Dennis Kennedy

January 31, 2010

Recent Microblog Posts - January 31, 2010

Here's the latest collection of posts from DennisKennedy.Microblog, which is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.

Here are recent posts from the microblog:

Adam Singer on "Workforce Darwinism" - 70% of surveyed US HR pros have rejected candidate due to online reputation info http://bit.ly/dpS8R8

Kevin Meyer: Swimming Through the Information Clutter - http://bit.ly/cB0cpS - impact of information flow on leadership

Fraser Speirs: "What you're seeing in the industry's reaction to the iPad is nothing less than future shock." http://bit.ly/bYQSsk

Rex Hammock: "When it comes to the future, you have two choices" http://bit.ly/boWlTN - watching no longer an option

Adam Thierer: Some Amazing Numbers Re: Growth of Net & Social Media - http://bit.ly/7oGMNR Amazing, indeed.

Dave Winer: What happens to our blogs when we are gone? http://bit.ly/8EGVHt [I'm working on article on related topic.]

RT @InsideLegal: Pamela McDevitt has been named the new director for the ABA LPM Section. http://bit.ly/84J0Bt

Steve Nipper's Law Blogs 101: http://idaholawreport.com/?p=258

RT @TomMighell: Our latest Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast: From Early Adopters to Late Adopters and Everyone In Between http://is.gd/6C5Oj

RT @collabtools: Jack Vinson on Jordan Frank and the "Responsibility to collaborate" - http://bit.ly/61slWP

Renee Blodgett: Constant Builds Brands, Passion Builds the Long Tail - http://bit.ly/4nwEW5 - flipping the 80/20 rule

Steve Barth revisits his ground-breaking article on Personal KM: http://bit.ly/4ADy6a; inspired my article: http://bit.ly/6oDAhf

RT @JavaSTL: Help Twitter: I'm looking for 2 local STL lawyers (ideally corporate counsel) actively involved in social media.

Mary Abraham on the value of checklists - http://bit.ly/5cKJqO - why professionals are reluctant to use checklists

JP Rangaswami on the Facebookisation of the enterprise - http://bit.ly/7vNQKD - rethinking IT departments

Mary Abraham: How Failure Leads to Epiphany - http://bit.ly/7Fd62s - "no substitute for constant experimentation"

Marty Schwimmer on "High Security Zones" for Internet commerce safety and "comfort" - http://bit.ly/6QdFvd [Great ideas]

Nick Morgan on the future of conferences - http://bit.ly/5ABbd1; http://bit.ly/6Sghmh

Rex Hammock: "'The channel' is what matters. The gizmo is secondary." - http://bit.ly/83KKVD

Bob Lefsetz; "What the customer wants" - http://bit.ly/5M5bYr - "The consumer wants music." Ideas apply elsewehere, too.

RT @ronfriedmann: David Maister retires http://bit.ly/5nJzdA || An important voice in professional services and great presenter.

New Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast - Looking Forward: Legal Tech in 2010 - http://bit.ly/4yoCnQ

RT @econwriter5: Pleased with my Texas Bar Journal article on Open Source for Lawyers (PDF link): http://tinyurl.com/y939szm

Check out the latest episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report Podcast on the Legal Talk Network - From Early Adopters to Late Adopters and Everyone In Between http://is.gd/6C5Oj

[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]

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January 18, 2010

MLK Holiday - 2010

I have a tradition on this blog of writing a post on celebrating the Martin Luther King holiday (here, here, here (especially) and here). The holiday is special to me for a number of reasons that I go into in the earlier posts on the topic and it's one of my favorite holidays of the year.

I enjoy reading blog posts and other materials posted on the holiday, and today is no exception.

I especially liked Curt Rosengren's Martin Luther King Day: 4 steps to making it personal.

The money quote:

This year, instead of just thinking, "Whoo-hoo! I have the day off," or "Hey, there's a sale at the mall," spend some time exploring one simple question. "What could this day mean to me?" You can do this with any special day, but since today is MLK Day, that's a good place to start.

Curt's four steps:

1. Explore what it means to you.

2. How does this relate to my life?

3. What action does this suggest?

4. What is the first step, and when will I take it?

A great exercise.

