For law firms, web technologies, including email and websites, are now familiar elements of doing business.  To improve client service and internal business processes, some firms are turning to new technologies, including blogs, wikis, social bookmarking and other social networking tools.

On 24 September 2008, we are hosting a breakfast meet-up (in our London office) to share with leaders of knowledge management, technology and marketing our experience and insights into the design, implementation and adoption of these new web technologies within leading international law firms. 

From our work with these firms, we have seen how the new technologies have been used inside the organisation to better connect people with each other and current relevant information, resulting in:

• improvements to people's ability to find expertise and share ideas
• greater freedom to communicate with people in more useful and direct ways
• creation of a near perfect 'recommendation-engine' through the aggregation and display of people's reading, writing and commenting behaviours.

The meet-up will focus on improving and expediting current awareness processes through the use of newsfeeds, group blogs, wiki-based group collaboration, social bookmarking and tagging.  We will showcase the social software platform we developed for Dewey & LeBoeuf to illustrate how these tools can be used to create a stream of high value news, hot topics, recommendations and publications.