Sabrina Pacifici

Sabrina has been a law librarian, researcher, web manager, and knowledge initiatives coordinator in Washington, DC for over two decades.  She is the founder, editor and publisher of LLRX.com, since 1996 the only free, independent webzine on law and technology issues for legal professionals, researchers and anyone interested in leveraging technologies solutions on the web, throughout the enterprise, and in collaborative efforts.  Since 2002 she has been the the author of beSpacific.com, the daily blog on law and technology with a special focus on e-government, legislation, privacy, copyright, e-records and legal research. 

Sabrina is also an adjunct professor at the College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, where she teaches courses on Competitive Intelligence, e-Government, Information Architecture and Government Openness.  She is currently developing a new course on post-9/11 access to government information and documents by citizens and researchers.

LLRX.com

beSpacific.com

Sabrina is presenting two post-conference workshops at CiL:  

CiL 2007 Post-conference Workshops

Workshop 14 — Super-Charged Blogging: Delivering Innovative Enterprise and Client Services

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Sabrina Pacifici, Law Librarian, & Editor/Publisher of LLRX.com and beSpacific.com &

Connie Crosby, Library Manager, WeirFoulds LLP

Taught by experienced bloggers, this workshop looks at what communication methods could be replaced by blogging, what manual or online processes could be replaced or supplemented by blogging, and how RSS and news feeds from both local and enterprisewide, fee-based services or free services can improve delivery and awareness of information. It illustrates what can be done with blog applications (e.g., Blogger, TypePad, WordPress, Movable Type); audio posts/podcasting; video posts; posting from cell phones or PDAs; and other hot new features and/or gadgets. With case studies and interactive discussions the following issues are considered: enterprise blogging for certain departments or processes (e.g., getting a reference group or catalogers to create and share resources and ongoing updates); marketing services within an organization and to an organization’s clients; blogging ethics and guidelines; strategies for collaborative blogging; getting nonbloggers to post; using blogs to create RSS feeds; news aggregators; types of information suitable for blogging (i.e., how to set up processes by which you can gather, analyze, compile, and publish current content to your blog); selling blogging as a worthwhile venture in your organization; and more.

Workshop 20 — Mining Blogs & RSS for Research

1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Sabrina Pacifici, Law Librarian, & Editor/Publisher of LLRX.com and beSpacific.com &

Connie Crosby, Library Manager, WeirFoulds LLP

This workshop focuses on leveraging the best of free and low-fee Web sites as well as Web-related services to support research services. It includes “best of the Web” for CI (competitive intelligence), legislation, news, public services, government documents, and information—sites you need to know about and incorporate in your daily work routine.