[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]

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Now Available! The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together, by Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell. Visit the companion website for the book at LawyersGuidetoCollaboration.com. Twitter: @collabtools

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January 16, 2010

52 Books in 52 Weeks - 2010

For the last few years, I've enjoyed reading the posts of several bloggers who are trying to read 52 books in 52 weeks. I've also wanted to find a good way for me to keep track of the books I've read.

Last year, I decided to try to do the 52 books in 52 weeks meme (and encourage others to do so). I made it to 63, which seemed pretty good. Here's the post with the 2009 list.

I'm doing the same thing in 2010. My approach is the same as last year - I'll simply update this specific post from time to time throughout the year as I finish books.

December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

8. Unclutter Your Life in One Week, Erin Doland

7. The Guide for Inclusive Leaders, Joerg Scmitz and Nancy Curl

6.Can You Hear Me Now?, Kate Peters

5. Just Kids, Patti Smith

4. Freedom, Daniel Suarez

3. Trust Agents, Chris Brogan and Julien Smith

2. Vicious Circles, Otto Penzler

1. Whole Earth Discipline, Stewart Brand

[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]

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Now Available! The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together, by Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell. Visit the companion website for the book at LawyersGuidetoCollaboration.com. Twitter: @collabtools

Listen to The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast on Legal Talk Network. Twitter: @tkmreport

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January 05, 2010

Looking Forward: Legal Technology in 2010

Tom Mighell and I have recorded another episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast and it's now available on the Legal Talk Network and on iTunes, with an RSS feed here. The episode is called "Looking Forward: Legal Technology in 2010" (show notes here), and it's sponsored by Bill4Time. A special thank you to readers of this blog who listen to the podcast - we're very pleased with the growing numbers of downloads the podcast is getting.

Here's the episode description:

In part two of this two-part series on legal technology trends, co-hosts Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell peer into the crystal ball to find the key trends and storylines to expect in legal technology in 2010. Will the economy keep a lid on significant developments? What role will Internet and mobile technologies play? What should lawyers, law firms and other legal organizations be putting into their strategic technology plans? In addition, Dennis and Tom make predictions about technology in general and legal technology in particular.

Tom and I boldly look into the crystal ball to highlight some key trends for 2010. It's a wide-ranging conversation that covers the continuing role of the current economic situation on technology decisions, cloud computing and mobile technologies, real-time tech, the maturation of social media, and WIndows 7 and Office 2010.

[By the way, despite what I've read recently on blogs and in Twitter, Dennis Kennedy definitely does NOT believe that Windows 7 will bomb in law firms. I'll probably need to set the record straight in a blog post soon. In the meantime, you might listen to our earlier podcast on Windows 7 to get my perspectives on Windows 7. I'm also working on my annual legal tech trends article.]

In our audience questions segment (we always welcome your questions for any podcast), we made a few quick predictions in couple of legal tech areas. We didn't discuss our individual predictions in advance and I was able to catch Tom off-guard with some of my predictions.

We end the podcast with our Parting Shots - practical tips you can use right away. Tom raves about LogMeIn Express, a simple screensharing application that can be used for collaboration and other things. I point people to the new iPhone App from Dragon that lets you do speech recognition through an iPhone or iPod Touch nicely illustrates the mobile and cloud computing trends we discuss in the podcast.

Give our new episode a listen and let me know what you think. Show notes for the podcast are at here.

And try some of the back episodes as well.

THE KENNEDY-MIGHELL REPORT PODCAST IS NOW ON TWITTER. You can now follow the podcast on Twitter at @tkmreport.

Just a note about the experiment we want to try with a public "wave" for the show we've opened up in Google Wave. If interested in joining the wave, you can either ask us to add you or, assuming you are already a Wave user, search for it in Wave using "with: public" "Kennedy-Mighell Report". Among other things, we'll use it as a way to gather questions for our audience Q&A segments and also use it as an experiment in how Google Wave might be used.

