We’ve gotten strong responses for our wellness content so we’re going to step up the pace with a whole hour of free fitness advice for busy lawyers! When: February 23, 2012, 12:00PM – 1:00PM, EST Speaker: Marc Perry, BuiltLean Limited space. Click here to Register! Do you find it hard to lose fat with a busy office job? Are you [...]
Plugins extends the functionality of WordPress, the already terrific, free, open source blogging platform. But with over 18,000 to choose from, it can quickly get overwhelming. We occasionally review some of our favorite plugins, like WPTouch which allows you to Get Your WordPress Blog Mobile Friendly In Less Than 5 Minutes. Here are three plugins that enhance the back-end administrative [...]
A recent post on Time Management, To-Do Lists, and the 3 + 2 Rule resonated broadly, suggesting that many of us continue to struggle with how to manage the 50, 60, 70 (and more) hours of work we face every week. Summarizing the 3 + 2 Rule: Identify only 3 big things and 2 small things to do in a [...]
Zite is a free personalized magazine that automatically learns what you like and gets smarter every time you use it. It evaluates millions of new stories every day, and uses patterns, categories and user activity to automatically aggregate personalized information to your iPad or iPhone. Zite delivers all the great news, articles, blogs, and videos you want – and helps [...]
Within minutes, I came across these two status updates from friends who work at law firms: “I have too much going on” “I haven’t even gotten to my to-do list yet”. We can all relate. It’s impossible to escape the nonstop online (and offline) flow of Twitter and Facebook, email, voicemail and text messages, the office pop-in and water-cooler chats. [...]
If you blog, the free and open source WordPress is the way to go. The number of sites built with WordPress is over 60 million and counting. Why it is so popular? It offers a range of features and flexibility, with a simple and intuitive backend user interface. It’s optimized for search engines. Oh, and it’s free. But it’s much [...]
Our App of the Week series covers productivity and lifestyle apps as well as legal apps, all leading to a more productive and mobile lawyer. This week’s edition takes a small detour to share the love with some other sites that cover legal apps. iPhone JD – The title says it all. iPhone JD is a site for lawyers using [...]
Remember when we proudly exclaimed “multitasking” as a skill on our resume? That was before social media, and the abundance of online distractions that permeate our increasingly digital work life. And not just our work life. Our social lives are interrupted with smartphone beeps, although in recent social situations it seems to be an increasingly accepted part of the experience. [...]
Occasionally we cover “Lifesyle” apps which go to efficiency, wellness and other issues, leading to increased productivity. CardStar is such an app. I’m not much of a shopper, but appreciate a deal when I see one. Often, those deals are connected to a loyalty card and even more frequently, those cards are either lost or left at home. The one [...]
We’re consuming more information on our mobile devices, including blog posts. As bloggers we know that content is king. We also spend a bit lots of time fiddling with the format, font, color, and a ton of other design features to enhance readability and make the experience for our visitors pleasant and efficient. Unfortunately all of that formatting doesn’t translate [...]
