View Article  More webinars for your diary
Here are some more webinars for your diary – this time from DocAuto. These are not 'live' links so please copy and paste them into your browser...

October 7, 2009 - Content Management for WorkSite Using WorkSpace Manager
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/508215058
 
October 14, 2009 - WorkSite Monitoring with Watchdog Server
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/344664723
 
October 15, 2009 - Putting Your Data to Work for You in WorkSite
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/834886026
 
October 22, 2009 - E-mail Lifecycle Management: Plan Before the Pile-Up Begins
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/937065491
 
October 28, 2009 - E-mail Management for WorkSite Using OutiM Server
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/225560771
View Article  Webinar to watch on Monday
TimeKM is hosting a live webinar for ILTA Members on September 28 at 12:00 EST (17:00GMT).  Session Title: Consumer Based Technologies an Opportunity to Engage the Firm.
 
Description: The proliferation of consumer technologies has engaged the modern professional on a personal level like never before. This provides an ideal opportunity for law firms to engage their attorneys with technology and in turn better position it as a competitive advantage for the firm. The famous quote "Attorneys will not use it" is being challenged every day. However, the bar has been set high by consumer trends, technologies, and innovative rich interfaces, thus forcing traditional business applications to step up to get into the game. See how TimeKM is identifying key consumer technologies and leveraging them within traditional business applications to increase adoption rates. Technologies such as web 2.0 (including instant messaging), mobility, and telephony are prime examples that will be demonstrated in the context of TimeKM's capture environment. This session attempts to unify the personal consumer experience with the professional needs in the business environment, resulting in increased adoption by attorneys, thereby propelling technology up the strategic ladder in law firms.

To register for this meeting cut & paste this link into your browser: https://pensera.webex.com/pensera/j.php?ED=110726767&RG=1&UID=1018329537&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D
 
View Article  Butterworths Alt legal IT event gets good reception
The Butterworths Alternative Legal IT Conference which took place at the end of last week seems to have received a good (well goodish) reception. We say "seemed" as obviously we haven't heard a squeak from the organisers (never seems to occur to them to follow up an event with a post-match report for the benefit of people who weren't there, with a view to encouraging them to attend the following year – its called marketing) but we had our spies on the ground. Although there were some grumbles – one person told us "Day two got off to a bit of a naff start – the agenda was changed and one of the sessions (HR implementations cancelled) so there were a few moans around the table." Plus we also heard  complaints the venue was difficult to get to, particularly if you were travelling by train from the North of England – however this report (from a top 100 firm delegate) seems to best sum up the experience...

"One of the better conferences I have been too. As it was aimed at the smaller law firms, the audience was made up of a lot of people that I hadn't met before (and firms I hadn't heard of!) rather than the usual suspects who do tend to dominate these things. The topics were interesting and well delivered by the speakers. The mix of presentations and round table discussions was spot on and there was a lot of interaction, particularly in the round table sessions, giving an interesting and varied discussion. Whilst there is always IT jargon to decipher, I found this conference to be particularly plain speaking and not too techie – some of the bigger conferences get carried away with the detail of how things work rather than the principles involved. And it wasn't all about solutions – the discussions on how IT interacts with the business, the pressures that businesses are currently facing and how IT can support that and the effect of the Legal Services Act were topics that I found particularly thought-provoking and insightful. It was a very relaxed and informative conference that I would definitely recommend attending. Whilst there were suppliers present, they weren't pushy or in your face and blended into the conference very well. No hard selling!!"

We also asked David McNamara from SOS (one of the suppliers who were present – Pilgrim were also there) for his views. He said "As one of the sponsors of The Alternative Legal IT Conference, we were very pleased with the event overall and found it extremely useful to attend. In particular, the roundtable discussions immediately after lunch on the first day were a great opportunity to share views and thoughts and the presentations on the second day, in which IT directors from several firms outlined their particular configuration of systems in use and their current projects and priorities, was very enlightening. From SOS's viewpoint, it helped to confirm that we do indeed have a very strong product offering and strategy for the mid-tier firms, that can address many of the key issues highlighted".
View Article  Keep on running - for charity
Here's another marathon man running for charity – this time its Craig Williams, who works in the Glasgow office of nFlow and is running the Berlin Marathon this weekend in aid of the Macmillan Cancer Charity. His charity site is www.justgiving.com/teammckeownberlin09
View Article  Blackberry + Digital Dictation - the movie
Here's an interesting video case study that RIM made on the integration of Blackberry devices with digital dictation – the location is an nFlow DDS site at Freeth Cartwright LLP...


View Article  Latest webinars to check out



Here's news of some webinars and events you may want to check out (or not, as the case may be)...

SmartWebParts (full story in next Insider) are running a series of webinars to introduce their new Smart Time system
www.smart-webparts.com/events.html

• As part of its current roadshow series, Workshare is holding an event in London on the 23 September. Following a presentation at Ashurst there will be hosting drinks and canapes in a 200 year old Masonic temple discovered at the Andaz Hotel during renovations in the late 1990s. The temple is decked in 12 types of Italian marble, with a blue and gold ceiling decorated with the signs of the zodiac and a mahogany throne at either end (see picture at top). Workshare will be demonstrating the latest version of Workshare Professional 5.2 SR2. Email Jes Breslaw for more details at Jes.Breslaw@workshare.com
If you can't make the event, there is also a webinar on 22 September
www.workshare.com/company/events/webinars/whats-new-SR2.aspx

Mimecast is holding a webinar on 24 September to introduce its new cloud-based email management system
http://dmtrk.com/3DI-1VMD-7NXF4-168EU-1/c.aspx

Litera Corp is holding a webinar on 25 September to showcase the company's Change-Pro ‘Compound Document’ comparison technology that enables you to compare an entire document, including embedded objects and images
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/236139851
View Article  Scottish law firm now on YouTube
Glasgow solicitors Inksters has launched a YouTube channel. The channel contains an initial five films which are also available at www.inksters.com. These include a film on The Home Report, one about windfarming on croft land and another on the House of Lords case Moncrieff v Jamieson. Brian Inkster said "putting these films on YouTube will bring them to a wider audience. It is a natural extension of the web 2.0 policy we have been pursuing at Inksters. We were the first Scottish law firm to Twitter earlier this year and we are perhaps now the first Scottish law firm with a dedicated YouTube channel".
www.youtube.com/user/InkstersSolicitors#play/user/6AF1C9DFB95D38D0