online information 2007 presentation
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Talk at Online Information 2007 December 4th 2007TRANSCRIPT
What are the Law Publishers up What are the Law Publishers up 2? ; Their use of Web 2.0 and its 2? ; Their use of Web 2.0 and its impact on usersimpact on users
James Mullan
Chair – British & Irish Association of Law Librarians Legal Information Group
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Who are the major UK Law Publishers?Who are the major UK Law Publishers?
Lexis Nexis Butterworth's (LNB) (Reed Elsevier) Sweet & Maxwell (S&M) (Westlaw) (Thomson) Informa LLP Practical Law Company (PLC)
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What is Web 2.0?What is Web 2.0?
“Content driven services (where content is both created and shared by its users) – Davey Winder, Information World Review 09.07
“The Web as a platform” Tim O’Reilly 30.09.2005
Web 2.0 refers to a second generation of web-based communities and hosted services which aim to facilitate creativity collaboration, and sharing between users - Wikipedia
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What are “Web 2.0” applications?What are “Web 2.0” applications?
Blogs RSS Wikis Social Networking Sites Other tools (Webinars/Podcasts)
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BlogsBlogs
LNB Blogs (Reed Construction) In the U.S Lexis Nexis offer consolidated Blog
content via Newstex
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RSSRSS
Informa (I-law) have offered RSS feeds since the rollout of the new platform.
Most Informa publications offer RSS feeds for new content (Subscription based model)
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WikisWikis
Law Publishers are doing very little in this area. PLC Real Estate Wiki
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Social Networking SitesSocial Networking Sites
Publishers use of these applications has been sporadic
Facebook is the most popular Social Networking site at this moment in time.
Westlaw are a user on Facebook and have Groups supporting users
Lexis Nexis groups are less client focused
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Other tools – Webinars and PodcastsOther tools – Webinars and Podcasts
Webinars – Lexis Nexis Butterworth’s Podcasts – Sweet & Maxwell
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What does it all mean for users?What does it all mean for users?
A much richer user experience Support for the Web 2.0 “savvy” More opportunities to collaborate and work with
the publishers
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What publishers aren’t doing!What publishers aren’t doing!
Collaborating with customers Creating communities
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