Author: Mike McBride

  • Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 7 2021

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    For U.S. businesses, less data is more than ever

    The Future Of Mental Health And Career Support For Remote Workers

    No, Getting Rid Of Anonymity Will Not Fix Social Media; It Will Cause More Problems

    I cannot stress this enough, getting rid of anonymity does nothing to stop harassing (look at Facebook?), and only hurts already marginalized people.

    eDiscovery Tug of War: A Breakdown of the In-House vs. ALSP Debate, Part Two

    Defensible Deletion: The Proof Is in the Planning

    Microsoft launches Microsoft 365 for Legal

    How to ensure mental wellbeing policies genuinely work for employees

    The ethical quandary of being a social media manager in 2021

    Strong stuff from Tim Cook

    “What are the consequences of seeing thousands of users joining extremist groups and then perpetuating an algorithm that recommends even more?”

    New ESI Sanctions Order Offers E-Discovery 101 Course for Lawyers

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    Linked: How to Use RSS Feeds to Boost Your Productivity

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    RSS is not gone, quite the opposite. Most people, however, don’t use RSS subscriptions like they did in the old Google Reader days, but RSS is running underneath a whole lot of stuff that we all use every day.

    But, I also want to point out that there are a TON of good reasons to use an RSS reader now. Maybe more than there were when Google still had one. As it is, we’ve sort of grown into this habit of letting social media inform us. If there’s some topic we want to know about, we’ll follow some accounts and let the algorithm decide for us what we need to see.

    Look how well that’s working out.

  • Linked: Strategy and tactics and Powerpoint

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I think many a public speaker would do well to remember Seth’s questions here about using a tool like PowerPoint: “Overall question: Who is this presentation for? And the follow-up: What change are we seeking to make? If you’re not trying to cause an action or some other change in attitude or belief, then what’s…

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    Linked: Dead Employee’s Account Used in Ransomware Attack

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    One mistake, followed by another mistake, and before you know it, you’re in ransomware hell. “The account of the late employee wasn’t shut down because various internal services had been configured to use it, presumably because the deceased had been involved in setting up those services. If they had closed the account, it would have…

  • Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 31 2021

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Breaking the Taboo – What I Learned from Talking about Mental Health in the Workplace

    Why mental health at the workplace should be the priority in 2021 and beyond

    The Admissibility of Social Media Evidence of Insurrection

    The Easy Way to Backup Gmail

    Dozens Of Human Rights Group Tell Congress: Do Not Gut Section 230 On Our Behalf; It’ll Do More Harm Than Good

    The curious case of pivot table caches in eDiscovery

    What’s Wrong with the Way We Work

    Ten Things Law Firms Can Do to Prevent Being Blown Up by Ransomware

    Five Great Reads on eDiscovery for January 2021

    Why the five-day workweek is outdated for working from home

    Building a Network: 4 Ways to Add Value By Helping Others Succeed

    How to Support an Employee with a Chronic Health Condition

  • What Do People Need to be Successful Working From Home? – It Varies

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 4 minutes

    Why it’s almost as if we should ask individuals what would help them, and within reason, provide that. After all, even within each age group, parents might prioritize something different than single employees, or those sharing an internet connection and space with a spouse or roommates also working from home might prioritize something else. Some may want to adhere to strict 9-5 hours so that they can spend the rest of their time on childcare or side-businesses, while others may value the ability to take a couple of hours during the day for schoolwork and then pick up work again in the evening.

    We would do well to listen to what people need, talk about what we expect, and also understand what we are doing with our own actions.