Posted in Collaboration on Feb 14th, 2013
We all know that person who constantly sends emails that lack a subject line. Or who sends rambling, lengthy emails that don’t seem to have a point. And there are those who send emails with open ended questions that require a game of email ping pong. You would never do any of those things – [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Gmail, Google on Feb 11th, 2013
There’s plenty to take advantage of in the free Google Calendar—features like creating and sharing multiple calendars, “quick add” smart appointments and the ability to make calendars public. In this article I dig in to unearth a few neat tricks to integrate your Calendar more tightly with Gmail and Tasks. With some exploring and clicking, you [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Collaboration, iPad, Mobile on Oct 16th, 2012
The iPad is quickly becoming a “must-have” for every lawyer. It’s more than a Smartphone but not quite a laptop…it’s more like an “electronic legal pad.” Lawyers are finding the iPad to be the perfect tool for reading books, annotating documents, taking notes, catching-up on news, surfing the Web, giving presentations, and a myriad of [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Legal Project Management, Mobile on Oct 9th, 2012
My new article in Attorney at Work: Asana vs. Trello: Checklist Collaboration Tools Compared In his book The Checklist Manifesto, surgeon Atul Gawande asserts that checklists are a “cognitive net,” a mechanism that can help prevent experienced people from making errors due to flawed memory and attention, and ensure that teams work together. Or, as Steven Levitt of Freakonomics fame put it, “the [...]
Posted in Collaboration, Legal Research on Aug 21st, 2012
Recently Mashable posted an article on 8 Google Chrome Extensions to Boost Your Productivity. While many were useful, the one that stood out to me was the “Tab Packager” Tab.bz. This Google Chrome extension allows you to create a short URL that captures all the open browser tabs in Google. Opening the short URL then [...]
