Mike McBride on Tech, eDiscovery and Mental Health - Issue #16
eDiscovery and Legal Tech
Linked: Everyone is burned out. That's becoming a security nightmare — www.mikemcbrideonline.com OK fine, my near-weekly encouragement to see your employees as human beings first, and look out for them as human beings haven't convinced you that burnout is a problem for your business. How about the fact that tired, burned-out employees eventually just check out and create a security nightmare?
How to Get Ahead of E-Discovery's Shift to Digital Communications — www.smarsh.com “I suspect by 2023 email is not going to be the main source of e-discovery. If it's bad actors, they’re not going to be using email.”
The eDiscovery Manager’s Guide: How to preserve Zoom meeting data and chats | Onna Technologies, Inc. - JDSupra — www.jdsupra.com With over 300 million active daily meeting participants and counting, Zoom’s vast adoption has generated new concerns for legal and IT teams. Just like any other app that holds critical...
Why Legaltech Is Poised For Hypergrowth – Crunchbase News — news.crunchbase.com The meteoric rise in legaltech investments in the last 18 months brings to mind fintech, another vertical that disrupted the incumbents and reeled in billions of private capital dollars, writes Raj Goyle, co-founder and CEO of Bodhala, in this guest commentary.
Social Media
Social Media Has Everyone Using Fear and Outrage to Get Attention, even the NY Times — www.mikemcbrideonline.com I'm making an example of the Times because they like to consider themselves America's "Paper of Record", and even they are now using fear and outrage to gain attention, no better than a Twitter or Facebook troll, but it's happening everywhere. It's also no surprise that it's becoming popular among all media outlets because it works. If we've learned anything from fake news sites, biased cable channels, YouTube "experts" and social media influencers it's that you will never lose an audience by making people afraid. You will get their attention, you will stimulate a fear-based response that causes their brand to kick into survival mode and become hyperalert to dangers, which they then are happy to continue to feed you.
Linked: CNN Shutting Down Its Facebook In Australia Shows How Removing 230 Will Silence Speech — www.mikemcbrideonline.com And this same song and dance will repeat for every single site on the internet until there's very little left. The only companies with enough resources to actually do all the things that would be required to monitor all content, ironically, would be Google, Facebook, etc. Gee, it's almost like giving them a gift, eliminating ALL of the competition. It's no wonder Facebook has been asking for regulation. They know the rest of us won't be able to keep up.
Twitter's New 'Private Information' Policy Takes Impossible Content Moderation Challenges To New, Ridiculous Levels | Techdirt — www.techdirt.com I've been working on a post about a whole bunch of interesting (and good!) things that Twitter has been doing over the last few months. I'm not sure when that post will be ready, but I need to interrupt that process to note a truly...
Mental Health
Link - How To Create A Workplace That Supports Mental Health — www.childabusesurvivor.net This article not only identifies the problem, but also has a bunch of really good, practical advice, for employers on how to support employee’s mental health. “One of the best ways to create a culture that supports mental health is to ensure people experience their jobs in a meaningful and purposeful way. This can be...
Link - What Happened When I Told My Boss I Was Struggling with Mental Illness — www.childabusesurvivor.net “If we lived in a stigma-free world, my experience of acceptance in the workplace would be common. I would not be incredibly lucky to have taken these risks and gained rather than lost. The anonymous responses I received when I looked for different perspectives and stories of opening up about mental illness at the workplace...
Careers and Workplace
Linked - How George H.W. Bush used handwritten thank-you notes to build bridges — www.mikemcbrideonline.com This is an interesting example to consider, professionally and personally. He carved out time most evenings to write cards and thank-you notes. He wrote
Thoughts from Vacation - Everyone is in Customer Service — www.mikemcbrideonline.com As part of the on going series of things I took the time to notice while away from work and computers for a couple of weeks, I want to talk about cruise