This Week’s Links (weekly)

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

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This is cool if you have no other choice. Personally, I hook up Outlook to sync with gmail and export everything to a PST as my backup, which is a whole lot easier to deal with than having a single text file for every email, but if you don’t have anything else to create an…

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Linked – The Public Speaking Technique That Everyone Should Be Using

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“The powerful speech pause might be the most important public speaking technique you will ever learn. This secret is something that I’ve used for many years. Dramatic pauses are so powerful that they should be illegal. In music, all of the beauty is contained in the silences between the notes. In speaking, the drama and…

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Linked: Study Finds Productivity Not Deterred by Shift to Remote Work

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Note the reality of giving employees flexibility: “”Workers have proven themselves more than capable of handling flexible work options during a crisis,” Weiler Reynolds said. “Companies should continue to foster the sense of freedom and control that flexible work options provide and build strong flexible work programs. These programs are a smart way for companies…

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Not Billable Hour, Not Per-Gig, Then What?

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I’ve seen some news, and cheering, recently suggesting that per-gig pricing as part of the ediscovery process is dead. If you read that post from AccessData, and follow the links, I think you’ll see a pretty good case for why a per-gig pricing model is problematic, but the one thing you won’t see is what…

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eDiscovery is Killing Us All

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I saw a post by Jon Canty recently that talked about what working in eDiscovery is like, complete with photos of himself working on his laptop everywhere, at the drop of a hat. Here’s a humbling story from my first year in ediscovery. It was my day off and I was in the doctor’s office….

Linked – 5 Quick Sites That Let You Check if Links Are Safe
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Linked – 5 Quick Sites That Let You Check if Links Are Safe

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One of my biggest concerns about link-shorteners has always been that the receiver has no way of knowing where the link takes them until the click it. That might be OK with people you know and trust on social media and email, but that’s only a small portion of the things that we are asked…

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