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Firms Turning to Open Source Alternatives for Web Site Design & Management
By Nerino Petro at 8 December, 2010, 4:03 pm
My friend Larry Bodine has a great article on firms turning away from custom content management systems for their websites and turning to free and open source solutions for website design and content management. While Larry specifically talks about Drupal, one of the comments to his post also mentions Joomla and WordPress (which is the platform that Compujurist uses).
Read More >>The Unofficial Guide to Dropbox Now Available
By Nerino Petro at 23 November, 2010, 12:03 pm
I’m a big fan of Dropbox and wrote about this terrific tool in my recent post Dropbox: Have you Got Yours? With consummate timing, the folks at Makeuseof.com posted an article entitled The First Unofficial Guide to Dropbox , making available for free download or online reading, Matt Smith’s Using the Magic Pocket: A Dropbox Manual ebook.
Read More >>Do You Know What to Do if You or a Client are Attacked on the Web?
By Nerino Petro at 29 July, 2010, 10:09 am
If you’ve ever had to try and get someone who is posting your materials on their site without permissioin or someone who has posted malicious information on the web dealt with, it can be a confusing and daunting task. The Law Technology News Daily alert email has a link to How to Protect Client Reputation From Web Attacks which provides a nice overview of things to do including the absolute need to use the complaint procedure of the hosting site.
Read More >>Firms are moving to the Cloud
By Nerino Petro at 4 May, 2010, 11:24 am
Interesting interview over at the InsideLegal blog with Eric Hunter, Director of Knowledge Management for Bradford & Barthel LLP which is based in California and has 73 attorneys and 207 employees. Hunter details the firms 24 month plan to move away from internal applications and move everything over to the Cloud including replacing MS Office with Google Apps. Read the entire interview here. Hat tip to JoAnna Forshee for letting me know about this post.
Read More >>Young Lawyers and Technology: A Paradigm Shift?
By Nerino Petro at 15 April, 2010, 12:23 pm
To stay relevant, older attorneys and those not as comfortable with technology must overcome their fears and adapt to the new reality lest they go the way of the buggy whip and horse drawn carriage.
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