Comments on: Lawyers need to understand the web and media (aka web 2.0 and new media)

By: Oh No! Not another Rage against the Machine-Joe McElderry post! | No option for Law Firm

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:52:40 +0000

[...] get us all go web 2.0 and set up internal facebook systems. No, this is simply to raise awareness. As I’ve mentioned before Legal IT’ers need to be educating their lawyers (and perhaps some of their colleagues) about [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:44:15 +0000

The above You Tube link isn’t spam, it’s a pretty good video on web 2.0

By: Artis

Artis — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:35:38 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

By: Daryl

Daryl — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:24:03 +0000

I agree that alot of the terminology in use is beginning to appear a bit dated. Some tech bloggers are already referring to “Web 3.0″.
However, the terms are useful hooks onto which to hook a discussion, but I doubt that they mean anything whatsover to your average lawyer.

What to replace them with though? Is there a danger of further dumbing down (God help us – please no!!)

By: Peninsulawyer

Peninsulawyer — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:45:54 +0000

I am always amazed by how many lawyers will happily write about Twitter and social networking whilst clearly having no first hand experience themselves. I agree that there is no reason to expect all lawyers to Tweet, but like anything else I would expect to have at least a working knowledge before claiming to understand (or dismiss) it!

I agree too that they key is knowing which communication tools to use for what. A lot of people still haven’t really mastered this for email to be honest… great tool for lots of things, but terrible for the kind of tricky, contentious conversations that it is tempting to use it for (presumably because it avoids having the awkward conversation face to face!).

On the subject of web 2.0 – why is it the only thing which seems to leap whole versions? What happened to web 1.6?

I do think that a lot of the terminology floating around could use a second look. Social networking? Is there any other kind? Just need to think of something better to describe it…