Social media
The impact of social networking on firms
I recently attended “Enterprise 2.0 – The evolution of collaboration in your business”, an Ark Group conference looking at how the collaborative technologies underlying Web 2.0 can be used within organisations. There was a good mix of attendees, with a few from legal, but others from the pharmaceutical, media, communications, finance and other sectors. There […]
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MyNetworking
The word “networking” usually evokes those awkward moments at conferences when you’re standing alone in the crowd, sipping a coffee and wondering when to leave. That awkwardness comes from not having any known basis for politely introducing yourself. Even a single item of information about another person can be enough to show that you are […]
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The Network in 2008
In 2008 Facebook et al will continue to prosper, but there is room on the web for anyone with particular expertise and as to what Web 2.0 can do for lawyers, we should be looking elsewhere. In 2008 we’ll see the incumbent law publishers experimenting with Web 2.0, attempting to engage users on their own […]
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Stealing invisible assets
Sometimes it must seem idyllic to escape from the stresses and strains of this “real world” and take refuge in virtual worlds far from these worldly issues. Unfortunately, the scourge of copyright infringement has arrived in our virtual utopia. The case which considers this issue is Eros LLC v John Doe (secondlife.reuters.com/media/SDOC1202.pdf), in which Eros, […]
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