-based course)
A hands-on course that covers the fundamentals of business taxonomies: how to do a needs analysis, create a controlled vocabulary, develop a thesaurus, and use taxonomy components in navigation. Includes personalized assistance from our instructors and supervised work on a real project in the Web-based Lab.
 
Integrating taxonomies any time (Web-based course)
A hands-on course that covers the creation and use of authorities as well as the development of two independent thesauri that are linked through cross references. Includes personalized assistance from our instructors and supervised work on a real project in the Web-based Lab.