[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]

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Now Available! The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together, by Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell. Visit the companion website for the book at LawyersGuidetoCollaboration.com. Twitter: @collabtools

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January 03, 2010

Recent Microblog Posts - January 4, 2010

Happy New Year and best wishes for 2010!

Here's the latest collection of posts from DennisKennedy.Microblog, which is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.

Here are recent posts from the microblog:

David Allen offers great questions for completing and remember 2009 and creating your 2010 - http://bit.ly/6k8IbZ

Julia Kirby at HBR sets out top management ideas of past decade - http://bit.ly/5lQCBf - coming to your organization soon?

Hey, that's @denniskennedy named in "Friend of the North" category of 2009 Clawbies awards - http://bit.ly/8rsHmM

Bruce MacEwen offers solid insights into the impact of digitalization on the practice of law - http://bit.ly/7gPW2Q

Louis Gray offers a good chronology of Apple Tablet rumors - http://bit.ly/83koL6 - can you remember all of them?

Jeremiah Owyang: "Matrix: Social Technology Adoption Curve Benefits –and Downsides" - http://bit.ly/5OFLhw - useful chart

George Lenard - Law Blogs and How the Online World Has Changed (III and IV) - http://bit.ly/8HeflC; http://bit.ly/4q84vA

Chuck Newton: 10 Trends Lawyers Need To Follow In The New Decade - http://bit.ly/4O3C4s

Scott Ginsberg: 7 Ways to become Your Own Authority Figure Without Using Pepper Spray - http://bit.ly/6aWOAY

Mark Sirkin and Lisa Rohrer on creating urgency for change in the legal profession - http://bit.ly/5xoswM

Dave Winer: Marrying RSS and Twittter - http://bit.ly/79HIfL

Denise Graveline: 2009's great examples of women speakers - http://bit.ly/7Y5XAZ

RT @collabtools: Oliver Marks: A Selection of 2009 Collaboration Posts - http://bit.ly/4D0eXV

Jolie O'Dell: 8 Things Every Geek Needs to Do Before 2010 - http://bit.ly/6uR0o1

Bob Lefsetz - "What used to work, works no more. . . . Don’t fight the future, accept it." - http://bit.ly/4DWyDx

Amit Agarwal: The Best Twitter Apps for your Mobile Phone - http://bit.ly/73uyLq

Mitch Joel: "Blog Secrets Revealed" - http://bit.ly/5sG7jQ - Pay attention to early posts of your favorite bloggers

Sebastien Rupley: USB 3.0’s Ramp-up: Can’t This Happen Faster? http://bit.ly/85LuJo

New on DennisKennedy.Blog: Windows 7 for the Legal Profession - My New ABA Journal Tech Column - http://bit.ly/8MfUWV

Kevin Purdy: Top 10 End-of-Year Office Upgrades (You Can Probably Write Off) - http://bit.ly/8BvkRI

Robin Wauters: 370 Passwords You Shouldn’t (And Can’t) Use On Twitter - http://bit.ly/6ZcmyZ - good lessons here

Henry Blodgett - Amazon Sold More Kindle Books Than Physical Books On Xmas - http://bit.ly/6T4cgV - Kindle book prices to drop?

Richard McManus: Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Structured Data - http://bit.ly/3aVGKF - "Web of Data, not documents"

Yikes! Lifehacker survey has email as "best" collaboration tool. Google Wave close second. http://bit.ly/8GilU6 @collabtools has work to do

New episode of Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast - "Looking Back: Legal Technology in 2009" - http://bit.ly/7d4AQI

The Wired GC debuts Lawriver - http://www.lawriver.com

2009 Blawggie Awards - Congratulations to all winners and runners-up - complete post at http://bit.ly/6CHTC4 #blawggies

Andy Oram's great blog series - "Being online: identity, anonymity, and all things in between" - http://bit.ly/4LDyHz

Check out the latest episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report Podcast on the Legal Talk Network - "Looking Back: Legal Technology in 2009""

[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]

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The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together, by Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell. Visit the companion website for the book at LawyersGuidetoCollaboration.com. Twitter: @collabtools

Listen to The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast on Legal Talk Network. Twitter: @tkmreport

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