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Booker & Webb LLP Wiki Project

LIBR 246-12 Group ProjectEthel DimapasokToshu TakamaruGrace Viola

Information Overload

Solution to Information Overload

Audience

Library StaffPartners & AssociatesParalegalsBusiness

Development Department

Benefits to Users

The newly created Wiki will enable:

Attorneys, paralegals, and legal assistants to freely communicate ideas about research back and forth

Timely, user-friendly collaboration, communication, information and resource sharing, marketing, and research and knowledge management services

Incorporation of more and better sources by facilitating hyperlinking to resources

Benefits to Users

Sending immediate alerts to subscribed users when edits, additions, and deletions occur on the system

Ready reference database for FAQ

24/7 access from anywhere that has an internet

connection

Evidence

Testimonials

Reasons to Use Wikis from Evidence

Lee Rosen, the president of the Rosen Firmexplains why he chooses the Wiki:

Easy to develop and add contentFlexibility of the Wiki platformMaintenance free Inexpensive

Successful Points of Wikis

Rosen Law Firm improves the followingpoints by implementing Wiki:

Boost teamwork Shorten project working time Improve communication skills Better training source

Implementation

Marketing the Wiki

Software: Google Sites

Flexibility and low cost

Very easy to embed documents, calendars, photos, videos and widgets directly in the pages

WYSIWYG editing tools

Anyone can edit or view the contents

Maintenance Plan

The Wiki is open to everyone

Administered by a team of law librarians who will oversee the modifications

Ensure materials are updated and everything is working

Wiki Marketing

Each practice area will have a wiki page and a law librarian assigned

Cultivate the information, solicit contributors

Provide group and one on one training

Hold events and stress the benefits of wiki to knowledge management

Feedback Mechanism

Encourage feedback

Visible comment and contact link

Web counter, internal analytics