As of yesterday, Canadians can use Google’s Map Maker to correct and add details to places in Canada that appear on Google Maps. You can add roads, hiking paths, buildings, businesses and just about any other detail or point of interest that only a local person would know.

Map Maker brings the Wikipedia model the world of online mapping and proves once again that there is order in chaos. People in 188 other countries and regions around the world have had a chance to use Map Maker and the results are amazing. Changes are reviewed by Google staff or other …

By continually meeting your client's expectations and fulfilling the plans that you set together for their file, as well as gradually implementing your overall plans for the firm, you will be taking discrete steps that will take you to your goals.

I am the kind of law librarian who likes to read legislation.  I know, it is weird.  It is particularly nice to have frequently needed legislation sources in my pocket.  I have posted before about the keeping your rules of court handy on your eReader.  Today’s Tip includes steps for putting statutes on your mobile device.

John Papadoupoulos wrote about the Canadian Law app that is available through Apple’s App Store. This app sounds neat, and it might work very well for you. I prefer law from the source and thought it would be good to outline the alternative for …

Sometimes data just demand to be presented in the form of a table. Besides, there’s something pleasing about lining things up this way and that way; it seems to make whatever is in the table cells clearer and your sense of control firmer.

While creating tables in Word isn’t all that hard, it does require going up to the menu and fishing around for the right buttons to push. If all you want is a series of compartments — cells — for confining a set of thoughts in a single row, you can whip up a table right from the …

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it” according to Dwight Eisenhower.

A leader rarely exists in a vacuum. Leaders have to interact with those whom they wish to influence in order to achieve results.  That involves effectively communicating with those with whom you wish to interact.

There are so many aspects of the practice of law that are dependent on effective communication that it is difficult to know where to start.  Accordingly, perhaps the most important quality of communication is listening.  Lawyers often assume that in …

Today’s Tip: seeing is believing.

If you have an interest in a particular area of law, for example human rights, you should be aware of what is happening at the Supreme Court of Canada in regards to your topic.

Today, the SCC is hearing a case from the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal called Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission v. William Whatcott.  The SCC Case information page (link location) leads to a summary, the docket, the Factums and the live (or archived) webcast. 

Webcasts for SCC hearings can be viewed directly in your Internet Explorer browser using the  plugin.  If …

Over the years, Google doodles (adaptations of the standard Google logo) on the Google homepage have generated surprise and interest for people visiting the Google site to do a search. Doodles celebrate events, holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous people.

The concept of the doodle was born in 1998 when Google founders Larry and Sergey played with the corporate logo to indicate their attendance at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. A stick figure drawing was placed behind the 2nd “o” in the word, Google and the revised logo was intended as a comical message to Google …

Before your office ever opens, take time to prepare your business plan and plan for success.

One of the great things about Twitter is that you can follow along with what is happening at a continuing education seminar that you are not attending.

Ted Tjaden and I are presenting, along with other great speakers, for the Legal Education Society of Alberta on .

For today’s tip, I have been tweeting tips, as have others, at #LESAonline…

“Search by Image” is an amazing new search functionality that Google now has. And to be clear, this isn’t the same as Google’s image search (i.e., searching for an image using a string of text).

Search by Image lets you find other occurrences of an image on the web, as well as all sorts of other content from the web that’s related to a specific image. For example, search using a picture of your favourite band and you will see search results that might include similar images, webpages about the band, and even sites that included the same …