Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #63
It’s been quite a week when it came to Twitter. I know quite a few folks are leaving, planning to leave, or at least keeping an eye on where it goes from here. I also realize that this newsletter is using Revue, which is owned by Twitter. Thus, I am one of those people keeping an eye on how things go. Regardless of what happens, the newsletter will continue to go out, even if it eventually comes from a different service. I’ll take the subscriber list with me though, so there is nothing for you to do but stay subscribed, whatever happens from here.
And if you know anyone interested in these topics who are leaving Twitter, maybe suggest they subscribe to the newsletter so they can keep up to date with everything we’re sharing in their inbox.
eDiscovery and Legal
Proportionality in eDiscovery is Ideal, but Difficult to Realize Without an Optimized Process | EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model - JDSupra — www.jdsupra.com Proportionality-based eDiscovery is a goal that all corporate litigants seek to attain. Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(1), parties may discover any non-privileged material...
Quick Thought - Law Firms as a Target — www.mikemcbrideonline.com I know we're all familiar with the fact that law firms make an inviting target for hackers, because we all have a ton of information about our clients,
Scary Stories about our Wicked Problems (Legal Nerd Halloween) | 3 Geeks and a Law Blog — www.geeklawblog.com Why law departments solve for the local optimum at the expense of the global optimum. Why pursue the path of least resistance.
Five Great Reads on Cyber, Data, and Legal Discovery for October 2022 — complexdiscovery.com ComplexDiscovery is an online publication that highlights cyber, data, and legal discovery insight and intelligence ranging from original research to aggregated news for use by cybersecurity, information governance, and eDiscovery professionals.
Workplace Culture and Careers
Is Your Organization "Well-being Washing"? — www.mikemcbrideonline.com I've heard of companies "green-washing" talking a good game about their work on climate change while also continuing to be a large contributor to it, but in the area of wellbeing, this was a new one. Except, it isn't a new idea. This study asked employees at UK companies if the public statements about mental health and employee support match what is happening within the company itself. Many said that the public supportiveness did not match the internal work culture. That's not anything new. I think we have all worked somewhere or have heard plenty of stories about workplaces where the public face of the company or even the internal HR face talks quite a lot about how much they focus on employee wellness but apparently, no one told the middle managers about it.
Quiet quitting: Workers aren’t quitting at all. Why are we calling it that? — slate.com This is the kind of thinking that lets employers take advantage of employees in the first place.
Social Media
Would you Pay to use Twitter? — www.mikemcbrideonline.com Tim leaves out of his analysis accounting for how many users will no longer be there and how that much smaller user base impacts the value proposition. If I'm a journalist using Twitter to interact with readers and attract new readers to my publication, the ROI of paying for a fully-featured Twitter account includes considering how many people it helps me reach. Is it still worth it when my 250,000 followers get cut to 25,000? What about 2,500? What about less? Before you dismiss that as unlikely, I'd like you to remember that recent Pew research found that "the top 25% of users by tweet volume produce 97% of all tweets, while the bottom 75% of users produce just 3%, according to an analysis conducted over a three-month period in 2021." I'm going to just assume that the 75% group who isn't tweeting very often is not going to pay for Twitter. Of the other 25% we have to consider how many of them will fall into the $12 per year plan because they already don't follow many people but use Twitter to interact with people who want to follow them. The question is, will those followers still exist? And if they don't exist, is Twitter still a global conversation? Or is it just another place for privileged people who pay for membership to talk to each other?
Linked - Why It's Virtually Impossible to Moderate Social Media Sites — www.mikemcbrideonline.com I'm sure at some point, Elon Musk thought for sure that he could buy Twitter and do a better job of content moderation. I'm sure most of us have had a similar thought. We just didn't have $44 billion lying around. He did, and now he gets to realize something the rest of us should know by now. There's no easy way to do it.
Mental Health
The top 12 things most people learn too late in life - Hack Spirit — hackspirit.com Life is short. If you’re not careful it can pass you by in the blink of an eye. Far too many people end up taking their last breath with a […] More
Council Post: How To Prioritize Employees’ Mental Health On Remote Teams — www.forbes.com It’s an ideal time to check in on your employees and make intentional choices about prioritizing their well-being.
It's The Time of the Year When We Need to Talk about Seasonal Affective Disorder — www.childabusesurvivor.net As I realize that those of us in the US will be turning the clocks back to standard time this weekend, and those of you in other Northern Hemisphere countries may have done the same last weekend, it's important to remind ourselves of what that time change, and change in the amount of daylight to follow, can mean for folks. So, I'm sharing a link and an image from the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) to remind us that SAD is a thing, and it can be mild and treated by taking some small actions, or it can truly interfere with living our lives and might require something more than eating healthier. Either way, keep this handy and know when the season might be affecting you.
Security and Privacy
Curbing Insider Threats Today Requires a Holistic Approach - OpenText Blogs — blogs.opentext.com October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. It’s important to exercise sound cybersecurity best practices to protect your organization’s sensitive and valuable information against outside hackers and cybercriminals that are always identifying new ways to get to your data. However, the biggest threats to your organization are often within your organization, not outside. While they are often …
How Microsoft works to grow the next generation of cyber defenders - Microsoft Security Blog — www.microsoft.com Microsoft is nurturing a diverse new generation of cybersecurity professionals through support for mentorship programs, scholarships, and more.