Mike McBride on Tech, eDiscovery and Mental Health - Issue #19
Here's to a better 2022!
Workplace Culture
Linked: Most Managers Don't Listen Well — www.mikemcbrideonline.com If you aren't even trying to listen during difficult conversations how will employees ever truly feel valued? This does explain some of the disconnects around managers wanting to return to the office when employees don't, or managers feeling like they've made the effort to support employee mental health when employees don't agree. In order to understand that what you're doing isn't working, you have to actually ask people.
Diversity and collaboration are key for remote working teams | World Economic Forum — www.weforum.org Collaboration, social skills and diversity increase the collective intelligence of teams - whether they work remotely or in the office - a new study shows.
What Your Employees Wish You Knew About Having Better Meetings | Inc.com — www.inc.com Leading a better meeting starts with these six steps.
eDiscovery and Legal Tech
eDiscovery best and worst practices with gifs, emojis and more | Reuters — www.reuters.com Katherine A. Helm and Daniel Roberts, of Dechert LLP, and Averie K. Hason of Eli Lilly and Company, discuss emerging issues in eDiscovery relating to embedded images in emails and new methods of communication.
“Location, Location, Location” Isn’t Just About Real Estate, It’s Also About Mobile Device Evidence | Forensics Discovery — forensicdiscovery.expert Learn about the four ways to track a phone without location services and other helpful information regarding mobile forensics.
Mental Health
Taking Time Off Won’t Fix Employee Mental Health — talentculture.com Offering employees time off isn't a solution for mental health issues. To better support people, implement a well-being strategy.
You Are More Than Your Job — www.mikemcbrideonline.com I think this is something that many of us have been realizing to some degree in the past couple of years. We are more than our work, and there are things in life that are more important than our work. I enjoyed the questions and challenges Arthur lays out as well, so you should go read the article and consider those. As I read through them I had one thought, over and over again. How many of my friends don't even care about what I do for a living? I feel very lucky to have those folks. The people who've remained friends regardless of my current career status, The ones who might not even really understand what I do for a living. Because they ground me, and remind me that in actuality, what I do during my workday isn't really that big of a deal. It's all well and good to be great at my job, but the important people in my life are there because of the relationship we have, not because I'm good at legal tech, and I want them in my life because of who they are, not what their job is. That's a big deal.
Security
Once More For the People In the Back - Do Not Give Out Any Information To Someone Who Calls You — www.mikemcbrideonline.com And so, I repeat. Do not give out any information to someone who calls you. Hang up, and call your bank directly. Go read the whole thing for more of the details on these services, and how they work. It's interesting. But if you remember nothing else, remember that when anyone calls and says they are calling about your account, a legal issue, etc. Hang up, and call the place they say they are calling from directly. That's not how any legitimate business works anymore, so the second someone calls you and starts asking you to verify who you are, be suspicious and hang up.
RedLine malware shows why passwords shouldn't be saved in browsers — www.bleepingcomputer.com
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Social Media
The Copyright Industry Wants Everything Filtered As It Is Uploaded; Here's Why That Will Be A Disaster | Techdirt — www.techdirt.com The history of copyright can be seen as one of increasing control by companies over what ordinary people can do with material created by others. For the online world, the endgame is where copyright holders get to check and approve every single file...
Linked: The Third Web — www.mikemcbrideonline.com Here's the thing. I've been around the internet, and the Web, a long time. Long enough to remember when HTML was going to "democratize" publishing and when blogging was going to "democratize journalism" and when social media was going to be the thing that finally "democratized" the Web and gave everyone a voice. None of that proved to be true. Each and every iteration of Internet technology eventually wound up with a couple of big winners, and some sort of monopoly. What is it about Web3 that makes people think this will end any differently?