14 May 2009
Green Grads Grab #7
Crowdsourcing is a new twist on the established concept of outsourcing. Essentially, companies use the internet to outosource their work to ‘crowds’ (that is, an anonymous group of people) and use that output in part of a bigger, usually internal, project.
The people at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog are testing whether this new Crowdsourcing method can be useful for law firms. At the moment they are yet to come up with any kind of solid conclusion, but I imagine the results will be quite interesting.
Fake Edit: It looks like the initial results are pretty positive.
Matt Homann, from the blog the [non]billable hour has come up with a nice list of his ‘rules’ for networking. Definitely worth a look.
Now that you’re an expert on how to schmooze, you need business cards, right? Well a new free service called Business Card Star will help you get them. All you need is some thick card like paper (and everyone loves an excuse to go to Office Works) and a home printer. Get to work!
(Remember to make sure you identify yourself as a law student, or whatever your current status is. There will likely be laws against palming yourself off as a lawyer if you’re a student or articled clerk!)
To be honest, I think I’d have a much easier time remembering the ratio of a judgment if I knew that its author could beat me up.
I’d also be more inclined to pay attention to judgments if I thought the author .. well, see for yourself.
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