Canadian Law Blog Awards

Steve Matthews of Stem Legal has announced the winners of the Canadian Law Blog Awards for 2008.

Congratulations to the winners!

For the second year in a row that includes me. Once again, Steve bestowed a Friend of the North Award, as a U.S. blogger that looks north of the border to network and exchange ideas. I am honored to share this award with Mary Abraham of Above and Beyond KM (newly re-launched at www.aboveandbeyondkm.com).

I was happy to see Jordan Furlong's Law21 as the winner of best Canadian Law Blog. He has wonderful insight into the practice and business of law.

It was tough to beat out SLAW with its all star line-up of contributors, including Jordan. They did not go home empty-handed. SLAW grabbed the CLawBie Legal Culture Award and Best Legal Technology Award.

The delightful Connie Crosby picked up the Non-legal Audience Award CLawBie for her Connie Crosby blog and micro-blogging on Twitter.

Those also happened to be my three nominees for CLawbies.

CIO 100 Awards

CIO.com announced the winners of their 2008 CIO 100 Awards honoring 100 companies that are creating new business value by innovating with technology.

Two law firms made the list:

Goodwin Procter for Matter Pages

Goodwin Procter deployed Matter Pages to manage matter-related information for more than 850 attorneys working in eight different locations. Matter Pages uses Microsoft SharePoint to provides a single access point to all matter-related information, along with a wiki that attorneys can use to discuss their work and exchange information. Among its benefits, the system enables attorneys to pull together information for clients with a click, when before it used to take hours.

Shook, Hardy & Bacon for CityLink:

The law firm redesigned its corporate portal, CityLink, to support an integrated, collaborative work environment. The portal provides tools, including shared calendars, RSS newsfeeds, blogs and wikis, along with links to internal websites and client-oriented extranets. CityLink uses Microsoft's SharePoint to integrate a variety of corporate data repositories ranging from human resources and accounting information to client records and litigation support databases.

Five of the winners labeled their project's type as knowledge management:

• IBM for its Enterprise Tagging Service
  
• MediSend International for its Global Education Center
  
• Modine Manufacturing for its enterprise search tool
  
• Shook, Hardy & Bacon for CityLink
• Vanguard Group for tis Digital Communication Initiative
  

(I am not sure why the Goodwin Procter project was not labeled as knowledge management.)

Real Lawyers Have Blogs

The folks over at Lexblog decide to interview me on Real Lawyers Have Blogs: Doug Cornelius of Goodwin Procter [LexBlog Q & A].

Thanks to Rob La Gatta for making me sound reasonably intelligent and Kevin O'Keefe for putting me on the interview list.

CLawBies Follow-Up

Steve Matthews was kind enough to not only award me a CLawBie, but to actually put together an award badge.



Now I can clear my shelf, waiting for the trophy to arrive.

Maybe a trophy like this:


Or Like this:



Since the award is from Canada, it may be more like this: