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AM Law Tech 2008: IT in the balanceOctober 10

The 13th annual technology survey of AM Law 200 firms makes for a disappointing read from a social software/organisational change perspective.  The report suggests that firms are grappling with issues like "what emerging technologies are worth investing in - and which aren't ready for prime time".  However, in respect of 'collaborative' technologies respondees were asked only whether their firms use web conference software, blogs or wikis.  What!  No mention of RSS, feed readers or aggregators, let alone micro-blogging, friendfeeds, personalised pages, social tagging or content filtering.

The report blandly states that:

"While some firms have dipped their toes in the water -- 43 percent run one or more blogs; 24 percent use intranet wikis (Web pages that let users contribute or modify content) -- it's been fairly ho-hum stuff by Internet standards. Blogs with lawyer posts on happenings in a practice area and wikis to collaborate on interoffice documents are the norm. It's still unclear what sort of future these technologies have in a law office. But seemingly everyone is thinki

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