“The practice of law is, has been, and will continue to be a collaborative process” according to Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell, authors of The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together. True enough. And collaboration in the Internet Age is not what it used to be. In their book, Dennis and Tom have compiled a guide for lawyers who want to keep up with current tools and methods of collaboration that take advantage of the technology. For example the book discusses
With an-easy-to read-format, short chapters, and full glossary and index, in addition to a complete list of tools and resources, The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies is exactly what it claims to be.
Another day another buzzword. Today it’s the real-time web - one in a series of recent developments making the web more useful. Now the web
Much high-quality writing about this comes from Read/Write/Web, host of the Real-Time Web Summit going on right now. Here are some of the companies they’ve featured thus far:
While the legal applications for these developments are virtually limitless, even day-to-day applications are intriguing. At last my refrigerator can call, IM, or e-mail with a reminder to go grocery shopping; or it may just transmit a pre-programmed list to the store based on the fridge’s lastest contents (adjusted for plans to have the neighbors over). Events that I upload from my phone to my calendar are communicated to the refigerator which can remind me to buy party supplies, etc. The list goes on and on.
Now if you don’t mind I’m going to tell my house to raise the room temperature in time for my arrival this evening.
Just got my invitation to Google Wave. Should be called Google Crack. I’ve been online for 5 hours and still want to experiment but I’m about to pass out. To put it in perspective, I heard about the invitation at 8:30 Friday night. It is now 6:40 Saturday morning. I’ve been tooling around with Wave since 2:45 AM (didn’t sleep last night, okay?).
Turns out that Wave isn’t that complex (despite appearances). The most apt description I’ve heard yet was offered on Bwana.tv where the host referred to it as an open-sourced real-time multimedia platform for communication …. that just happens to draw on nearly all Google’s media properties – e-mail (gmail), video (YouTube), games, pictures (Picasa), IM (gTalk), social networking (Orkut), documents (Google Docs), real-time online collaboration (Google Docs again), etc.
The point is his tool could really, really change the way we communicate with each other and with clients. It’s that useful. I’ll keep my readers up to date. So far so good.
P.S. In true Internet, word-of-mouth, hacker fashion I got my invitation through a longtime online contact I originally met blogging, who got it from a contact of his, and so on. You could say we scarcely know one another but he helped me become part of the 100,000 who got Wave invites. Thanks for that bro!
Wave is Google’s open-sourced real-time multimedia platform for communications, combining e-mail (gmail), video (YouTube), pictures (Picasa), IM (gTalk), social networking (Orkut), and real-time online collaboration (Google Docs).
Who knew? It turns out that free tools online can help you achieve your personal, financial, and practice goals. Below you’ll find the 10-step plan to do it.
1. Get the big-picture of what you want do to using software like mindjet.
2. Develop task lists via Remember the Milk, Google Tasks, etc.
3. Use services like Bing and Hunch that give suggestions.
4. Record your progress via Springpad and like services.
5. Use tools like Diigo, Zotero, and Laterloop, to save work.
6. Searchpad can help integrate the results of your research.
7. Calendar and organize using services like Ning and Meetup.
8. Build or participate in communities of goal-oriented people.
9. Review content-sharing sites like WordPress, YouTube, etc.
10. Refine, reconfigure, repeat.
Sites to Checkout
Geezeo tracks personal finances in a community of like-minded people. The site just launched a Facebook application.
Mint: the more famous and earlier financial website recently purchased by Intuit, the makers of Quicken. Imagine the possibilities.
Goalmigo is an online community that helps you set, track and find supporters to reach your goals.
112 Apps that help you Get Things Done (GTD) is a great list, but of course who has time when you’re getting things done?
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