Wisconsin Small Firm, Solo and Technology Conference Recap

Another successful year at revamped and renamed Wisconsin Small Firm, Solo and Technology Conference.  I had the honor to present on the subject of email with Art Saffran and Rick Borstein.  Art discussed organizing and searching email as well as spam prevention.  Rick discussed email archiving in the new Adobe Acrobat 8.0.  I spoke on a grab bag of email subjects including hosting and blacklist as well as organizing email in case management systems and document mangement systems.  More on our presentation.

There was lots of traffic at the ITP booth with many old friends dropping by.  If I had to name a few areas that people were particularly interested in, I would say remote access and billing systems – especially PCLaw.  Over the next few days I will post some thoughts on both of these subjects.

Junk Emails from Good Intentioned People

How many of us get those e-mails from our clients and friends that are of terrible, unbelievable things – - DO NOT DELETE, PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW, PLEASE FORWARD IMMEDIATELY and so on and so forth.  You know the ones I am talking about, they always include some horrifically graphic photo of something or other.  Well, did you know that if you go to www.snopes.com and plug in the regarding line of that email or any keyword, the site will likely be able to find the email you are referring to and tell you if it is true, false or if there is anything known about it at all.  It’s a great place when inquiring minds need to know …