Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #41
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Child Abuse and Mental Health Survivors Information- Issue #38 | Revue — www.getrevue.co Child Abuse and Mental Health Survivors Information - After a weekend focused on a lovely wedding and spending time with friends we've not see in a couple of yea
Careers and the Workplace
Creating a Learning Organization Is No Longer an Option | ATD — www.td.org A learning organization is essential for your organization’s present and future. It requires a growth mindset where an organization learns how to value curiosity and experimentation.
Great Employees Don't Complain - They Walk Away — www.linkedin.com As a new manager, who comes to mind when you think of a great employee? In most cases it only takes a second or two to answer that question - you know your star performers. Your best people constantly impress you with their work and the positive impact they have on others.
Mental Health
65% of IT help desk teams report unsustainable levels of stress - Help Net Security — www.helpnetsecurity.com 65% of IT help desk teams are reporting an increase in the number of team members reporting unsustainable levels of stress.
Why Taking Time Off Ultimately Helps Your Team | Relativity Blog | Relativity — www.relativity.com The Great Resignation has highlighted unprecedented burnout in the workforce. But it doesn't have to continue, and taking time off is essential to changing the story.
Security and Privacy
Linked: Employees’ email still drives most of the data loss at organizations — www.mikemcbrideonline.com A good chunk of these breaches are not someone actually trying to steal data, but just someone trying to either make something more easily accessible outside of the office or taking information when they leave related to things like contact information, maybe some documents they've written themselves that they want to keep, etc. It's likely that these folks aren't actively trying to commit some sort of corporate espionage, they just aren't really thinking about what they do. It might just be that the once-per-year required video just isn't enough to make it top of mind every day.
Do I Really Need to Back Up All My Data? | WIRED — www.wired.com WIRED’s spiritual advice columnist on external hard drives and the value of digitized memories.
Linked: How to build a culture of cybersecurity — www.mikemcbrideonline.com This is the one thing I've talked about before when it comes to where we might fall short on our cybersecurity training, we don't really hold anyone accountable. Make cybersecurity part of formal employee evaluation. Give people a reason to care. Much like I talked a couple of weeks ago about creating a training culture, provide a way for people to learn more and to learn from others. Give them space and time to talk about security. Recommend they read some security blogs, meet to share stories about the latest phishing information out there, etc.
eDiscovery and Legal Tech
The Magnificent Seven: Blunt Observations from Judge Jeffrey Cole — ediscoverytoday.com One of our favorite judges is Judge Jeffrey Cole. Here are notable observations from the “magnificent seven” rulings we've covered so far.
Linked: Lesser Included Emails in Threads Must Be Produced, Court Rules — www.mikemcbrideonline.com Essentially, if you're not familiar with email threading, the idea is that if a group of people is sending emails back and forth by hitting the Reply button, and the previous email is copied into the body of the previous email, you don't really have to read each individual email. At some point, later emails have the entire conversation in them. This means that it's not necessary to read the "lesser included emails" because you already read them as part of the thread. But, the problem Judge Aaron describes is that while the text is there at the end of thread messages, you're missing important metadata that is unique to the individual message. As I said, having worked with Teams messages often I have seen this, where a transcript doesn't have all of the message metadata, especially the time/dates of each message versus the beginning or end of the chat. If you're creating those transcripts and not including each message in your production, you might be running afoul of your production requirements. But, as I said, IANAL, so don't take my word for it, do your own testing.
Know What You Want to Request in Discovery – Bow Tie Law — bowtielaw.com "duty to preserve"
Social Media
Social Media Is The Easy Scapegoat For Politicians Who Don’t Want To Deal With Actual Problems | Techdirt — www.techdirt.com The recent mass murders in Buffalo and Uvalde are sickening, horrifying, and extraordinarily frustrating. And part of that is because, as The Onion keeps having to point out, we live in a world where the underlying message is: ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens. And that is the most…
Everything You’ve Heard About Section 230 Is Wrong | WIRED — www.wired.com These hallowed 26 words shield internet companies from being held responsible for what people post and share. But the web’s most sacred law is a false idol.