Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #50
In the last week I have probably had more conversations around burnout, stress and how to take breaks than ever, and it's something I have been writing about for a long time now. I'm encouraged that we took the time to talk about those issues with our ERG at work, and that the folks from Rampiva invited me to talk about those issues in their webinar. (link included below). We need to have those conversation, share the ideas and most of all make the changes that will allow all of us to have better mental health. Here's to this weekend being a break for you!
eDiscovery and Legal
Networking for Lawyers Made Simple — www.rocketmatter.com Learn simple ways of networking for lawyers and how rocket matter's contact management tool helps you manage your contacts.
Top eDiscovery Myths - BUSTED Whether you are an in-house team trying to budget for a pending investigation or a service provider scoping preservation and collection...
Information Governance is a Big Part of the Reason for the Emergence of Legal Ops — ipro.com
All Search Technologies Are Not Created Equal — blog.avansic.com Search term results need to be analyzed and used to craft targeted searches. Understanding different eDiscovery search technologies helps drive your success
Workplace Culture
Linked: Remote Work Helped Meta Achieve Diversity Goals Years Ahead of Schedule — www.mikemcbrideonline.com Something I've been thinking a lot about in the industries I have worked in has been this idea that remote and asynchronous work is something that makes it less likely that the only people we can hire are the ones who are both willing and able to dedicate their entire days to be in the office and also willing to jump in and do more work at any hour of the day and weekends. That eliminates a whole bunch of people from even applying, especially women with kids, neurodiverse and disabled candidates, and underrepresented groups without a large presence in the area where your office happens to be. (When you start a company in Silicon Valley, Seattle, Austin, or some other "hot" area, your candidate pool is limited to the people who live there now or are willing to move immediately.)
Gen Z employees have become the default office tech support—and they’re not happy about it — www.fastcompany.com According to a new survey, older workers often rely on younger colleagues for tech-related issues. In many cases, they could’ve just googled it.
Linked - Being Too Busy for Friends Won’t Help Your Career — www.mikemcbrideonline.com Reading this article was a little bit of a guilt trip, but one I probably need more than I am willing to admit. "Friendship matters. Everything we do to
Security and Privacy
New York Becomes First State to Mandate CLE in Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection — www.lawnext.com
The Intersection of Data & Intellectual Property: You Want to Share it, but How do You Protect it? | Taft Privacy & Data Security Insights Quite often, business data can be characterized as intellectual property. But you want to share your data with the world, or maybe just customers or
Mental Health
Talking Using Metrics to Fight For Your Team's Wellness on a Rampiva Webcast — www.mikemcbrideonline.com It was an interesting conversation, and I hope these conversations can help us in the eDiscovery industry think about employee wellness, mental health, diversity, and other issues that can result from doing things the way we've always done them. It's time for this conversation to be had across the industry. If this can spark more of that, I would be very happy.
The Mighty Podcast: Tips on Finding the Best Workplace for Your Mental & Physical Health — themighty.com In this special minisode, Mighty staff members Ashley Kristoff and Camara Rauen dive into the pros and cons of working from home or going to an office or dedicated workplace, and the impact both physical and mental health can have on those decisions.
How to Talk to Your Boss About Your Mental Health and Burnout — lifehacker.com Over the past few years, we’ve gotten much better as a culture at recognizing burnout at work. Though that doesn’t necessarily mean that we’ve made the changes necessary to address the root causes of burnout, even simply being able to identify when we’ve reached that point (or are about to) has been a step in the…
Social Media
We are the Distribution — www.mikemcbrideonline.com From Seth Godin's podcast recently "Going forward, I think we have to realize that the distributor is us. That the distributor, the person who is going to
As Expected, Facebook Is No Longer Interested In Paying News Orgs To Post News On Facebook That No One Wants | Techdirt — www.techdirt.com Just a few weeks we noted that this was inevitable, but Facebook has now made it official that it's no longer interested in dumping money on news publishers. "A lot has changed since we signed deals three years ago to test bringing additional news links to Facebook News in the U.S. Most people do not…