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Introducing Our Panel

Matthew Dickinson - CEO – Linex Systems

Rebecca Gebhardt – Managing Director – Linex Systems

Steve Lastres - Director of Library & Knowledge Management – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Dora Martinez - CKO – Sheppard Mullin

Peter Ozolin – CEO & Chairman - Manzama

News Aggregators

What are they?

Traditional business uses

How have they been used?

What benefits and value can they bring?

Value Proposition of Alert Services

Provides a competitive advantage by making know-how easily accessible

Increases productivity: knowledge workers don’t waste time searching for information

Improves organizational effectiveness by sharing relevant and targeted current awareness

Improves collaboration by fostering knowledge sharing across the organization

Speeds response time to clients

Reduces library staff time by automating the current awareness delivery model

Alert Sources: Free and Proprietary Alerts

Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

Google alerts & news

Lexis (Publisher)

Thomson (Westlaw watch)

Westlaw Business

Intelliconnect

Intelligize

Etc.

Types of Alerts/Services

Client

Practice Group

People

Organization

Industry

Case law

Regulatory

Docket

Market

Geographic

Smart alerts

Centrally Manage Feeds With Aggregator Services

Create a central repository

Mash feeds together

Search within feeds

Add feeds directly to your alerts

Temporarily archive content from your feeds

Publish curated newsletters targeted to specific groups to minimize “noise.”

DEBEVOISE SOLUTION

Ozmosys API Integration with “My Subscriptions”

EOS RSS and Ozmosys Aggregator

Ozmosys Alerts

Curated Newsletters: Selecting Sources and Articles

Curated Newsletters

Competitive Intelligence

Current Awareness Dashboard

Stream Content onto Your Organization’s Intranet

SHEPPARD MULLIN SOLUTION

Understanding our Clients’ Business

Identifying New Business Opportunities

Generate Content for Blogs & Client

Communications

Implementation

What obstacles and surprises were encountered?

How do these solutions affect internal systems and procedures?

What, if any, adjustments to the original business requirements were necessary?

What departments/individuals within the firm were involved?

How long did deployment take?

Considerations – Now & Beyond

Awareness of role changes within law firm personnel

Each business need may be different

Simplicity for end users

Sensitivity to different user needs

What’s Next? – Use Cases

Growing usage for R&I

Integration with additional systems and platforms

Sharing tools with clients

Preparing for and keeping up with changing requirements.

Questions?

Matthew Dickinson - matthew.dickinson@linexsystems.com

Rebecca Gebhardt – rebecca.gebhardt@linexsystems.com

Steven Lastres - salastres@debevoise.com

Dora Martinez - DMartinez@sheppardmullin.com

Peter Ozolin - peter@manzama.com