Posted in Ethics, How To..., Social Media on May 15th, 2013
During Membership Appreciation Week here at the Chicago Bar Association I put on a program on how to optimize your LinkedIn profile. One question that came up was about the new endorsements of your skills and expertise listings. If you are interested in managing that area of your profile take a look at this short [...]
Posted in How To..., MS Office, Solo Practice on Mar 11th, 2013
“You’ve heard it from just about anywhere technology advice gets spread: Document assembly systems save time, boost productivity, reduce errors—and all while helping to eliminate reinventing the wheel when drafting documents. Sounds fabulous. But are real-life lawyers actually adopting document assembly in their practices? For insights into that—and, better still, tips on how to get the [...]
Posted in How To..., Marketing, Social Media on Oct 10th, 2012
Did you know you can customize the links for your blog, website and other links in your Linkedin profile to say something other than “company website” or “blog”? Here’s how!
Posted in CBA LPMT News, Cloud Computing, Ethics, How To..., Legal Project Management, MS Office, MS Outlook, Social Media, Solo Practice on Aug 20th, 2012
Don’t miss upcoming CLE programs and free training sessions: Coming up in August: How to… Take Control of Social Media with Hootsuite How Lawyers Can Use Collaboration Tools Coming up in September: How to… Use MS OneNote for Project Management How to… Automate Functions in MS Word Smarter, Better, Faster: Document Assembly Coming up in [...]
Posted in CBA LPMT News, Ethics, How To..., MS Office, Trust Accounting on Aug 20th, 2012
New archives available: June 26, 2012: How to… Take Note with Evernote (webcast/materials, training, no CLE) June 28, 2012: Everything You Need To Know About Trust Accounting (But Were Afraid to Ask) (webcast/materials, CLE) July 10, 2012: How to… Control Formatting with MS Word Styles and Templates (webcast/materials, training, no CLE) July 24, 2012: How to… Discover the Benefits of Windows 7 (webcast/materials, [...]
Posted in How To..., Marketing, Mobile, Social Media on Jul 3rd, 2012
Recently LinkedIn announced that due to an updated Twitter policy users can no longer have their tweets automatically appear as updates in LinkedIn. LinkedIn suggests that you update your status in LinkedIn and send it to Twitter, rather than sending tweets to LinkedIn. However, for many, that may not be an optimal workflow. Most lawyers [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Gmail, Google, How To... on Jul 3rd, 2012
A fantastic general tech blog, GroovyPost, just posted a nice step-by-step tutorial on “How to Enable and Set Up Google Docs Offline“. Sometimes you need offline access to files in “the cloud” and it is nice that Google works to make files available locally. In fact, you can access most of Google’s services offline, such [...]
Posted in Adobe Acrobat, CBA LPMT News, How To..., Marketing, MS Office, MS Outlook, Social Media on Jun 20th, 2012
New archives available: May 15, 2012: How to… Use Adobe Acrobat As a Litigation Tool (webcast and slides, training, no CLE) May 24, 2012: Using Technology to Communicate with Clients (webcast/materials, CLE) May 29, 2012: How to… Manage Calendar and Tasks in MS Outlook (webcast/materials, training, no CLE) June 12, 2012: How to… Create a LinkedIn Company Page (webcast/materials, training, no CLE)
Posted in How To..., Marketing, Social Media, Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2012
Did you miss the live “How to… Create LinkedIn Company Pages”? No problem! Watch the short video tutorial below and see the accompanying How to… Create LinkedIn Company Pages slide deck.
Posted in Adobe Acrobat, How To... on Jun 1st, 2012
Learn how to create a transparent custom signature stamp for use in Adobe Acrobat to “sign” electronic documents. For more Acrobat tutorials see the archived programs from the Chicago Bar Association’s How To… series.
