What I’m Sharing (weekly)

What I’m Sharing (weekly)

This is how hackers make money from your stolen medical data 4 Ways Spoliation Can Derail Your Litigation Strategy Small Firms Keep Ignoring eDiscovery To Their Peril Interview: Julia Helmer of Consilio on managing mobile data Block.One’s New Social Media Site Will Do Identity Checks for Every User – the future of social media? Mozilla…

Linked: Women Did Everything Right. Then Work Got ‘Greedy.’
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Linked: Women Did Everything Right. Then Work Got ‘Greedy.’

There are a lot of conversations about the pay gap, and how much of that is gender bias, and how much of it is because of women’s choices. I think this article, and the study it is about, can help us understand the true culprit, long hours. In the end, until we get a handle…

Networking Effectively May Not Look the Same For Everyone

Networking Effectively May Not Look the Same For Everyone

In case you haven’t seen it, there was an article making the rounds recently entitled For Women Job Seekers, Networking Like a Man Isn’t Enough. It involved a study that showed that men are generally successful networking a certain way, and building a certain kind of network, but for women, something else was required: What…

Freakonomics Podcast on Open Offices

Freakonomics Podcast on Open Offices

The recent episode of Freakonomics covering the open office is really interesting. You should absolutely check it out in it’s entirety. There were two things that I wanted to mention specifically. (Not to mention the studies that show how less often people in open offices actually talk to one another, or how much more productive…

Linked – Why Great Employees Leave “Great Cultures”
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Linked – Why Great Employees Leave “Great Cultures”

I suppose, at this point in my life, that it should never surprise me that organizations that espouse their “great culture”, often fall short of those claims in the day-to-day operations. I’ve seen this, and many, many more examples. “These gaps can take many forms. A company might espouse “work-life balance” but not offer paid…