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 …

Of course, you are the person in charge of your future. But more importantly, your staff and your clients will be looking for you to take the lead and demonstrate that you have planned where you are going. They will be looking to you to be the light that shows them the right path to take in this confusing times.

Editor’s note: This tip was provided by Ted Tjaden, National Director, Knowledge Management at McMillan, Slaw contributor, and . Thanks Ted!

Although many law librarians “complain” of the tendency for law students to go straight online before thinking about the issues and consulting print and online secondary resources, I remain surprised by the number of smart law students who when they go online have never used

Google Advanced Search has a number of advantages over a simple Google search:

• Search within a a site or domain: limit your search to a particular domain or URL (e.g., “un.org”)

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There are times when a text message gets better attention than an email. And then there are times when you’re not able to text from you phone — for example because you’re at your desk and your phone is… elsewhere. In such cases, you can use your email program to fashion the 160-character message and ship it off to your recipient’s phone.

You only have to know which service your recipient uses (because each service has its own text-as-email address), which is likely to be the case if you’re sending the message to a friend or an office-mate who has …

You don’t need to make it completely impossible for someone to steal a server, you just need to keep them busy long enough for the police to arrive.

Google+ is now open to anyone so I thought it would be appropriate to share a tip for legal research on this social media tool.

First – a caution: the only thing that Google+ will tell you about a topic is who cares about it. Sometimes that is important to identify when looking at a legal research issue.

How do you search Google+? This is one of the new features announced yesterday

Search in Google+
You’ve been asking for it, and we’ve been busy building it, so today we’re bringing Google’s search expertise to Google+. Just type what you’re looking

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