Join Kraft Kennedy’s Rich Westle for an ILTA webinar entitled “Leveraging SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office to Expedite Proposal Development”.
When:Friday, February 10, 2012
Time:12:00 – 1:00 Eastern
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ANSOR Legal Marketing and Experience Suite helps law firms of all sizes maximize their Microsoft investment while accelerating the proposal development process. ANSOR Proposal Generation Center built on the power of Microsoft Office and SharePoint delivers a robust set of Legal Marketing Components that allow your firm to develop, manage, and deploy approved marketing content. The webinar will focus on how firms can quickly generate unique, high quality proposals and marketing content as well as delivering new capabilities in collaboration, workflow, and access to experience content.
Presenter:
Rich Westle. a management consultant with Kraft Kennedy, leads solution development and product strategy for ANSOR Software, and has been involved in leading teams to deliver SharePoint based solutions to the legal market since 2004. Rich has been a featured speaker in the area of developing law firm experience management systems, most recently at the LexisNexis Redwood Analytics conference and Gensler Legal Market Summit.
Currently I am using a Dell Latitude E6410 with an SSD drive as my main work computer. I also carry an iPad. I used to use my laptop for all my computing needs when away from my desk. Ever since I received my iPad, I would estimate that this split is closer to 30/70 in favor of the iPad. I still need or want my laptop around when I need to do things like document production, remote access into clients’ systems, etc., but every time I pick it up, I can’t help compare it to the iPad.
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Join Kraft Kennedy’s Joe Hoegler for an ILTA Webinar entitled “Exchange 2010 Ecosystem”. The webinar will focus on the native features of Microsoft Exchange 2010, including high availability, disaster recovery, antivirus and antispam functionality, unified messaging and more. You’ll also hear guidelines and tips on integrating Exchange with SharePoint 2010, Office 2010 and Lync Server 2010.
When: Friday, February 24, 2012
Time: 12:00-1:00 Eastern
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Presenter BIO:
Joe Hoegler is the Practice Leader of Kraft Kennedy’s Infrastructure and Enterprise Systems Practice Group. He provides technical leadership and strategic guidance on client engagements involving a broad range of law firm technologies and is responsible for directing technology strategy and providing technical management at the firm. As of December 2011, he has led or advised over 35 law firm clients totaling over 35,000 users on projects related to Exchange 2010, ranging in size from 30 to 6,000 users. Joe is a Microsoft Certified Master on Exchange 2010, one of only approximately 50 people worldwide who hold this certification.
On most nights, I manage to go home with an empty inbox. The 50 or so e-mails that I receive during my commute home and into the evening are almost always gone before my head hits the pillow. While I know lots of people who receive more e-mail than I do — I usually get between 250 and 450 messages per day — I manage to maintain a perfectly empty inbox without deleting a single e-mail, without filing a single e-mail, and while retaining the ability to find any e-mail I’ve ever sent or received in a matter of seconds. How do I do it? It’s actually pretty simple.
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Yesterday there was a significant event impacting a large “cloud” service provider. An Internet file sharing service known as MegaUpload was seized by the government. All of its assets (including data) were taken by the government and the site is no longer available. You can read more about this here: http://bit.ly/xuj2eS. MegaUpload offers a service similar to DropBox and other file sharing services, allowing users to upload and share files with one another.
While the details of this specific seizure are clear, this event should serve as a reminder of one of the risks associated with cloud/SaaS/Hosted providers. If the government targets a service that your firm uses, all of the data you store could disappear in an instant. Possible services include file sharing services, firm website hosting services, online backup systems and even nfrastructure as a service firms. When evaluating the cloud these concerns should be taken into consideration and understood. Your firm might not be doing anything wrong, but could suffer greatly if someone else is and the government decides to intervene.
Join Kraft Kennedy’s Management Consultant Rich Westle and Duane Morris’ Marketing Manager Cheryl Disch for a panel dicussion entitled “Leveraging SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office to Expedite Proposal Development” during the Microsoft Super Session at LegalTech New York 2012.
