Knowledge Management - The Osbournes are My Inspiration
I've been thinking about Jim McGee's Knowledge Management postings a lot. It's hard to keep up with them because they raise so many issues. I'd like to contribute to the information stream, but I'm not sure how. But, taking a cue from the new MTV hit show The Osbournes (about Ozzie, the burned out Black Sabbath lead singer, and his pedestrian home life), I've decided to have my own knowledge worker channel. It will be about an attorney in New Orleans at a 40 lawyer firm that is trying to have his firm implement and use technology. I don't know if it will help Jim by providing him raw material from the field (so to speak) but it will help me to ventilate my frustrations.
The legal profession is, theoretically populated almost exclusively by knowledge workers. So what's the plot question? Here are a fw possibilities. Will law firms figure out how to use technology to help themselves? If so, how will they figure it out? And why can't they figure it out sooner? What sort of office politics stand in the way?
So I plan to post a fairly raw feed of experience. I don't claim it's representative of the overall legal profession. It represents what I know (I leave it to others to analyze it in a larger context). I will occasionally add some commentary (again probably out of the inability to refrain from trying to make sense of my frustration), but I will mostly try to just put raw information down and let others (if there are any others who might be so inclined) to extract meaning. And with that point having been made, I will admonish that I don't plan to edit my postings much. For better or worse, they will be mostly stream of consciousness.
So, without further adieu, let the show begin...
10:43:45 AM 
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