I'm going to try something new here. Actually for those who have used the online service now known as Delicious by Yahoo or seen Dennis Kennedy's experiments with microblogging, it might seem old school (well, old INTERNET school anyway.) Here's my "problem." Due to Twitter and other resources I have cultivated, I come across
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The Dark Side of Technology
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I'm one of those who believes that almost every lawyer in private practice should have a smart phone. There are simply too many time-saving tools and techniques available via a smart phone that can be useful to the time-challenged lawyer. But I'm not unmindful of the dangers of overuse of smart phones and other technology.
NYT: 10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Technology
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I want to direct your attention to an extremely useful article, 10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Technology from the New York Times. These ten things are more related to personal and home use of technology. I wish I had written this article because I really like the way it gives one…
Websites for the New Year
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Websites for the New Year was the theme that Courtney Kennaday and I picked for our Sites for Sore Eyes Column in the December, 2010 GPSolo Magazine. The format is "I resolve to…" and we featured some sites and safe surfing practices that take a little investment of time to set up. But there are…
Super-charge your Conference Calls
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Conference calls (or teleconferencing, to be more modern) are a part of the lives of most business people and most lawyers. It is often easier to work something out with three or four people on one call than to use e-mails or individual calls. I think conference calls will be with us for some time.…
Pizza and Online Document Repositories
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Let's discuss a really powerful free tool that you may not yet be using. I hope this blog post will convince you that you need to set up a free online document repository.
I have been finding many interesting uses for Dropbox and have encouraged others to sign up. Dropbox offers 2 GB of…
Oklahoma Bar Journal Gives You Great Collection of Legal Technology Articles
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The November 2010 Oklahoma Bar Journal has a Law Office Management and Technology theme and we're happy to share them with you whether you are a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association or not. So pass along this link to someone you think might be interested and settle in for a lengthy session if you…
Do You Have an Appetite for Apps?
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Courtney Kennaday loves her Droid HTC Incredible. I still like my iPhone. In our Sites for Sore Eyes column this month, Do You Have an Appetite for Apps?, we discuss a select few of our favorite apps for our respective phones. New apps hit the apps stores every day it seems and these are…
How to…….. From GPSolo Magazine
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Words rarely fail me, but I cannot say enough good things about the July/August 2010 ABA GPSolo Magazine with a theme of "How To." Every lawyer should look over this edition of the magazine and all of the articles are online right here. Even though the publication is targeted at small firm lawyers, there…
Five Best Personal Project Management Tools
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A phrase that is being used a lot these days is Legal Project Management. I think we are going to hear much more about this concept in the next year or two. Examining the component parts of legal projects is not something many firms have done exhaustively, mainly because the team is focusing on getting the…