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    What I’m Sharing (weekly) Sept. 6, 2020

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    There’s No Better Time To Future-Proof Your Firm Than Now

    6 steps to creating a workplace mental health & well-being strategy

    How To Cope At Work When Anxiety And Depression Take Over

    Why Your Staff Are Your Cybersecurity Weak Link

    Worried About the Election? Microsoft Launches Deepfake Detection Tool

    Working from Home and Boundaries in 2020

    4 Ways To Destigmatize Mental Health At Work

    At ILTA>ON, Reconnecting Community Through A Virtual Conference

    Why the Connection Between Biometric Data and eDiscovery Will Continue to Grow

    Business comment: Tackling the stigma of workplace mental health

    8 skills for career success in the digital age

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    Linked: Hackers are exploiting a critical flaw affecting >350,000 WordPress sites

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    If you use this plugin, or really any plugin, keep ’em up to date! “Hackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability that allows them to execute commands and malicious scripts on Websites running File Manager, a WordPress plugin with more than 700,000 active installations, researchers said on Tuesday. Word of the attacks came a few hours…

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    What I’m Sharing (weekly) August 30, 2020

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Legal Tech Trends to Watch Your office will never be normal again See What We Have Planned for Relativity Fest 2020 4 Tips for Counseling a Struggling Remote Employee ILTA>ON 2020 Delivers an Inspiring Conference, Emphasizing the Positive Want a Job in Legal Technology? Your Answer is Increasingly at ALSPs Meet the Star Witness: Your…

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    Linked: The Lonely, Pixelated Hell of Networking During the Pandemic

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Most of these sound awful, and the ones that are “not so voluntary” attempts to make sure workers are engaged sound even worse.

    Actually, I suspect they are doing a lot more harm to engagement than good.

    There are ways to network during this time. They’re different, they’re a little more work, and they take some getting used to. But they don’t need to be ridiculous, and they definitely don’t need to be forced.

    In fact, this is a great time to simply send someone a note asking for 15-30 minutes of their time. Most of us are pretty open to doing exactly that with coworkers or peers in our industry. I’d be happy to find some time to have a conversation with you about my industry, or mental health, or blogging. Or even to just have a coffee or beer with virtually. We don’t even need to be on our webcams if you don’t want.

    See, isn’t that better than having 50 people on mute while the CEO talks, or getting randomly matched with coworkers?

    Ugh, the introvert in me shudders to think about some of these. Please, don’t. Just ask someone to get a coffee like we used to.

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    Linked: As workspace usage of Slack and Microsoft Teams soars, lawyers see an uptick in harassment claims

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    I guess I could see this happening. Teams or Slack chats are real-time, people feeling angry might be tempted to voice their unfiltered opinions on them, much like we see on Twitter, etc. “If workers don’t feel they have a voice on serious issues, resentment can build, turning channels ugly. At the end of the…

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    What I’m Sharing (weekly)

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Google Has a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree?This is pretty interesting, could work, if we can get orgs to see it as “qualified”. Would open a ton of doors.
    Toward a Zoom agreement?”The purpose of a meeting is not to fill the allocated slot on the Google calendar invite. The purpose is to communicate an idea and the emotions that go with it, and to find out what’s missing via engaged conversation. If we can’t do that, let’s not meet.”
    Report: AI Company Leaks Over 2.5M Medical Records
    The Intersection of E-Discovery and Cybersecurity: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
    Think You Don’t Need to Preserve Slack Data for Discovery? Think Again
    There is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch in Legal Tech
    Non-Lawyer Ownership Doesn’t Guarantee More A2J?The $$ barrier to entry for someone to even be a lawyer guarantees legal services will always be expensive. #A2J will require systemic changes.
    5 Best Password Managers of 2020
    Surveys Show Technology Is The Key To Law Firm Success During COVID-19 And Beyond
    Minimize The Risk of Data Loss From Departing Employees With These Simple Checklists