Visualizing Document Automation: Five Steps For Success is a free one-hour webinar sponsored by the folks at The Form Tool. It is set for Thursday, July 31st at 10:00 a.m. CDT. I shared this information with a few of my colleagues yesterday and when I began this blog post, I learned that my friend
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Digital Edge Podcast Focuses on Tips and Tricks for PowerPoint
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In this episode of The Digital Edge podcast, Tips and Tricks for Lawyers Using PowerPoint in Trial Presentations, Sharon Nelson and Jim Calloway interview Paul Unger about the best practices in using PowerPoint in the courtroom. Unger emphasizes simplicity, professionalism, and making PowerPoint a tool that reinforces the content rather than providing it. According…
What We Saw at ABA TECHSHOW 2014
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ABA TECHSHOW 2014 was a great event. There were several attendees from Oklahoma this year, so some of us contributed to an article on What We Saw at ABA TECHSHOW 2014 for the Oklahoma Bar Journal. The online version of the article has lots of links to other resources. Oklahoma lawyers who have already completed…
Digital Edge Podcast- The Best of Legal Tech for Solo and Small Firms 2014
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So what is the best legal technology for solo & small firm lawyers? Our Digital Edge podcast attempts to answer part of that question when Sharon Nelson and I interview her husband and co-author John Simek about that topic. Sharon and John, along with Michael C. Maschke, co-authored the 2014 Solo and Small Firm Legal Tech…
The Best of Legal Tech for Solos and Small Firms 2014
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This month's Digital Edge podcast covers "The Best of Legal Tech for Solos and Small Firms 2014."
John Simek is our guest, who is the business partner and spouse of my podcast teammate, Sharon Nelson. Together with Michael C. Maschke, they were the authors of The 2014 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide: Critical…
A Great Free Guide for Utilizing Evernote
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Here's a great explanation of why you need to use Evernote.
"Evernote is software that is a digital extension to your biological memory. Remembering ideas becomes trivial….The intellectual demands on professional life can be overwhelming. Great minds are best deployed to the intractable problems to hand. But life is made up of lots of little
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ABA TECHSHOW 2014 – Interview with The TECHSHOW Chair
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ABA TECHSHOW 2014 was a great success, breaking all of its previous attendance records. Congratulations to ABA TECHSHOW chair Natalie R. Kelly and the rest of the TECHSHOW planning board. For our Digital Edge podcast this month, Sharon Nelson and I interviewed Natalie about her thoughts after the whirlwind experience of the week before. We…
Speech Recognition – It Really, Really Works
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Speech recognition has improved a lot over the years. I can make phone calls from and change the radio station in my car by voice command. The Google Chrome browser can now do voice-activated Google searches by adding an extension available from the Chrome web store.
In my column, Speech Recognition – It Really, Really…
Technolawyer NewsWire Top 25 Products of 2013
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TechnoLawyer has released its Top 25 Products of 2013 Awards. They have an interesting selection method. The TL NewsWire that features new product releases contains links back to the original products web pages. So the most clicks counts as the most votes. That having been said, this method of crowd sourcing has resulted in…
Lawyers, Don’t be an April Fool for Windows XP
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Here's an item for your 2014 calendar. April 1 – Confirm we have no computers using Windows XP in operation at home or work. Now April Fool's Day may seem like a long time off as you read this, but running Windows XP after Microsoft ceases Windows XP support means that you are behaving like a…