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Here are recent posts from the microblog (an exceptionally good [...]
Tom Mighell and I have recorded another episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast and it's now available on the Legal Talk Network and on iTunes, with an RSS feed here. The episode is called "Making a List and Sharing It Too" (show notes here), [...]
Just noticed that I passed the 1,500 post mark on this blog.
And I wanted to mention that The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast has talked Tom and me into letting it have it's own Twitter account - @tkmreport. The podcast had been complaining (a lot) lately about how it was [...]
Tom Mighell and I have recorded another episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast and it's now available on the Legal Talk Network and on iTunes, with an RSS feed here. The episode is called "Is Windows 7 Coming to Your Computer?" (show notes website), [...]
DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
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Rick Borstein on using Adobe Acrobat to create email portfolios for small [...]I have a few Google Wave invitations that I'd be happy to extend to regular readers of this blog who would like to test out Wave. Send me an email at denniskennedyblog @ gmail.com with your email address and some info about what you'd like to use Google Wave [...]
We went to see the Bruce Springsteen show in St. Louis on Sunday. I planned to blog about it last night, but the story of the cancellation of last night’s Kansas City show because of the death of Springsteen’s cousin and road crew manager had just broken and it seemed [...]
My latest technology column for the ABA Journal is out. It's called "Broadening Search" and it focuses on shortcomings people are finding with an over-reliance on Google search and covers some alternatives to Google for certain types of searching.
As I like to say, "The next generation of" [...]
Tom Mighell and I have recorded another episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast and it's now available on the Legal Talk Network and on iTunes, with an RSS feed here. The episode is called "The Electronic Legal Pad and the Post-Paper Practice of Law" ([...]
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RT @collabtools: Tomorrow morning's Legal Rebels audiocast: "Working Collaboratively Works Best" with [...]Tom Mighell and I have recorded another episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast and it's now available on the Legal Talk Network and on iTunes, with an RSS feed here. The episode is called "Bulls and Bears: Lawyers Using Social Media" (show notes website) [...]
I've long maintained that the scariest message I can see on my computer is a notice asking me if I want to install a new version of iTunes. Well, the message about installing [...]
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RT @DanB: Condolences to @davewiner on the passing of his dad. Dave [...]My latest technology column for the ABA Journal is out. It's called "Fighting Flabby Files" and it focuses on the growing (pun intended) problem of people sending large files as email attachments.
I show how some low-cost and free alternatives can alleviate daily hassles large files can cause.
With [...]
Tom Mighell and I have recorded another episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast and it's now available on the Legal Talk Network and on iTunes, with an RSS feed here. The episode is called "Law Firms and Legal Technology: Trends and Challenges" (show notes [...]
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Sept. 25: speaking on Web 2.0 & Legal Ethics with @internetcases and [...]Tom Mighell and I have recorded another episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast and it's now available on the Legal Talk Network and on iTunes. The episode is called "Is it Time to Get Real About the Real-time Web?" (show notes website) and here's the episode [...]
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We're looking for a few reviewers of the 2009 update to our' [...]DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
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Amber Riviere: Your blog is your mothership - [bit.ly]Patrick Lamb on [...]
Tom Mighell and I have recorded another episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast and it's now available on the Legal Talk Network and on iTunes. The episode is called "Online Reputation Management" (show notes website) and here's the episode description:
Have all of your posts, comments and [...]People occasionally ask me about the ROI (return on investment) of Twitter. I see what I'm doing on Twitter (especially DennisKennedy.Microblog) as a series of experiments. I also look at Twitter as another channel for some of my writing and an experimental channel for certain types of information.
To make a' [...]
DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
Here are recent posts from the microblog. As an aside, it's intriguing to me that any one or [...]
Tom Mighell and I have recorded another episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast and it's now available on the Legal Talk Network and on iTunes. The episode is called "The State of the Blawgosphere" (show notes here) and here's the episode description:
On this edition of the [...]DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
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My latest technology column for the ABA Journal is out. It's called "Working in the Cloud" and it focuses on the area now known as Software as a Service (SaaS) or hosted services or cloud computing. In fact, it's my effort to make the concept of cloud computing [...]
