Whenever I am invited to speak at an event, there is always the risk that I will receive a bad time slot (like the last of the show) or a boring topic. Fortunately I had the opportunity to speak in the "next to last" time slot of the show and was offered the exciting topic below.

ILTA is by far the best legal technology conference in the US, and the Orlando Ritz one of my favorite places to stay. It was at this same hotel that my youngest son learned to walk, and it was also this hotel that treated my mother like a queen on the last full day I would spend with her before her passing. Several people asked why I skipped the popular shorts and tee shirts during the week and stuck with my customary Armani business attire. The simple answer is that I wore what felt best.



Topic: IP Telephony / Voice Over IP Implementation and the RFP Process
Venue: International Legal Technology Association's 2007 Conference in Orlando.
Data/Time: 2:00 pm, August 23, 2007
Speakers:

• Warren Jones, Chief Information Officer, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
• Dean Leung, Director of Information Technology at Davis LLP

Downloads
Presentation

• Flash (click each page to advance)
• PDF
• Keynote '08 (6.8MB zip)

RFP Requirements List

Dean's presentation and full ILTA event content will be available on the ILTA '07 website.

Tags: VoIP

Spoke in Atlanta as a keynote along with Dan O'Connell of Gartner on Voice over IP. Good session with good questions.

HOSTED VoIP EDUCATIONAL LUNCHEON
LEARN HOW A PRESTIGIOUS GLOBAL LAW FIRM—VOTED BY FORTUNE MAGAZINE READERS AS A TOP "GO-TO LAW FIRM” EVALUATED AND IMPLEMENTED A HOSTED VOIP SOLUTION

The presentation in flash format is here.
The event notice is here.
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Tags: Law Technology, Information Infrastructure, Efficiency, VoIP

Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Software: Industry Outlook and the New Software as a Service/Application Service Provider Business Models

When: 8:30 am, Saturday, June 17, 2006 More...

Scheduled Presentation | 2006 LawTech Summit
Hyatt Regency, Windwatch, Hauppage, NY
May 15-16, 2006
www.lawtechsummit.com

Presentation Outline
• Revisiting what made second generation KM
• Understanding what technology did – and did not do
• The organizational impact of working KM
• The link between KM, CRM, Governance and Business Development
• Is there Knowledge without people?
• Integrating portal, CRM and intranet technology for a seamless flow applying innovation to technology to develop client-centered sites and generate revenue stream and market development of your firm
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Tags: Knowledge Management

fiction writing

"I write when I when I am not reading. Sometimes I do both at the same time."

"Calling it fiction makes it easier to write."

I write about life, and I am only an expert on my own. The names may be different, but you'll see a bit of me in every character.

I spoke at a Customer Advisory Forum gathering hosted by Autonomy Software at the Ritz Carlton in South Central Park, Manhattan Thursday and Friday morning. Autonomy is a company based in Cambridge, UK and San Francisco, USA that provides some amazing tools for finding and managing information. They support search in just about any language and any type of information including text, audio and video. As can be the case with these events, there was more energy spent converting the converted than needed. But overall, the event was well planned and executed. I heard a some good presentations and learned a few things.

I've made heavy use of Autonomy technology when building PWSP's information infrastructure. Autonomy offered a powerful search platform that includes every conceivable search related facility. Autonomy's search links our enterprise systems and enables employees to simultaneously search expertise, best practice documents, contacts, clients, prior work, docket (calendars), intranet and internet content. The PWSP LLP infrastructure includes millions of pages of documents and other media types, each requiring some level of security. Autonomy's security is rock solid.

My presentation provided an overview of the development of Information Infrastructure at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. I showed our first and second generation systems and described our lessons learned with each. I also gave a glimpse at the next generation, currently under development. Presentation in Acrobat PDF format.

At the seminar, there were a dozen attendees from the U.S., U.K., and Austrailia. Media and healthcare companies were well represented. The most interesting presentation was presented by Joseph Britto, MD of Isabel Healthcare who was motivated to develop a medical diagnostic KM system after the loss of a patient. Dr. Britto provides a good demonstration of the potential of KM software in the medical profession and also a great human interest story.

Tags: Knowledge Management

Just done with reviews. The responsibilities matrix is a handy tool I use each year in the assessment process. My process is simple,
1. Figure out who is supposed to do what
2. Assess based on what each is supposed to do.
Seems kind of basic,... and it is. Adobe Acrobat PDF, XML OK for some project management apps