By Larry Port
on March 9, 2010
If you’re like most law firms these days, you’re probably either a) contemplating running a paperless office b) transitioning to a paperless office or c) enjoying the awesomeness of the paperless office.
In Part Two of this series, we examine your document scanning “workflow”.
A workflow consists of a sequence of connected steps. (Wikipedia)
And when you’re going paperless, [...]
By Larry Port
on March 4, 2010
I’ve never been more psyched to get an autoresponder. Notice that not only is this attorney blocking off his or her schedule for emails, but is doing so at strategic times: right before lunch and the final bell.
This allows a head of steam to be built up in the morning, a la the “don’t [...]
By Larry Port
on February 24, 2010
Computer Spa Day, which we talked about before (for both mobile and regular computers), will save you time and money.
I couldn’t believe it. I wasn’t able to install Apple’s mammoth iPad SDK on my two-year old MacBook Pro because I was out of hard drive space. Luckily, some genius named “eriban” wrote a donation-only program [...]
By Larry Port
on February 22, 2010
On a scale of 1-5 (5 being the highest) rank your level of agreement with the statement: I feel I have control over how I spend my time.
This webinar is sponsored by Rocket Matter and is free to attend.
We’ll be raffling off a $50 certificate to Best Buy!
We’ll also give away free copies of Barbara’s book, Market You [...]
By Larry Port
on February 17, 2010
A lot of times, when I read productivity blogs (an admittedly nerdy habit of mine), I come across nominally interesting ideas. This is the first one I’ve read in a long time that really resonated with me.
Amber Singleton Riviere writes in Web Worker Daily about the importance of padding your schedule and other aspects [...]
By Larry Port
on February 16, 2010
This past weekend I took a vacation I felt I had no business to take. I’m under a ton of deadlines, and it feels like I need three of me just to get my job done. Buried, as they say.
However, I reluctantly took the time, and by doing so, remembered how crucial vacation [...]
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By Larry Port
on February 9, 2010
Social Media, whether Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, LinkedIn, Flickr, or something else, is like a huge train whizzing by. Some people are trying desperately to get on it (enter the snake oil salesmen) while others are spending a little too much time on it.
For those of you on the Social Media train, how often do you [...]
By Larry Port
on January 28, 2010
Busy people pride themselves on their multi-tasking abilities. However, every time you make the context switch from one activity to the other, you’re kidding yourself if you don’t recognize the overhead that goes with it.
The overhead of switching tasks can be minimal. It might take a couple of seconds to get one’s bearings, or it [...]
By Larry Port
on January 27, 2010
Today marks the much awaited announcement of the Apple iPad. Considering that people’s mouths were watering over the non-event of the iPhone 3G S launch last year, the arrival of the tablet is garnering, as many have observed, the type of interest reserved only for other tablets delivered to the masses several millenia ago [...]
By Larry Port
on January 21, 2010
Do you type the same things OVER and OVER again? Do you have important codes that need to be correct 100% of the time without error?
Then take a look at programs called Text Expanders. You and your staff will be eternally grateful.
Basically, text expanders allow you to define your own shortcuts or abbreviations that, [...]