Tom Mighell and I have recorded another episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast and it's now available on the Legal Talk Network and on iTunes. The episode is called "Email Etiquette 2.0" and here's the description:
As the way we use and respond to email has evolved, has [...]I find it much easier to write columns than it is to come up with topics for columns. My usual trick is to brainstorm a bunch of topics and then put together a calendar of topics for several months in advance.
It's that time again for my technology column in the [...]
Let me add my "me too" to the many accolades for the new issue of the Law Practice Today webzine with its focus on tips for "suddenly solo" lawyers. "Suddenly solo" is a phrase that refers to lawyers (increasingly these days long-time law firm partners) who find, often with [...]
I'm looking forward to be one of the panelist on Thursday night (July 16) at the Social Media Club of St. Louis's legal and ethics panel discussion and networking event. It'll be held at Moulin Events, in the first floor Chouteau Room at 2017 Chouteau Ave, Saint Louis, MO [...]
My latest technology column for the ABA Journal is out. It's called "Countdown to Savings" and it focuses on ways that law firms can use technology audits, from the simple to the complex, to get information that they can use to make good business decisions about technology.
The idea [...]
Lots of interest in St. Louis about the baseball all-star game. On Saturday evening, we took in the opening of a new photography exhibit featuring some prominent baseball photographers, including my brother-in-law, Dan Donovan, who has several excellent photos (see the show's home page for one of [...]
Tom Mighell and I have recorded another episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast and it's now available on the Legal Talk Network and on iTunes. The episode is called "What Technology is Dead Today?" and here's the description:
Twitter, Facebook, blogging? Hardly a day goes by without someone [...]DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
Here are recent posts from the microblog. As an aside, it's intriguing to me that any one or [...]
Trying to get back into the swing of blogging (and Twittering, for that matter) after our family vacation (for the curious, it was Maui and it was awesome) and some time off the grid.
Tom Mighell and I have recorded another episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast and it's now [...]
The newest episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast is up and available on the Legal Talk Network and on iTunes. The episode is called "Learn to use NEW Technology: 101" and here's the description:
How do people learn to use new technology — and is it different for [...]DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
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Jack Vinson on "Information Overload 201" - [...]Let me recommend the new issue of the ABA's Law Practice Today webzine. Wendy Werner has put together another great issue and I'm sure you'll find several articles that will make your visit to the webzine worth your while.
This issue also contains my article, "Legal Technology Trends" [...]
The newest episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast is now available for download on the Legal Talk Network. You can also subscribe to podcast on iTunes. Our friends at Rocket Matter sponsor this episode.
This episode is called "Kindle Me This." The recent announcement of the larger [...]
We'll be recording the next episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast on Friday, May 8.
Our new format has a segment where we answer a few questions from our audience. Of course, that means we need to have some questions to answer.
The working title of our next episode is' [...]
DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
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Ed Poll: Lawyers will still be needed [...][In addition to my annual tradition of publishing an article on legal technology trends for the year, I've also experimented with posting drafts of the article on my blog before I've completely finished it and it's actually published as an article. This year's edition is running a little late and [...]
Got the word today that the newest episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast is now available for download. You can also subscribe to podcast on iTunes.
This episode has been given the intriguing title of "Has PowerPoint Killed the Presentation?" There's no doubt that PowerPoint can be deadly [...]
We'll be recording the next episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast on Friday. In the last episode, we had a segment in which we answered an question sent to us in advance.
We enjoyed it so much that we're thinking of making it a regular segment in the show.
Of [...]
DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
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Very wise words from Penelope Trunk: "Reality" [...]Episode 2 of The Kennedy-Mighell Report Podcast is now available at its new home on the Legal Talk Network. In this episode, Tom and I talk with our guest co-host, Adrian Linares, about our take-aways from the recent ABA TECHSHOW 2009.
As I mention in the podcast, TECHSHOW reminded [...]
DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
Here are posts from the microblog for the last week or so to give you a flavor of [...]
Wanted to try my hand at liveblogging, which is really blogging your notes from a session: Let me know what you think.
My notes on session:
At the end of these economic difficulties, the legal landscape will not return to “normal,” instead it will be drastically changed.
KPMG mission statement – we exist [...]
I'll be at the ABA TECHSHOW April 2 - April 4 and hope to see many of you, especially those from Chicago, there, although I expect I'll live up to my reputation as the worst liveblogger ever.
However, I have some big news. The Kennedy-Mighell Report, a podcast Tom Mighell [...]
