30 Technology Tips to Enhance Your Everyday Practice

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30 Technology Tips to Enhance Your Everyday
Practice

• Kristy Boyer, Legal Assistance Foundation of
  Metropolitan Chicago
• Gwen Daniels, Illinois Legal Aid Online

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Legal Resources on the Net
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1. Free Sources of Legal Research

• Jureeka! transforms legal citations in web pages
  into hyperlinks that point to online source
  material. (Firefox only)
• Cornell Universitys US Code system includes free
  code updates via RSS
• Illinois Legal Advocate
• ABAs LawLink

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2. Legal News Feeds

• ABA Law Blawgs Directory
• National Support Law RSS Feeds
• Feeds from Illinois Legal Advocate

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3. Automated Forms

• Advocate forms include
• Divorce
• Simple Will
• Civil Procedure Forms
• Powers of Attorney
• Client forms include
• Divorce
• Orders of Protection
• Guardianship
• Fee Waiver
• Security Deposits
• Advocate Library
• Pro Se Library

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4. Free MCLE Webcasts
Request credit from the live webcast page on
IllinoisLegalAdvocate.org
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5. Google News Custom News Feeds
http//news.google.com
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Tools and Tips to Manage All the Information
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6. Add RSS feeds to Outlook
Outlook 2003 Attensa offers a free plug-in RSS
reader
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7. NetVibes Custom Online Newspaper
http//www.netvibes.com
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8. Four Ways To Better Manage Your Inbox

• Flag Email that Needs Follow-Up and A Task Will
  Automatically Be Created
• Use Categories to Group Emails with Visible
  Color-coding
• Use Folders to Organize Information
• Create filters to keep less important email out
  of your inbox
• More tips Managing Information Overload

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9. Find Information Faster With Desktop Search
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10. Delicious
http//delicious.com/
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11. EverNote
http//www.evernote.com
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Collaboration Project Management Tools
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12. BaseCamp
Messages, To-Do Lists, Milestones, Whiteboards,
chat
http//www.basecamphq.com
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13. Central Desktop For Project Management
Files, Discussions, Tasks, Milestones, Calendar,
Reports, Forums
http//www.centraldesktop.com
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Central Desktop For Help Desks
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Central Desktop For Wikis
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14. Google Apps For NonProfits

• Free Education Edition for NonProfits
• Includes
• Gmail
• Google Calendar
• Google Talk
• Google Docs (word processing, spreadsheets,
  presentations)
• Google Sites (websites/wikis)
• Google VOIP and Video Chat

Google Apps
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Tools for Better Meetings
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15. Meeting Wizard
Send a meeting request to your colleagues.
http//www.meetingwizard.com
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and review the responses
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16. Adobe ConnectNow
http//www.acrobat.com
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17. LegalMeetings
http//www.lsntap.org/aboutlegalmeetings
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18. Campfire Free Chat Room
http//www.campfirenow.com/
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Tools for your Phone

• (and some work without a phone)

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19. Remember the Milk!
http//www.rememberthemilk.com/
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Works with

• Any web browser
• iPhone/iPod touch
• Blackberry
• Windows Mobile
• GMail
• Google Calendar
• Twitter

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20. GotVoice?
http//www.gotvoice.com/
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21. Jott
http//www.jott.com
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22. Google Mobile

• Send a text to Google (466453 ) for
• Flight status
• Restaurant locations
• Driving directions
• Sports scores
• Translations
• Weather
• Web snippets

http//www.google.com/intl/en_us/mobile/default/sm
s/index.html
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23. iPhone Applications

• iPhone integration with Exchange
• Truilia iPhone Application

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24. Blackberry Applications

• IM All-in-One Messenger AIM, Jabber, MySpace,
  Yahoo, MSN/Live, ICQ
• eOffice to edit Microsoft Word and Excel
  documents
• AlertMatrix supports filters on when you get
  notified on your phone
• More available through Handango.com

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Online File Storage and File Sharing
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25. Box
http//www.box.net
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26. YouSendIt
http//www.yousendit.com/
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27.Mozy 5 online backup
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Social Networking
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28. Social Networking Sites

• Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace
• Why they matter
• Client use Could be a problem if your client
  has damaging information on a social networking
  site
• Networking with other professionals
• Marketing your organization
• Job Postings
• Getting Information Out

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• MySpace Best Practices
• Facebook Best Practices

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29. YouTubes Nonprofit Channel

• Videos featured on the nonprofit channel
• Can be combined with Google Checkout for online
  donations
• A YouTube video can be embedded in any web page
• YouTube Best Practices

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30. A Few Fun Tech Toys
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Pandora
http//www.pandora.com/
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Twitter
http//twitter.com/
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Flickr
http//www.flickr.com/
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StumbleUpon
http//www.stumbleupon.com