Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Findlaw’s Tools of the Trade newsletter for October has a useful piece on How Employers Can Survive the New Technological Poker Game of Employee Blogging. The article explains how off-duty blogging by employees can affect business and offers suggestions for developing a blogging policy.
If you are a regular WisBlawg reader, you know that I’m a big fan of RSS feeds. Receiving content via RSS in my RSS reader, Bloglines, has been a tremendous time saver. But, I know that RSS isn’t for everyone. That’s why WisBlawg offers an email subscription in addition to the RSS feed. And from …
This month’s Marketing Treasures, a newsletter about library marketing, has a good piece on the importance of getting to know a user’s needs before making the standard “library sales pitch.” From the conclusion of, “Promotion Gems: Forget the Slides” Your goal during a presentation to a prospective library user is to find out how the …
From Web usability guru, Jakob Nielsen, comes Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes. The mistakes include (See Nielsen’s site above for elaboration): 1. No Author Biographies 2. No Author Photo 3. Nondescript Posting Titles 4. Links Don’t Say Where They Go 5. Classic Hits are Buried 6. The Calendar is the Only Navigation 7. …
The 7th Annual Wisconsin Law and Technology Conference is scheduled for November 8th at the Wyndham Milwaukee Center. This “no geek-speak” conference focuses on technology and practice management education for attorneys, judges, legal support staff, law librarians, legal admissions, court personnel and law firm IT professionals. I’m pleased to be a panelist for two of …
Sorry for the absence last week. I was at the Ohio Regional and Chicago Association of Law Libraries (ORALL/CALL) joint meeting in Indianapolis. It was a great conference with a wide variety of speakers. . . including me. My presentation was entitled, Searching the “New” Web: Blogs and RSS. Other sessions that I was able …
The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau has prepared a guide to Redistricting: Why Legislative Districts Are Redrawn, How It Is Done, and by Whom. The guide is available in PDF.
From the National Center for State Courts: Individual articles from the 2005 Future Trends in State Courts Report are being featured on the Knowledge and Information Services portion of the Web site. Current articles include “Human Trafficking: A Growing Crime to Hit State Courts” and “The Future of Court Security and Judicial Safety.” The report …
In first of its kind two-day event, BlawgThink 2005! will bring together legal bloggers for two days of education, innovation, fellowship and fun. The event will be held at the Catalyst Ranch in Chicago on November 11 and 12. The first day of BlawgThink will feature structured educational sessions led by top legal bloggers covering …
Looks like Google it at it again – this time with its new RSS reader, Google Reader. Perhaps it’s too soon to make a judgment (it is still in beta, afterall), but I wasn’t impressed. The interface isn’t intuitive and it didn’t seem to retain my subscriptions. If you are interested in trying out a …