I’m looking forward to my first visit to Hong Kong to participate in what promises to be a great KM event: Ark Group’s 15th Annual KM Asia conference on November 18-19, 2015.
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Speaking
I Don’t Hate PowerPoint
The Master
Recently, before a conference I attended, someone said to me, “Oh, I know you hate PowerPoint presentations. So do I. This will be horrible.”
To the contrary, I don’t hate PowerPoint presentations (or Apple Keynote presentations, for that matter). I do feel a bit tortured when someone misuses PowerPoint to kill an otherwise good and interesting presentation. I’m not alone, of course. So many of us have been subjected to so many bad presentations that some people have sworn off PowerPoint altogether. But for you presenters out there, my advice is: don’t give up hope. Just give up the bad practices that make bad PowerPoint presentations.
So here are a few points I think are important. I certainly won’t cover all there is to know about making presentations. I’m no expert, but there are some great expert resources out there (see below for a list).
Don’t Read Your Slides
Everyone knows this. Everyone says, “don’t do it.” Everyone hates when others do it. So why do so many people still do it? Read more
Upcoming KM Presentations at LegalTech (and Beyond)
LegalTech New York and The Sixth Annual Law Firm Chief Information & Technology Officers Forum are right around the corner – coming up February 1 -3, 2010. I’m looking forward to participating on a couple of panels:
First: External Knowledge Management: Using Internet Resources to Your Advantage, at LegalTech on Monday, February 1 at 4:15 p.m. I am joining David Hobbie, Litigation Knowledge Management Attorney at Goodwin Procter LLP (and author of the Caselines blog), and Tom Baldwin, Chief Knowledge Officer at Reed Smith, LLP. Rob Saccone, Vice President, General Manager, XMLAW at Thomson Reuters is moderating.
Here’s the outline:
- Explore free and paid-for services and content sources becoming available for firms to support their knowledge management, marketing and practice needs
- Using search sites and social networks for legal research, competitive intelligence and current awareness about clients and partners
- Find information that is out there about your firm
- Going beyond Google
- Best practices for understanding the messages the marketplace is sharing about you and your firm and how to manage the data
Next: Enterprise Search: How to Mitigate Risk and Drive Productivity, at the CIO – CTO Forum on Wednesday, February 3, at 11:00 a.m. I am joining Ali Shahidi, Director of Knowledge Management at Bingham McCutchen LLP and Bill Puncer, Search Advantage Evangelist at LexisNexis.
Description from the program: Law firms are increasingly inundated with information. Join us for a lively presentation on managing that information—making it searchable; actionable and enhancing its value within the enterprise, thus managing your risk exposure and driving productivity. Discover how an enterprise search platform can power a range of flexible tools your firm can use to integrate, enrich and manage both internal and external information, reducing the risk of making costly mistakes and increasing productivity within the enterprise.
Also of interest is The Business of Law Symposium, Charting a Successful Course in Today’s Brave New World, sponsored by LexisNexis at LegalTech on Monday, February 1, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. This promises to be very interesting, starting with a Keynote by Bruce MacEwen of Adam Smith, Esq. There are three other sessions: Knowledge Management; New Structures for the New World; and Future Strategies. Other notable speakers include: Ali Shahidi (see above) and Oz Benamram, Chief Knowledge Officer at White & Case, and too many others to list. The program is eligible for up to 4 CLE credits.
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