AALL has made available four archived Webinars presented October 2008 - January 2009 in the Members Only Section of AALLNET: Twenty Essentials for the Effective Speaker ($25) How to Train Without Showing Up ($25) Law Firm Library Budgeting for Hard......

Today, I completed three months of personal executive coaching. I came away with a plan for making the most out of the time I have each week, including "me time" and volunteering. Most importantly, the message that was reinforced was the need for balance. Nothing should become so emphasize...

Revisiting Bob Sutton's The No Asshole Rule, there are clearly big exceptions. By many accounts, highly successful CEOs like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, and Larry Ellison were all abusive and disruptive managers. So how important is it for managers to not be dysfunctional, abusive jerks?...

Did you know: Businesses around the world create more than 7.5 billion documents and that 35% of these documents contain legally sensitive information? Thought so. In most work environments and organizations, IS departments try to provide a shared place for users to store and interact with files. In...

Forrester isn't the only analyst firm taking a close look at Social Media. CMS Watch has taken a hard look at some of the top social software and collaboration tools on the market today. Unlike Forrester, however, they are looking at more than just community tools for interactive marketing. If you h...

It's hard to believe that we are well past the mid-month mark of January! We all start the new year with new hope, new ideas, and new goals. Champagne-fueled promises on New Year's Eve seem easy and impossible not to accomplish. I am a firm believer that if we don't attempt to excel, we ...

It's hard to predict what 2009 will bring.  As we move into the first full business week, I expect some new layoffs and for the most part, fairly low morale.  Here's my reasoning: Holidays are over and people who have a job are back to "the grind" Economy still uncertai...

Educon 2.1 is coming up in about three weeks, and with it, for me, comes an exciting (and downright scary) opportunity to facilitate a conversation that I’ve been having off and on for a very long time.  Here’s the description of the session: The Internet as a medium, or way of communic...

Ryerson University in Toronto offers a range of magazine courses, a couple of which* I teach ; available singly or as part of a magazine publishing certificate. Here are a few of them that start in the new year. (Early registration is particularly important since this is hard on the heels of the Chr...

I decided to take a break for the past week, enjoy my family during the Thanksgiving holiday, and return renewed. Doing What Comes Naturally was about paying more attention to what comes easily to us. Too often we ignore our talents because it doesn't "feel" like we are working very hard. The reason...