Networking

  • Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 17, 2021

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Spirited ESI Search Arguments

    What’s in a Name (or Hash Value)?

    Ultimate Guide to Mental Health in the Workplace

    Social media managers grapple with burnout, leaving the industry

    Networking Tips for Business Professionals Working Remotely

    Where does the cybersecurity skills gap stem from and what can businesses do to overcome it?

    Client Portals Are Now an Essential Service for Law Firms to Offer

    The New Battles to Come Over Working From Home

    How to Support Your Remote Teams’ Mental Health in 2021 and Beyond

    5 Online Learning Platforms to Help Bolster your Resume

    New Microsoft Teams Features for 2021

  • Shared Links (weekly) Dec. 13, 2020

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Cybersecurity for Attorneys: The Ethics of Incident Response

    Legal Tech Trends from 2020 and How to Prepare for 2021

    New Report Shows Cellphone Encryption Isn’t Really Stopping Cops From Searching Phones

    Small Business: Mental Health Resources During the Pandemic

    The Challenges of Chat in eDiscovery as COVID Brings Changes in Work Behaviour and Working From Home

    3,000 law firms “could be forced to close or merge”

    Your Boss is Your Biggest Cyber-threat, Global Remote Work Survey Finds

    Cybersecurity giant FireEye says its hacking tools were stolen by a nation-state

    How to get your boss to approve the training you want

    The eDiscovery Channel (Blog) Has Become the History Channel

    The Importance Of Authentic Networking

    Here Are 4 Ways You Can Address And Support Employee’s Mental Health

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    Linked: The young and unemployed need better networks

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    So, if you are one of those recent college grads looking for work, I’m going to suggest you work every angle you can find, whether it be with virtual alumni groups or other connections through your educational institution, getting involved in LinkedIn groups or other professional online meeting places, or even, gasp, your parents and their friends. You’re going to need connections to people outside of your peer group to get where you want to go. 

    And, for the rest of us, where was the last time you had a conversation with someone who fits the description above? Don’t you think it’s time to start leading and raising up the next generation of contributors to your field? What can you do to assist with these shrinking networks for the people who need them the most? 

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    What I’m Sharing (weekly) Sept. 13, 202

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    The Perfect Preservation Letter: A New Guide

    Is Flexible Work the New Normal? Survey Says It Is Good For Mental Health

    The coming wave of Covid-related age discrimination lawsuits

    – Employers need to be vigilant in laying off older workers. “High risk for Covid” and “highly compensated” might by proxies for age discrimination.

    Amid COVID-19, people under 30 may finally kill email

    Will lawyers be replaced by GPT-3? Yes, and here’s when

    Fake LinkedIn Accounts – What to Do and What LinkedIn is Doing

    One Ethics Rule Leads to Another: Technology Competence and the Duty of Supervision

    Remote Networking as a Person of Color

    Burnout Of The Remote Employees And How Can They Counter It

    Algorithms are Black Boxes, That is Why We Need Explainable AI

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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.

  • What I’m Sharing (weekly) July 12, 2020

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Ways companies can measure workers’ mental health

    A Professional Recruiter’s Top 5 Insider Tips for Stress-free Networking and Interviewing

    Law Firms Are Seeing Renewed Competition—from Clients
    – “Corporate legal teams, under the gun to cut costs and empowered by powerfully simple technology, are increasingly in-housing work that was once sent to outside counsel.”

    The pandemic is wrecking the typical 9-to-5 workday. Good riddance.

    Be aware of how anxiety affects your job search skills

    No Excuse Not to Use a Password Manager

    Working Through a Personal Crisis

    The Expanding Role and Influence of the Modern Litigation Support or E-Discovery Manager

    The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Side Of AI

    Stop Using 123456 as a Password

    Tell Congress to Vote Yes on Giving Us All Access to Affordable, High-Speed Internet
    – If much of the world moves to #WFH, affordable internet will be the dividing line for who can work, and who cannot.

    Gender Pay Gap Wide Atop In-House Counsel Ladder, May Be Closing

    Exif Data: What is it?