ILTACON Call For Speakers and Hiatus Explanation

I ceased even irregular blogging for quite a while--I wasn't seeing much interaction, and much of what I was working on wasn't really appropriate for sharing.  But I'm hoping to get back in the game, partly I suppose because one of my current projects is looking at Microsoft Teams, a quite advanced threaded-chat-and-more platform that has gotten my collaboration juices flowing again. More on that later.

My career has continued to evolve--I am now a Director at Goodwin, and also since September have been a co-chair of the incredible events that will be ILTACON 2018 (National Harbor, MD) and ILTACON 2019 (Orlando, FL). 

On that last point, I wanted to share that the ILTACON website now provides a way (for the next few weeks, in any event), for potential speakers and moderators to apply.  This is a new process for ILTACON, one of the joys of working with ILTA and this fantastic group of event professionals and peers is that they are not afraid to try new things!

The way it works is, a full list of sessions is available (the ILTACON committee has been working on developing a set of sessions since October).  Potential speakers or moderators fill out the form, indicating the session where they are seeking to participate. Fill out a separate form for each session in which you are interested.

ILTA Conference 2015

I've been neglecting this blog to some extent in favor of some other channels lately, and also in favor of some other activities.

This year I've been the Team Coordinator for the Information Management "track" at the International Legal Technology Association's annual conference "ILTACON," which starts on Sunday.  The eight members of my team have developed a great slate of 32 sessions addressing knowledge management, information governance, data analytics, social media, innovation in legal services delivery, and related topics.

On the ILTA blog platform, which is somewhat public, I've posted "Find Your Way to the Education You Want" (about how to plan for ILTACON and how to search through conference sessions), and "Knowledge Management Sessions @ILTACON" that has a detailed description of a possible set of sessions of interest to knowledge managers.

I'm also hosting the #tweetup, which is a Community of Interest, Sunday at 4 PM in Genoa.  This year it's hosted by ILTA, and there will be discussion of tweets, tweeps, and tweeting, other social networking, social media sessions, and maybe a little viola playing so we'll have something to tweet about.

Later in the week, if you want to hear me talk about a subject I've been working on a great deal this  year, come to Roman 1 Wednesday at 11 AM for "The Best of Business Intelligence:  Stories of Success", Session #100. I'll be discussing recent experience with the use of visualizations and business intelligence for practice improvement, matter analytics, and  business development.

Lastly, if any readers are at ILTA member organizations and have attended at least one ILTA conference, I hope you'll consider applying for conference committee. I promise that you will learn a lot, meet great colleagues you otherwise would never encounter, and have a great experience.