I didn’t do a lot of posting to my blog in 2016, so I thought I’d do a 2016 wrap-up post to point you to the writing and other work I published in other places.
Continue Reading Wrapping Up 2016 at DennisKennedy.Blog – More Content Than I Expected
Six Ways to Jump Start Your LinkedIn Network (New Article)
Allison Shields and I were talking the other day about LinkedIn and whether it was time to write a new edition of our book, LinkedIn in One Hour for Lawyers. Whether or not it’s time for a new edition, it became clear that we (meaning especially me) were not ready to write it.
However, we did have some ideas for a new article about ways to improve how you add connections on LinkedIn. In it, we would share some new ideas and experiments we had been doing in that area. We decided to write that article and turn it into a bit of a science experiment as well.Continue Reading Six Ways to Jump Start Your LinkedIn Network (New Article)
Quarterly Personal Offsite Meetings
I recently read Greg McKeown‘s excellent book called Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. Lots of good ideas in the book, but the one that has stuck with me is the “quarterly personal offsite meeting.” I’ve also heard this idea mentioned in other blog posts and podcasts.
Count me in.Continue Reading Quarterly Personal Offsite Meetings
Tech/Life Balance and Other Law Technology Today Roundtables
One of my favorite writing outlets these days is the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center’s Law Technology Today blog
. I’m a regular participant in a series of monthly roundtable discussions by LTRC board members on technology topics.
Today, the latest of these was posted and it’s called “Finding a Work Life Balance Through Technology.”Continue Reading Tech/Life Balance and Other Law Technology Today Roundtables
LTRC's Women of Legal Tech – 2016
I’m excited to point readers to the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center’s 2016 Women of Legal Tech list.
As the announcement says:
One of the American Bar Association’s core values is a commitment to diversity, which the Law Practice Division aims to reinforce in the legal tech sector. This year, approximately 30% of the
LTRC’s Women of Legal Tech – 2016
I’m excited to point readers to the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center’s 2016 Women of Legal Tech list.
As the announcement says:
One of the American Bar Association’s core values is a commitment to diversity, which the Law Practice Division aims to reinforce in the legal tech sector. This year, approximately 30% of the
DennisKennedy.Blog Celebrates Thirteenth Birthday
Long-time readers of this blog will know that today is the blawgiversary of DennisKennedy.Blog. I started this blog on February 15, 2003, and we (my blog and me) are marking its thirteenth birthday today. That makes DennisKennedy.Blog a teenager. Much more about that in a minute.
In previous years, I marked the week of
ABA TECHREPORT, New Roundtable and New Podcasts
The 2015 ABA TECHREPORT is out. 
The TECHREPORT is a set of free articles where the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center has legal technology expert analyze and summarize data from the 2015 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report.
I chipped in with an article on cloud computing survey results. The highlights:
Law
52 Books in 52 Weeks – 2016
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. And it gives me a good reading target to shoot for.
Last year, I
Are There Really Too Many Lawyers?
Last summer, I was asked the question “Are there really too many lawyers?” I wrote a reply and remembered the other day that I never posted it.
Unlike when you write something for a print publication and might have to wait months for an article to appear, the great benefit of having your own blog