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Monday, August 24th, 2009
The annual conference for ILTA has begun. I've seen two sessions so far.
The first was Greening the Law Office: Why It Makes Cents, presented by Joan Krajewski of Microsoft. Joan had some interesting statistics regarding the costs of business behaviors, and ways to reduce the corporate carbon footprint. ...
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
A colleage referred me to a recent article in CFO Magazine titled, Live and Learn - Companies get better at using technology to use training dollars more efficiently.
The short article highlights that while training budgets are decreasing in most businesses, learning opportunities do not have to be sacrificed. In fact, ...
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
This isn't related to legal learning, but there's an important lesson here.
Last week I joined a team from my office to migrate one of our remote offices to new systems. As we left the restaurant after dinner one night, a team member noticed that her Blackberry was missing. "I just ...
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Whether or not your firm is an ILTA member, you really should take advantage of the materials they offer. Of particular value are the webinar recordings. You'll find them on the archives page of their site.
I'll highlight a couple of recent recordings. First, Jenn Steele presented on ILTA Social Networking: ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
ILTA's latest issue of Peer to Peer Magazine is out (and online). The issue theme is Green Initiatives, and includes a great article called The New Classroom, written by Gina Buser of Traveling Coaches.
Gina reiterates what we've said here as well, that good training product is already green.
"One option ...
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Ted Banks, former chief counsel for global compliance at Kraft Foods, vented his spleen in a recent Law.com article, What Steams Me About Technology. I like to hear what lawyers think about legal IT. I don't know Mr. Banks, but I hear echoes of his pet peeves in comments by ...
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
I joined the Twitter ranks last summer. The micro-blog site experienced explosive growth in 2008, which continues today.
As a legal learning professional, I've discovered colleagues in my field, as well as several other legal experts who inform me about the industry. Do they all relate to my training role? No, ...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
A partner called, asking for assistance setting up a web conference with a client. It was Thursday, and his meeting was the next Tuesday. I know what you're thinking: A partner called 4 business days before a meeting to set it up? Really?
But it's true, and we commended him for ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
I had the privilege of presenting in webinar form one of the sessions I gave at the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) conference last August. This session was in the Professional Development track.
I was a little worried about how it would translate from an interactive, live presentation to a unidirectional ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
An article by Lynn Traverse on Law.com got a lot of hits on the interweb. She offers strong advice to law students about what you post about yourself online.
Every professional should heed the advice, however.
Advice to Fall Recruits: Keep Your Cyberspace Clean
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