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  • 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.

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    A Completely Non-Scientific View of Mental Health Stigma in the Workplace

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 4 minutes

    A little over a week ago, I came clean on my other blog, and social media. I admitted that I’m just really not OK.

    If you’ve read the post, then you also know that when I mention mental health stigma, I’m not really talking about what happened with my workplace. No, that was exactly what I would want to happen. But, what I noticed was what happened kind of out in public, after the fact.

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    Social Networks Start Shutting Down Right-Wing Accounts, Are they Right?

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

    Let me make a distinction here, between what the “right” thing to do for a social media company would be, and what they are within their rights to do. I am on record as saying I am for more free speech, almost always. Because I want stupid, dangerous people to be as public as they…

  • Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 3, 2021

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Working all the time isn’t the same thing as productivity

    Section 230: everything you need to know about the law protecting internet speech

    Will Remote Work Be the End of the 40-Hour Week?

    Here We Go Again? A Running Listing of eDiscovery Events in 2021

    The most important blog post

    Ways to build business relationships remotely

    16 Ideas to Implement in Your Professional and Personal Relationships in 2021

    Further Lessons in NOT Producing Discovery as PDFs

    6 ways tech can combat loneliness and boost mental health during the holidays

    iOS Privacy Changes Won’t Harm Small Businesses, Despite Facebook’s Claims

    You May See More PTSD Symptoms In Your Employees

  • Linked: Amplify possibility

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Seth has some keen insight into the way social media works, and I think these paragraphs are spot on, and also something we, as users of social media, need to remind ourselves of daily:

    “And so the social networks created a game, a game in which you ‘win’ by being notorious, outrageous or, as they coined the phrase, “authentic.” The whole world is watching, if you’re willing to put on a show.

    That’s not how the world actually works. The successful people in your community or your industry (please substitute ‘happy’ for successful in that sentence) don’t act the way the influencers on Twitter, YouTube or Facebook do. That’s all invented, amplified stagecraft, it’s not the actual human condition.”