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.
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.
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.
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.
