According to the AJC, Small perks carry weight around the office. That got me thinking about what I hear from friends and acquaintances about their workplace, and how they’ve handled the current economic recession. In the midst of budget cuts, it’s important to find ways to show your employees that you value them. It seems…
I first saw a mention of Synchredible 3.0 on the Lockergnome site last week, and was intrigued by it almost immediately, due to the fact that you could run it on a schedule, even in the free version. None of the current tools I’ve been using to sync certain folders to my thumb drive, or…
I did finally decide on using Buddypress to roll my own social network to replace the Child Abuse Survivors Network that is currently on Ning. I’ve been spending quite a bit of my free time this week installing it, testing it, adding plugins, testing some more, fixing issues, removing plugins that weren’t working, and just…
I’ve been doing a bunch of demo’s of Trial Director around the firm lately, and getting some pretty decent response from the folks who see it. The demo’s do prove a couple of things to me though, especially as compared to Summation demo’s I’ve done for these same people. 1. You can’t possibly know how…
I’m sure many of you have seen the announcement that Ning will be closing down the free side of their social network platform. The news hit me personally, as I have been using Ning to host a social network for child abuse survivors. One of the biggest reasons I choose that platform, as opposed to…
I was reminded of something I was thinking after that Jeffrey Ritter webinar last week this morning when I stumbled across this post by Jason Plant, Generation Y trainees about to shake up Legal and Legal IT. Specifically it was this quote from Jason that I found interesting. The struggle of getting the old lawyers…