The Jason the Content Librarian blog tends to be well informed about most things law library so we though it worth directing you toward this review...
Here's the introduction to his post - you can link to the rest of the review at the url below
?Innovation isn?t a goal, useful is a goal. If you can be useful and innovative, even better. But useful first.? ? Jason Fried, 37 Signals
It might seem like a cop out, or a bad review, or even patronizing. But when I say Wolters Kluwer?s Intelliconnect product is useful I mean that as a high compliment. As the quote above states, one of my favorites, useful is something to aspire to.
A few weeks ago Wolters Kluwer invited myself and several other law library bloggers to New York to meet with some executives and trainers to learn some more about their Intelliconnect product. Full Disclosure: because this demo was in New York City, and I live in the New York metro area I did not accept any compensation from Wolters Kluwer, except for a lunch on the day of the demo.
We have this product at the school, but I haven?t given it much use. This training makes me think I might find a use for it, I might not otherwise had seen. Part of the problem for academic institutions is that this is really a practitioners tool. It?s really geared towards practicing attorneys who live and breathe their practice areas and the editorial content Wolters Kluwer provides for them. I could go into a lot of different aspects of this product ? there is a lot to cover ? but I am just going to focus on a couple of things that stood out to me.
First, Intelliconnect is not a ?Wow? product. It?s not going to overwhelm you with a slick interface or fancy features. Rather it is a workhorse product, one with valuable editorial content and a serviceable online interface for accessing it.
