This post was written by Tom Mighell: "Want to grab the text from a PDF and throw it into a Google Doc? Well, now you can. When you upload PDF files to Google Docs, you'll now have the ability to convert text from PDFs or even images and store the text in a Google Docs document. It's not a perfect process, and there are definitely more efficient ways of doing this if you have to OCR (many people have turned the term Optical Character Recognition into a verb) a large number of documents."

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Source: Inter Alia, 31 August 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

From the e-newsletter: "The number of people going online to get information and make important decisions about their lives continues to increase. The legal profession is no exception..."

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Source: FindLaw's The Practice Paper: For Solo & Small Firm Lawyers. 25 August 2010 Copyright © 2010 FindLaw, a Thomson Business. Subscribe  <http://newsletters.findlaw.com/>.

From an email newsletter by Sabrina Pacifici:

"Employment Online Resources

http://www.llrx.com/features/employmentonlineresources2010.htm

This guide for researchers by Marcus P. Zillman is a comprehensive bibliography of resources and sites comprising the latest and most comprehensive, reliable content and value added information currently available on this subject via the Internet.

Basic Legal Research on the Internet

http://www.llrx.com/features/basiclegalresearchinternet.htm

This article explores the corner of the Internet landscape that concentrates on legal research. For the most part, these databases and search tools are free, although some might require a library card. Essentially, this is a short list of "go to" sites that most researchers will find useful. Before delving in, author Ken Strutin also examines a few time tested research concepts for the Internet age.

Problems with Creating a Course to Help Colleagues

http://www.llrx.com/features/courseforcolleagues.htm

How many times have you wondered how to do a task or work with software? You feel wonderful once you have found a colleague who could share their "know-how" about how to complete that task more efficiently or how to implement an applications that does not have a manual that makes sense to you. Lorette S.J. Weldon focuses on four factors to consider when you want to share your knowledge on your own: cost; timing; equipment and global presentation.

FOIA Facts - Ideas for Faster FOIA Processing

http://www.llrx.com/columns/foia60.htm

Scott A. Hodes notes that in the current Congress there are bills pending that would create a commission to come up with ideas for faster FOIA processing. He contends that by taking those ideas, along with a few days of congressional oversight hearings to solicit other opinions, Congress would have ample information to create an actual bill that would implement faster FOIA processing now rather than wait for a "commission" to come up with these same ideas.

What is Open Source?

http://www.llrx.com/features/opensource2.htm

In the past few years, the term open source has been bandied about not just in library-land, but in every industry. When a term is talked about this much, some would say to the point of overuse, people start to think it's a fad. In this and upcoming articles, Nicole C. Engard is here on LLRX to tell you that open source is no fad, and why."

Source: Pacifici, Sabrina. "New on LLRX.com for June 2010." Copyright © LLRX TM, Law Library Resource Xchange, LLC. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://www.llrx.com/subscribe.htm>.

This post was written by Connie Crosby: "I first met Martha Murphy of the Fire Sciences Library at the Office of the Fire Marshal in one of my classes at the Professional Learning Centre (now the iSchool Institute) at the University of Toronto a few years ago.

Martha has been a leader in thinking creatively on how to use social media tools in both research and the dissemination of information to her stakeholders.  This recent presentation gives a good overview of some of the tools she is using. In it she discusses the use of these tools for:..."

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Source: Connie Crosby, 27 May 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written Larry Bodine: "I just discovered a impressive new service called Chat For Lawyers that allows visitors to the your website to click an icon that generates a call directly to you.

I just started using it myself -- visit www.LarryBodine.com and click on the "Click to Call Me" graphic at the top right corner of the web page.  The method combines the best practices of business development, web marketing and voice-over-Internet technology.

I highly recommend it for law firms that want to get calls from prospective clients.  Chat for Lawyers capitalizes on the innate curiosity of website visitors  to click on something new, and the "impulse buying" behavior of human beings, who see something new and want try it..."

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Source: Law Marketing Blog, 24 June 2010. © 2010, Larry Bodine Marketing. Reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Tara Calisham: "If you don't use Wikipedia much, you might think that it's kept "open" all the time, and that any page may be edited at any time by any person. That's not correct. Sometimes pages have to be locked against editing, usually because they have become a target due to something happening in the news. Wikipedia says only about 0.1 percent of the 3.3 million articles on the English Wikipedia are actually being protected against editing.

Wikipedia announced last week that it is taking a different tack in protecting pages. For the next couple of months the site will try something called "Pending Changes". (The Wikipedia page for pending changes is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pending_changes..."

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Source: Research Buzz, 23 June 2010. © 2006-2010 ResearchBuzz, reproduced with permission of the author

This post was written by Agnese Caruso: "HBR's blog post "How Cloud Computing Can Transform Business" (June 4) provides a clear brief overview of cloud computing and its benefits to organizations. It argues that cloud computing's low cost and agility allow it to deliver real business value. The post goes on to provide the definition of cloud computing and its five main characteristics according to the National Institute of Standards and Testing, part of the US Department of Commerce:..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 22 June 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw.

From the e-newsletter:

"Updated - A Compilation of State Lawyer Licensing Databases

http://www.llrx.com/features/lawyerlicenses.htm

Trevor Rosen and Andrew Zimmerman's guide focuses on websites that will help you determine whether a lawyer is currently licensed to practice in a particular state.

Forensic Evidence and the CSI Effect

http://www.llrx.com/features/forensicevidencecsieffect.htm

The media's popularization of certain types of evidence may be inspiring a "CSI effect" on decision makers according to Ken Strutin. There is a question about whether impressions created by the media in its treatment and portrayal of forensic proof as either irrefutable or absolutely necessary for conviction is truly impacting the outcome of criminal cases. Ken's guide is a collection of select legal scholarship and media studies that illuminates the extent of the phenomenon and whether it needs to be addressed and how http://www.llrx.com/features/forensicevidencecsieffect.htm

Knowledge Discovery Resources 2010 - An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation

http://www.llrx.com/features/knowledgediscovery2010.htm

Marcus P. Zillman's latest guide is a touchstone from which all researchers seeking comprehensive, reliable and diverse resources for knowledge discovery via the Internet can benefit. The key is to be able to find the important knowledge discovery resources and sites both in the visible and invisible World Wide Web. This guide to selected knowledge discovery resources and sites offers excellent knowledge and information discovery sources to assist you attaining your research goals.

LLRX Court Rules, Forms and Dockets - updated by law librarian Margaret Berkland

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Source: Pacifici, Sabrina. "New on LLRX.com for May 2010." Copyright © LLRX TM, Law Library Resource Xchange, LLC. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://www.llrx.com/subscribe.htm>.

This post was written by Simon Fodden: "Google Docs has introduced a three-level system of privacy for documents stored in its cloud. Sensibly, the default level is "private," which means only the account holder can get access to the document.

The next level is "anyone with a link." This is the novelty, allowing you to share your Google document by sending a link; the system it replaced required you to email formal invitations to particular recipients..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 17 June 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Laura Bergus: "The people in charge of lawyer ethics oversight in your state see social media either as just another form of communication, or as a special threat to client confidences and attorney decorum. Do you know what rules apply to you?

The basic premise that traditional ethics rules should govern social media seems sound. But some states, like Florida, have decided to pull out online communication as needing special regulation. Here are five areas of concern for lawyers using social media.

Regardless of your state ethics committee's stance, consider taking some time to re-learn the local rules..."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 2 June 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.