Online Networking for Lawyers

Online social and business networking sites are a booming business. Tap into the success of these powerful tools by using them to strengthen your business and personal connections, share your expertise, and enhance your marketing and recruiting efforts.

This is the lead in for the article I wrote, Online Networking for Lawyers (pdf.), for the January 2008 issue of Trial Magazine, themed Law Firm 2.0.

The article is reprinted with permission of TRIAL (January 2009).
Copyright American Association for Justice, formerly Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA®).

Cross-posted from DougCornelius.com: Online Networking For Lawyers

Wiki While You Work

In the latest knowledge management white paper from the International Legal Technology Association is an article authored by me: Wiki While You Work [pdf]. There are some other great articles in the white paper. Here is the table of contents:

• Collaboration and Competitiveness: New Tools for Collaborating and Managing Knowledge By Guy Wiggins of Keely Dry & Warren LLP
• Wiki While You Work by Doug Cornelius
• Show Them the Value! Using KM to Bring More Value to Clients by Mary F. Panetta of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P.
• Developing Document Assembly Tools: A Tale of Two Applications by Eric Little of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, PC
• 2008 ILTA KM Survey Results by Catherine Monte of Fox Rothschild LLP and Mara Nickerson of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Pages and Sites in SharePoint 2007

Mark Miller of EndUserSharepoint.com published a guest blog post from me: Pages and Sites in SharePoint 2007 (Case Study). It shows some of the advantages of using multiple pages within a Sharepoint site.

Wikis versus Document Management System

My article comparing wikis to a document management systems is published this month in two sister publications. KM Legal Magazine has it published as Which route? and Inside Knowledge Magazine has it published as EI Case Study: Wiki versus DMS at Goodwin Procter.

LinkedIn to My Facebook on My Blog

I co-authored an article with Jenn Steele of Leading Geeks entitled LinkedIn to My Facebook on My Blog. The article is on social media for lawyers and law firm staff.

The article appears in the March 2008 white paper from the International Legal Technology Association entitled Marketing Technologies - Putting Your Best Face Forward.

The article is reprinted here with permission.

For more information about ILTA, visit their website at www.iltanet.org.

Is CRM Worth It? The Pros and Cons of Client Relationship Management

I wrote part of a case study for Law Practice magazine from the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management Section: Is CRM Worth It? The Pros and Cons of Client Relationship Management.

Simon Chester, Connie Crosby, Ross Fishman and I all pointed out the pros and cons of a law firm adopting a client relationship management program. I think all of us agreed that a CRM system is generally a good thing to have. I think we also all agreed that adopting a CRM system is hard to implement from a technology and a cultural perspective. You need the firm's lawyers and staff to be willing to share their contact information. You also need the technology to make it easy to share.