Legal Tech New York
New York Hilton – 2nd Floor – Gibson Suite
Wednesday, February 1st
10:30am-11:30am
Leveraging SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office to Expedite Proposal Development
Duane Morris, a worldwide firm with more than 600 attorneys across 12 primary practice areas, has seen a significant increase in the need to deliver a higher volume of unique proposals. In response, the firm has implement ANSOR Proposal Generation Center, ANSOR Experience Management System, and ANSOR Marketing Content Library. These solutions, implemented on the SharePoint 2010 Server platform and Microsoft Office platform, have helped Duane Morris increase the number of unique and high quality proposals and marketing content, as well as delivering new capabilities in collaboration, reporting, workflow and access to experience content.
Speakers:
- Rich Westle- Solution Director/ANSOR Software, Management Consultant/Kraft Kennedy
Rich Westle leads solution development and product strategy for ANSOR Software, and has been involved in leading teams to deliver SharePoint based solutions to the legal market since 2004. Rich has been a featured speaker in the area of developing law firm experience management systems, most recently at the LexisNexis Redwood Analytics conference and Gensler Legal Market Summit.
- Cheryl Disch- Sr Manager, Marketing Information Systems/Duane Morris
My wife recently got me an Apple TV as a Christmas gift over the holidays. It’s a great little device. It attaches to your home network either via WiFi or via direct Ethernet connection and can be used to stream content to your TV. At home, we use it to rent movies and stream our iTunes music and photos. It has another excellent feature called AirPlay which lets you display content from your iPhone or iPad onto your television. At home, this is useful for playing games and showing web pages on the TV. But I got to thinking, what if we had one of these in the office connected to our conference room projector?
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One of the shortcomings of Apple’s iOS devices (as of iOS 5.0.1) is the inability to recognize message priority flags. So if a user with an iPhone receives a message that has been sent with high priority, there is no native feature in the iOS operating system that will alert the recipient to the fact that they have such a message. However, for iOS users who utilize Microsoft Exchange for their corporate email, there is a way to bring special attention to messages sent with high priority via SMS.
The first step is to create a contact that will serve as the recipient for the SMS message. You will need to consult the settings for your particular carrier to find the format for this address. For AT&T users, the format will be [10-digit phone number]@txt.att.net. Once the contact is created, create an email rule similar to the one below:
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SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act. On January 18, 2012, from approximately 8am to 8pm EST, many internet sites will be turning themselves off in protest. There are many articles and sites devoted to this and you can read a few of them via the links below.
If you are using the internet tomorrow and stumble upon a site that is participating in the blackout, you will need to either wait until the blackout is over or find another source for the information you are searching. The simplest solution may be to use google or bing’s cache functionality to see a previous copy of the data.
Read more at:
http://sopastrike.com/
http://www.webpronews.com/sopa-blackout-set-for-january-18th-heres-all-the-info-2012-01
http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/22/2648219/stop-online-piracy-act-sopa-what-is-it
Recently I assisted a client in reviewing their Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, which is always an interesting exercise. The first step was helping them understand the products included in the renewal and helping them understand the licensing of those products. This particular client had a mix of Windows Server Standard and Enterprise, but no Data Center licenses. Based upon our conversation they will now evaluate their usage to see if leveraging the Microsoft Step-Up program and converting the licenses would be beneficial. For this client, there is likely a short-term and long-term benefit to doing so.
The other interesting item we discussed was their significant under-utilization of the software assurance and Enterprise Agreement perks. While there are 15 different types of benefits available to them, they have only minimally taken advantage of these benefits with only 2 months left on their existing agreement. Some of these benefits, such as Home Use program and TechNet subscriptions, will carry over to their next agreement. Others, however, are “use it or lose it” and will expire when the current agreement expires.
The value of these benefits is still there, however, and I have encouraged the client to focus on taking advantage of them over the next 2 months. For example, they have a bunch of e-learning and training voucher options available, and they are entitled to 9 days of Planning Services. Planning Services are are $1000/day vouchers that can be used to offset the cost of a qualified consulting firm to assist in planning a desktop deployment project, Exchange project or a SharePoint project. As these benefits are “use it or lose it,” they have only 2 months remaining to take advantage of the days before they expire. With their next agreement, of course, they will receive approximately another 9 days of Planning Services to use, but unless they are able to take advantage of their current vouchers, they will have failed to take full advantage of the benefits to which they are entitled under their Microsoft agreement.
I encourage you to take the time to understand your license agreements and the benefits they offer. If you need assistance, talk to your LAR, VAR, purchasing group or the vendor.
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