Web 2.0
Social software at Addleshaw Goddard
Blog beginnings Addleshaw Goddard started using social software over three years ago by using WordPress to run two blogs for a couple of our business services teams. The IT team replaced a traditional weekly email newsletter with a blog. This covered reports on the various activities they were engaged in, together with more informal posts […]
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Using Web 2.0 within the organisation
Expensive centralised, standalone systems and complex processes of communicating and storing information are amongst some of the main contributors to wasteful and inefficient processes. People need to work on a platform that gets them out of their in-boxes and word documents. New tools like wikis, blogs, RSS and personal dashboards are combined in this platform […]
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Managing Web 2.0 risk
In very broad terms, the chief characteristic of Web 2.0 is the development of new ways of working ”” in particular, embracing new ways of interacting with clients. This approach is already being embraced in the commercial sector. As the prospect of volume legal service providers approaches, law firms will need to address this new […]
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Getting it wrong with Web 2.0
Businesses have been using social media (Web 2.0 services) such as blogs, podcasts, virtual worlds and professional networking sites for quite some years as part of their marketing and communications efforts. No business has been able to ignore the implications of these new forms of expression and interaction; just because you’re not writing or talking […]
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Engaging with Web 2.0
Back in the early days of the internet, much of the debate within law firms was around whether they should have a website and, if so, then who was going to look at it. Was it even appropriate for lawyers to have a website, was it demeaning for professionals to use these types of technologies […]
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Company Law Forum
Company Law Forum from LexisNexis is the first attempt at a substantial Web 2.0 site from a “mainstream” law publisher. It is intended to provide an environment for the legal and business community to share insights and discuss company law-related issues. It is free to access; registration entitles you to create a profile, publish opinions, […]
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CaseCheck – Law 2.0 in action
CaseCheck (www.casecheck.co.uk) is a free, fully searchable, online archive of continually updated Scottish Court and EAT Case summaries. Built upon an open source blogging platform the content for the site is user generated and archive is composed of a back catalogue of previously issued email newsletters. However, the site is also designed to be a […]
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Introducing Law 2.0
The internet is changing from a one-to-many broadcasting medium to a many-to-many communications system. It is becoming a shared resource where anyone can put forward their ideas, amend or correct the ideas of others, talk to their friends, locate long lost friends or find new ones, create and load up pictures or video clips or […]
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What is Web 2.0?
The phrase “Web 2.0” was coined by Tim O’Reilly in 2003 and refers to the way software developers are now using the web as a platform for delivering applications to end users and the consequent transition of websites from isolated information silos to sources of content and functionality. It is often referred to as the […]
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What’s in it for lawyers?
(Continuing the article What is Web 2.0?) Inevitably, Web 2.0 has spawned numerous industry-specific buzzwords: “Gov 2.0” is Web 2.0 in the context of government, “Library 2.0” is Web 2.0 as it relates to librarianship, and of course “Law 2.0” is Web 2.0 for lawyers. What relevance does Web 2.0 have for lawyers and the […]
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Web 2.0 – and some of the legal issues
For the legal world attempting to come to terms with the implications of the internet, the thought that the world has already moved on may come as something of a shock; however, such is the case. Web 2.0 is upon is – even if Web 1.0 doesn’t seem to have been fully assimilated. Web 2.0 […]
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Web 2.0 and privacy: risks and solutions
It is sometimes difficult to comprehend how, in the not too distant past, anyone could book a hotel without looking at TripAdvisor or could invite someone out for lunch without checking a user review published in Toptable or london- eating. Today, we rely on the collective wisdom of total strangers (although not necessarily to the […]
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