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collaboration

Box.net is professional collaboration at its best

May 29, 2009

Box.net is an on-line, cloud-based, “one-stop” professional collaboration service. Similar to Lawyerist-favorite Dropbox, Box.net enables users to collaborate on projects from across the globe and access files from anywhere in the world.
While Dropbox is an excellent online backup and sharing medium, Box.net offers a service that specifically caters to professionals who collaborate online.

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Acrobat.com Presentations: a future PowerPoint killer?

May 27, 2009

Today, Adobe releases a new collaborative Presentations application for its free online Acrobat.com cloud-based office suite. This new presentation software brings Acrobat.com one step closer to being a full-fledged online replacement for Microsoft Office. Since all of Acrobat.com is still in a beta phase, none of the products are fully developed — and some need [...]

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Make scheduling easy by publishing your calendar

June 25, 2008

A few weeks ago, I started using Google Calendar to publish a free/busy version of my calendar on my website. I am so glad I did.
Scheduling—especially for busy attorneys—can be a royal pain. It often involves several phone calls or e-mails, at least, and it can be much worse when you are trying to schedule [...]

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What I use to manage my practice

April 16, 2008

As most readers of this blog know, I am in a constant search to find the “best” way to manage my practice. As everyone knows, there is no “best” way to manage a law practice, but there is always improvement. So here are the bits of technology and old-school hardware I am using to manage [...]

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Can Zimbra survive a Yahoo-Microsoft merger?

February 5, 2008

Zimbra is a bleeding-edge Web 2.0 project. It is similar to Google Apps, but built with the business and enterprise user in mind. It is also a competitor to Microsoft Exchange, but goes well beyond Exchange’s capabilities.
While there is an open source edition of Zimbra, it was not released under the GNU GPL, but instead [...]

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New time and billing solution: FreshBooks

December 31, 2007

I just came across an impressive–and free!–timekeeping and billing utility, FreshBooks. I gave FreshBooks a test run, and it is pretty smooth. It includes a timer for timing tasks, which is a wonderful feature. And it generates nice invoices that your clients can access online, another nice touch.
The only downside, as with all web apps, [...]

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Another online time and billing solution: Time59

March 16, 2007

Chris Monaghan, the creator of Time59, asked me to review his product. He writes:
It provides time tracking, invoicing and accounts receivable functions. It even handles retainer billing. There is a free 30 day trial. One year of service is only $19.95.
The price is certainly right, especially compared to RTG Bills. From what I can tell, [...]

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RTG Timer and RTG Bills

March 6, 2007

A colleague recently pointed me to RTG Timer and RTG Bills. RTG Timer is an online timekeeping solution that integrates with RTG Bills, a Windows-only billing software. RTG Timer is online, so it is platform-independent. At $95/license, RTB Bills is a pretty hefty price for what looks like a fairly simple piece of software–at least [...]

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Local or remote?

February 21, 2007

I have been peeking at Zimbra lately, a hot networked personal information manager. But instead of being run from your computer, it is run remotely (think Gmail+Google Calendar+Skype, and then some). There are serious advantages to this, starting with platform independence and reduced load on your local system resources. It also has advantages for collaboration, [...]

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