The ABA Journal has just posted my latest legal technology column. It's called "Going Solo on a Budget," and it's part 1 of a two-part series on technology for new solos and small firms.
The legal profession is not exempt from the current economic turmoil. I wrote the introduction [...]
DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
Here are posts from the microblog for the last week or so to give you a flavor of [...]
DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
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Anyone else notice this phenomenon lately? I'm starting to wonder if it's a symptom of the economic turmoil.
Here's what I'm talking about:
You are driving on a highway and cars are moving at 60 - 70 miles an hour. Then you see one of two similar things happen:
1. A car comes [...]
Anyone else notice this phenomenon lately? I'm starting to wonder if it's a symptom of the economic turmoil.
Here's what I'm talking about:
You are driving on a highway and cars are moving at 60 - 70 miles an hour. Then you see one of two similar things happen:
1. A car comes [...]
DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
Here are posts from the microblog for the last week or so to give you a flavor of [...]
DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
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As part of blawgiversary week at DennisKennedy.Blog, I've invited readers to send me their questions and I'll try to answer each of them with a "By Request" post.
Not surprisingly, real life has intruded on my plan, so I'm running behind. However, keep sending your questions in and I'll see [...]
As part of blawgiversary week at DennisKennedy.Blog, I've invited readers to send me their questions and I'll try to answer each of them with a "By Request" post.
Not surprisingly, real life has intruded on my plan, so I'm running behind. However, keep sending your questions in and I'll see [...]
As part of blawgiversary week at DennisKennedy.Blog, I've invited readers to send me their questions and I'll try to answer each of them with a "By Request" post.
Not surprisingly, real life has intruded on my plan, so I'm running behind. However, keep sending your questions in and I'll see [...]
As part of blawgiversary week at DennisKennedy.Blog, I've invited readers to send me their questions and I'll try to answer each of them with a "By Request" post.
Today's question was: "Can you give us more details on your presentations at TECHSHOW?"
While I like the new design of the [...]
On February 15, 2003, I launched this blog with the following post:
And so it begins . . .I realized the other day that I had first written about blogs well over a year ago. In fact, the rise of blogs was one of my 2002 predictions for legal technology in [...]
DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
Here are posts from the microblog for the last week or so to give you a flavor of [...]
For the second time in last four years, I've found myself at St. Louis Business Journal's 40 Under 40 awards dinner celebrating a friend being named to the list. In 2005, it was Kevin Buckley and tonight it was my colleague in MasterCard's law department, Julie Broyles.
What I've [...]
I wrote a post on LawyersGuidetoCollaboration.com the other day called "Eating Our Own Collaboration Tools Dog Food." For those unfamiliar with the reference, "eating one's own dog food" is a term, often associated with Microsoft, that refers to a company that actually uses its own products.
The reference in [...]
DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
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Hildebrandt and Citi Private Bank 2009 Client [...]Client technology surveys are an easy and inexpensive way to improve your use of technology and make it easier for your clients to work with you. In my latest ABA Journal tech column, A Powerful Little Tool You Must Use, I talk about the basics, benefits and best tips [...]
I'm running a little late on my annual legal technology trends article, but I've been thinking a lot about it and reading other technology predictions to give me ideas and help me clarify my thinking. I especially liked those from TechnoLawyer and Ross Kodner.
I was thinking about the [...]
In the last few years, I've enjoyed reading the posts of several bloggers who are trying to read 52 books in 52 weeks. I've also wanted to find a good way for me to keep track of the books I've read.
Last year, I decided to try to do' [...]
DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
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The Fully Connected Law Firm - [...]In the last few days, I've been getting a surprising number of emails (way more than one) asking me if I'll have time to get together at LegalTech in New York. It's flattering and it reminds me how much fun attending LegalTech can be. It's also interesting how people [...]
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AMC is offering a chance to view [...]
This is part 3 of a 3-part retrospective on the year 2008 on DennisKennedy.Blog.
In part 1 of this retrospective, I covered the articles I wrote in 2008 and the related posts about them. In part two, I covered the other posts I wrote on this blog in 2008. [...]
This is part 2 of a 3-part retrospective on the year 2008 on DennisKennedy.Blog.
In part 1 of this retrospective, I covered the articles I wrote in 2008 and the related posts about them.
In this part two, I cover the other posts I wrote on this blog in 2008. Part [...]
