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May 05, 2008

Dennis Kennedy's Links of the Week - May 4, 2008

In this week's episode:

The Links

How to print a list of files in a Windows directory

Kindle update (minor problems, amazing realization)

Report: In Emergencies, People Turn to Facebook

The toys of today, the tools of tomorrow

McKinsey Surveys the New Software Landscape

A guide to registering the copyright in your blog

SaaS is a no brainer!

Monk Gets a New Psychiatrist

ReviewGist Lets You Know if it's Worth Buying

Developing Adaptability through Physical Training

Make your screen shots super

The Pending SMS Collapse

Picking a license for an open source software project

Tweet Scan As Brand Protection Tool

The view from the client’s side

TechShop

What of our unshrinking world?

I Do Love You, Lee, But ...

Once Upon a Time, I Lived on a Kibbutz

Moleskine Notebooks: The Ultimate Guide

Cloud Computing Forecast

The legal talent matrix

Is Office the new Netscape?

I Bond rates go to zero

More on blogging vs. micro-blogging (Note: You can follow me on Twitter here)

The Right Resources to Solve Legal Problems

JOURNAL: Searching for Assumption Errors

The Four Day Work Week: Sixteen Reasons Why This Might Be an Idea Whose Time Has Come

Who Will Use Google App Engine?

100 Most Often Mispronounced Words

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This Week's Additions to 52 Books in 52 Weeks:

Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler

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

Now Available! The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together, by Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell. Join the book's Facebook Group here.

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April 27, 2008

Using Word 2007 and Google Docs to Collaborate on Documents

Tom Mighell and I thought that the subject of collaborating on documents was so important that we devoted an entire section, with several chapters, to it in our new book, The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together.

I noted two good articles recently that give a good introduction to topics we cover in detail in our book.

The first Is Brian Zeve's article "Smarter, Faster Ways for Law Firms to Create and Share Documents" in the latest issue of Law Practice Today (many other good articles in this issue, too). Zeve highlights some of the collaboration features in Word 2007. You will want to familiarize yourself with these features if you will be moving to Word 2007 this year or are noticing that Word 2003 is now 5 years old and you want to put together good reasons to push your organization to Word 2007. The article also links to a Microsoft white paper on Word 2007 for the legal community.

The second is "Google Docs Lives to Share the Words." We not only used Google Docs as a prime example of a document collaboration tool in our book, but we also used it to collaborate on writing the book. The article summarizes the way Google Docs is built for a connected environment.

There is nothing more fundamental to the work of lawyers today than working together on documents and no more necessary skill-set than document collaboration skills. Understanding the available tools is essential. These two articles do a nice job of introducing some of the key tools and taking some first steps. When you are ready to go further, our book will be waiting for you.

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

Now Available! The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together, by Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell. Join the book's Facebook Group here.

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Dennis Kennedy's Links of the Week - April 27, 2008

In this week's episode:

The Links

The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Spam Turns 30

Secretary of Defense Honors John Boyd-The How To?

This Thing About Default Margins

Code, Law, and Spontaneous Order

The world changed last week, with no headlines to mark the news

Lawyers, Law Students and Facebook

Notes on "Evaluating SharePoint from a Business Perspective"

Death of social networking for lawyers is greatly exaggerated

5 Ideas to Come Up with Blog Content from Your Daily Life

Taking Mashups Deeper into the Enterprise

Kindle - preliminary review

Kai-Fu Lee on Cloud Computing

How to Leave the Perfect Voicemail

Towards diversity in law firms

Who Aren't You

Hollow States and Foreclosure

Negotiating from a Position of Weakness

Web 2.0: Time to Tackle BIG CHALLENGES

Duplicate data: the bane of cloud computing?

When People Don't Want to Change

10 Things To Do Before Your Speech That Will Take The Nervousness Out Of You

The Reality of Depending on True Fans

Prices at the Gas Pump 'Round the World

Do today's new collaboration tools make it harder for IT to wrangle corporate information, or easier?

Easy Ways to Go Green with Your Computer

Smarter, Faster Ways for Law Firms to Create and Share Documents

Google Docs Lives to Share the Words

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This Week's Additions to 52 Books in 52 Weeks:

The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler

The Rolling Stone Interviews, by Jann Wenner and Joe Levy

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

Now Available! The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together, by Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell. Join the book's Facebook Group here.

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April 23, 2008

Happy 4th Anniversary Wishes to Kevin O'Keefe and LexBlog

I enjoyed reading Kevin O'Keefe's post tonight marking the fourth anniversary of LexBlog.

Kevin has done so much to bring blogging to lawyers and I've enjoyed watching the steps he's taken all along the way.

In fact, one of my favorite memories from the early days of lawyer blogging involves Kevin. I had known Kevin for a while and always admired what he did with his Prairielaw site.

In the early days of LexBlog (and Kevin's blogging), Kevin got in touch with me to talk about blogging and what he was working on. I remember that we finally got the chance to talk on the phone during a layover I had in the Kansas City airport over a terrible cell phone connection. I ended up talking with Kevin until the last possible minute before my flight. I really liked Kevin's ideas, his plan, and the clarity of his vision for bringing blogging to lawyers. I must admit that he was much more of an optimist than I was. He's definitely transformed the world of lawyer blogging in great ways.

As Kevin says in his post . . . to the next four years.

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

Now Available! The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together, by Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell. Join the book's Facebook Group here.

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