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Glasscubes is a Great Collaboration Platform

January 27, 2010

My co-author, Carolyn Elefant, and I are in the midst of re-writing the last and final draft of our book about social media for lawyers, which will be published by the American Bar Association in just a few months.
When we began, we required an online platform that would allow us to collaborate and create the [...]

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Adapt Business Strategies of the Wealthy for Your Law Practice

January 21, 2010

The wealthiest people in the world belong to a collaborative group of like-minded, complementary professionals in pursuit of the same end objectives in their respective industries. You should be doing the same thing in your law firm.
After studying the successes of other great business leaders in the 19th and 20th centuries, Napoleon Hill concluded in [...]

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Collaborative Technology Increases Productivity and Profit

October 19, 2009

Using online video chats and instant messaging seems might seem like socializing, but a recent study shows that using such collaborative tools also increases productivity. Collaborative tools include everything from IM to ridiculously expensive teleconferencing technology (Skype and Tinychat are much cheaper alternatives).
The study, sponsored by Verizon and Cisco, surveyed over 3,662 decisionmakers from organizations [...]

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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

Note new post: What I use to manage my practice (update), February 6, 2009
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 solo or small law practice, but there is always [...]

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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

Updates: Law practice software made simple: Time59, July 6, 2009; A full client cycle with Time59, April 15, 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 [...]

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