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Daily Archives: May 27, 2009

New on LLRX.com: Navigating the Enterprise 2.0 Highway

Navigating the Enterprise 2.0 Highway: Heather Colman provides an overview of Hicks Morley’s implementation of ThoughtFarmer, an Enterprise 2.0/wiki style intranet platform, one year ago. Despite a few growing pains, she describes how the application was successful at meeting the primary objectives to decentralize content updates and increase knowledge sharing and collaboration within the firm.

Tips from FDIC on How to Protect Against Foreclosure Frauds, Easy Money Schemes and Other Costly Deals

News release: “Many people concerned about their mortgage, their job or their finances may be especially vulnerable to scams and other costly “fixes” for their problems. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation today issued a variety of tips to help consumers be on guard financially in the current economy. The advice was published in the Spring… Continue Reading

FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile

Quarterly Banking Profile: Fourth Quarter 2008 – The 2009 Economic Landscape: How the Recession Is Unfolding across Four U.S. Regions Alternative Financial Services – A Primer – “Provides the earliest comprehensive summary of financial results for all FDIC-insured institutions. This report card on industry status and performance includes written analyses, graphs and statistical tables.” Continue Reading

World Energy Use Projected to Grow 44 Percent Between 2006 and 2030

News release: “World marketed energy consumption is projected to grow by 44 percent between 2006 and 2030, driven by strong long-term economic growth in the developing nations of the world, according to the reference case projection from the International Energy Outlook 2009 (IEO2009) released today by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The current global economic… Continue Reading

Report: Mortgage-Related Litigation on the Rise

American Lawyer: “Mortgage-related lawsuits are on the rise, with homeowners and investors alike suing over allegedly being duped by the mortgage industry. According to a litigation report from MortgageDaily.com, an online mortgage news analyst, the number of mortgage-related lawsuits filed in the first quarter of this year jumped to 81, a more than 50 percent… Continue Reading

Report on devolution and the governance of England

News release: “Devolution has changed the system of Government of the United Kingdom irreversibly, according to the Commons Justice Committee, but has left England’s government highly centralised and, in the view of many, in need of fundamental change. Report – Devolution: A Decade On – In its report published today, the three-party Committee analyses the… Continue Reading

Commentary on Future of Google Book Search Settlement

Follow-up to previous postings on Google Book Search, Deal or No Deal: What if the Google Settlement Fails? by Andrew Richard Albanese, Publishers Weekly. “Notably, despite a litany of concerns and obvious unease, the library community did not oppose the deal. That’s partly out of an underlying belief that the benefit of a massive database… Continue Reading