Join us for a free webinar: Ethical Cloud Computing For Legal Professionals When: Thursday, September 1st at 12PM EST (note: changed from Aug 25th!) CLE: PENDING Speaker: Larry Port of Rocket Matter Description: Just what is this cloud everyone is talking about? From the perspective of the law firm, computing in the cloud eliminates typical IT expenses, management, and headaches. [...]
Yesterday, I came across a spot-on post by Fastcase, Online Privacy Takes Another Hit which was based on the Slate article, The Leaky Nature of Online Privacy . The Slate piece suggests that we consider being more open so that we become more trustworthy. Trustworthy? To whom? I suggest instead, that we pay more attention to tempering our online discourse [...]
Last month our webinar listeners were entertained and enlighted with guest Ari Kaplan, Esq., author of the newly released Reinventing Professional Services – Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace. Ari led a great, thought provoking discussion called Reinventing Your Law Practice In The Recovery that’s worth checking out. If you missed it, we recorded the webinar – you can listen [...]
Our normal Friday segment, the Legal Productivity App of the Week, is on hiatus to celebrate the man who brought us apps in the first place, Steve Jobs. I’m a big history nut, especially intellectual history. And like Woody Allen’s nostalgic characters in Midnight in Paris, I tend to romanticize the past and overlook the gritty present. Steve Jobs, who [...]
As I write this, I’m watching an incredibly scary, strengthening Hurricane Irene making her way closer to the mainland while at the same time my iPhone is being flooded with texts from friends in New York (both sides of the state – Buffalo and NYC), telling me they were all just rattled by an earthquake. Evidently another one preceded it [...]
Announcing a great new community for small and solo law practitioners. Join us! You’re familiar with our Legal Productivity blog, brought to you by the gang at Rocket Matter. We cover a range of topics from cloud computing and mobile to social media, and of course, productivity – issues that affect today’s lawyers, particularly solo practitioners and small law firms.
Facilitating a group discussion can be rewarding for an organization, yet fraught with peril. The ideas and opinions fostered by discussion can increase the effectiveness of an organization but they can also create divisions, invite excessive complaining, and exacerbate rivalries. Group meetings, however, are a critical instrument for sharing knowledge. Capturing team mindshare can help you capture ideas from a [...]
Do you remember scenes in Avatar and Minority Report with the cool computer systems? The actors were able to drag elements from a primary display onto a tablet and walk around with it. Well, guess what. that day is here through a product called Air Display (the software creators have no relationship with Air Supply, so they claim). If you’ve [...]
In our newest series Legal Productivity Tech Tutorials we will share how professionals, like yourself, use cloud-based software and mobile applications, as well as other technical devices to make work more productive, more profitable, and down right more fun!
In yesterday’s post we chatted about digital book reading. Today we switch focus to blogs and the news online and how to efficiently track and consume our favorite sites! We’re bombarded with online news and information. And for the first time in history more people get news online than from newspapers. Technorati, which has been tracking the explosive growth of blogs [...]
