Mike McBride

Mike McBride has been blogging since 2001, starting with what was, in essence, a blog about technology and being a One-Man IT Department. Over the years, his career has taken some twists and turns, as well as my interests, so now you will find blog posts covering everything from Social Networking, Law firms and Litigation Support, Travel, Training and yes, he's still writing about technology! He's even branched out into Photography and Sports Talk.

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How to Retain Top Legal Tech Employees in Today’s Market Self-Service or Full-Service eDiscovery? Fill ‘Er Up! Even with Advanced Technology, You Still Need the Soft Skills of eDiscovery Simone Biles Refused To Be A Work Martyr. You Should, Too. Five Great Reads on Cyber, Data, and Legal Discovery for July 2021 How the Pandemic Has Revolutionized Discovery Collection How to Prepare Your Law Firm for Hurricanes and Other Natural Disasters New Resources to Combat …
As a manager, you are in the best position to notice, and help directs when they are struggling with mental health. Unfortunately, I’m also betting that any business management, or leadership, classes you’ve taken never mentioned mental health, let alone taught you much about it.… Read More The post Linked: Mental health check-ins appeared first on Mike McBride Online. If you want to see more like this, consider subscribing to the RSS Feed.…
So, if you are a firm with Morgan Stanley as a client, maybe the easy thing is to just say “hey, our huge client wants us back in the office and wants to have in-person meetings, so you’ve got to come back”. But it’s never really that simple, is it? What do you do if your staff and lawyers really don’t want to be in the office full-time? What if some of the same people…
Let me fix it for you, what JPMorgan is really doing, is weeding out anyone who might actually want to work differently than the way Wall Street has always worked. It’s almost like they have no interest in actual diversity, employee mental health, or work-life balance. Of course, we know they don’t. Wealth Management isn’t about the people who work for you, it’s about how much money they bring in, period.… Read More The post…
Will lawyers continue to be averse to technology post-pandemic? A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Normal Websites With Hardcore Porn – Video site goes under, domain gets picked up by porn company, old embeds are not what they used to be.. #linkrot Three Signs that Your Workplace Culture Values Mental Health Inside the Industry That Unmasks People at Scale You Really Do Need to Take a Break for Your Mental Health Don’t Wanna Pay …
That combination of things points to one, larger, issue. There’s a pretty large communication gap between IT and business users. The security restrictions that exist are getting in the way of people getting work done, and rather than ask for them to be changed, users simply work around them using their own tools, maybe even their own laptops, or network connections, and the IT folks don’t even know this is happening. That’s a recipe for…
Yeah, no one ever misuses these kinds of tools, right? Nope, nothing to worry about here, they are only ever used to target bad guys. You have nothing to fear from them. Whatever.… Read More The post Linked: Spyware meant to track terrorists was used against journalists, too appeared first on Mike McBride Online. If you want to see more like this, consider subscribing to the RSS Feed.…
The research just proves that we already know from first-hand experience, right? We’ve all been in back-to-back meetings, leaving one Microsoft Teams or Zoom call just to click the link to another, and it’s obvious which team members have done that and aren’t mentally prepared for the current meeting. We all know it. We all schedule our meeting to end at 25 or 55 past the hour so that we don’t make people do that,…
Emojis Are Still Stumping E-Discovery Software Providers and Practitioners Why You Need to Take Your Vacation Time ITAD: IT asset disposal is a security risk to take seriously – Consumers should also be thinking about disposing of old tech True Stories: A Woman Lawyer Speaks Up About Her Anxiety Integration Makes Teams Most Difficult Office 365 Application to Backup Do you answer emails outside work hours? Do you send them? New research shows how dangerous …
t’s also about being respected enough to allow our work to actually fit into the rest of our lives, as opposed to having it interfere with the rest of our lives. Human beings have boundaries between their work and the rest of their lives. Numbers on a financial sheet are generally not provided that level of respect and concern. Which one would best describe the people who work for you in the culture you have…