This is part 1 of a 3-part retrospective on the year 2008 on DennisKennedy.Blog.
The big news in 2008 at DennisKennedy.Blog was the publication of the book The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technology: Smart Ways to Work Together, by Tom Mighell and me. We're delighted by the response [...]
I got a little gift from St. Louis County, Missouri in the mail on Christmas Eve.
I could tell from the envelope that it was a jury summons, but I was surprised to see it was addressed to me.
A quick search on the Internet disabused me of my outdated [...]
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The Great Reboot from @johnrobb - [...]
Welcome to the 2008 edition of Dennis Kennedy's annual Best of Law-related Blogging Awards, better known as the "Blawggies." The Blawggies, which honor the best-related blogs as determined from my personal and highly-opinionated perspective, were first unleashed on an unsuspecting blogosphere in December 2004 and are now an [...]
DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here. There's a lot discussion of Twitter these days and my microblog is an easy place to check [...]
DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
I'd like to announce that Tom Mighell and I have created a new Twitter microblog for our book [...]
My latest column in the ABA Journal is called "It's Time to Think About Audio/Video."
Here's the opening:
Lawyers love text on a page. The single-space letter or memo is the lingua franca of our trade. Our PowerPoint slides are usually dense with text, and even the mention of adding a [...]
It was great to get notice today that this blog was again named as one of the ABA Journal Blawg 100 for 2008 in the "Plugged-in" category. There are nine other excellent blogs in the category and other excellent ones that did not get named, so I'm honored to [...]
The graphic above is a tag cloud from Wordle that I generated from the article, What Should You Do Now? A Roundtable Discussion on Law Practice in a Time of Great Economic Turmoil, which is just one part of an excellent new issue of the [...]
DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
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What Should You Do Now? A Roundtable [...]
DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower (recently went over the 100 follower mark). An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
Here are posts from the microblog for the last week or [...]
DennisKennedy.Microblog is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here.
Here are posts from the microblog for the last week or so:
What is the potential of Obama's campaign [...]
Two things I'm sure of as election day approaches.
The first is that I wish Missouri had early voting.
I'm planning, instead, to use the less desirable Missouri "early morning" voting alternative and to post on Twitter (@denniskennedy) with my observations from the polling place.
The second thing is that I don't [...]
Long-time readers of DennisKennedy.Blog will know that I regularly listen to my iPod in the shuffle mode and sometimes notice patterns in the randomness. Yesterday was an example, I think, of an interesting pattern.
Although I did not technically get the three items I'll mention here exactly in a row, [...]
In my latest ABA Journal technology column, Get the (Instant) Message, Dude, I tried to put together a short primer for lawyers who use and are considering using instant messaging.
My motivation for the column:
Three different times last summer, I was standing in a line behind teenagers and saw one [...]
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Ross Kodner adopts the the laptop plus [...]
There's been a lot of well-deserved attention on Andrew Sullivan's "Why I Blog." I highly recommend the article.
It made me think about a post I wrote in 2004 in reaction to two of my all-time favorite blog posts. The post was called Why Do We Blog and pointed [...]
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"Windows Cloud" - Nick Carr on Amazon [...]
Green legal technology. Is there such a thing? My new ABA Journal column, "Go Green, Save Green," offers my answer to the question.
Subtitled "8 ideas to help the planet, your pocketbook," the column takes a practical approach to green technology and argues that "green" initiatives will have more traction [...]
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Rajesh Jain's primer on the Don'ts of [...]
Back in January, I took a fresh look at some of my earlier thinking on what to do in connection with legal technology planning in bad economic times. My 2008 legal tech trends article had "dancing with a recession" as one of the eight trends.
But I never imagined [...]
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+ One source of content with many [...]
I've noticed a lot of discussion in the last week or so about ways lawyers (and others) might use Twitter. There have been some good primers on Twitter and Kevin O'Keefe, in particular, has talked about ways lawyers might use Twitter.
I so associate blue skies with 9/11 that the overcast, drizzly morning was oddly comforting to me.
My commute now takes me by an unexpected 9/11 memorial. Unexpected both in that it is in O'Fallon, Missouri and that it is found in the median of a four lane road. It's [...]
My new column in the ABA Journal, Mastering Your Disaster, is out and, even though it was written a couple of months ago, it seems especially timely in these Gustavian days.
The topic is online storage and backup and the role it can and should play in your [...]
