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Slaw Jobs

Posted on November 23, 2018
Slaw Jobs is a new Canadian legal job listing service that supports Slaw.ca.

Guide to Blood Alcohol Testing in Arizona

Posted on October 09, 2015
Stem client Lawrence Koplow recently published this comprehensive guide to blood alcohol testing in Arizona. The guide includes extensive explanations and images of the processes and equipment used to test blood alcohol levels in suspected DUI cases.

Rebounding from a Job Loss After Injury

Posted on September 18, 2015
Stem client Frank Van Dyke has a new website, and with it, a new blog. One of the first posts is on how to respond to a job loss when you've been in an accident.Injury law blogging is tough to do well. Lots of lawyers finish their posts with an "injured? call now!" approach, rather than trying to be helpful...

How To Find All* The Categories on a Google+ Business Page

Posted on July 10, 2015
via Whitespark.

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10 Tools to Combine, Mix, Blend Multiple RSS Feeds

Posted on June 10, 2015

The 13 Best Yahoo Pipes Alternatives You Should Look at Today

Posted on June 10, 2015

Can Reading Make You Happier?

Posted on June 10, 2015
Fascinating piece in The New Yorker on the growing field of bibliotherapy.

Brainstorming Doesn't Work; Try This Technique Instead

Posted on March 26, 2015
Turns out we've all been doing brainstorming wrong; this article from Fast Company tells us how to be significantly more effective through "brainwriting".(hat tip to Gerry Riskin)

How to unshorten and shorten links

Posted on March 20, 2015
"You might be familiar with shortened links from social media or email. They?re handy for keeping things tidy and within a character limit, but you can?t see what you?re clicking on. What if the link is malicious or just a waste of time? Turn that short link into a long link with unshort...

Summer Student Training: How Much Is Too Much?

Posted on March 18, 2015
Tips from Susannah Tredwell for designing a summer student training program, via Slaw.ca. The only thing I'd add is to show the students where the candy jar is, too -- gives them an extra reason to come to the library :)

Five Ways to Revive Your LinkedIn Profile

Posted on March 13, 2015
Great post from Joan Feldman of Attorney at Work on making your LinkedIn profile as effective as possible. Find some great tips in #4 if you have a common name that makes you hard to find in Google.

Schedule Google Calendar Events Directly From Your Google Search Page

Posted on July 21, 2014
Very slick!(via Search Engine Land)

Lawrence Koplow on Arizona DUI Charges

Posted on July 17, 2014
Stem client Lawrence Koplow, a Phoenix DUI lawyer, was consulted for an article on azcentral.com, West Valley police get new DUI enforcement tools, on what penalties drivers can face if charged with DUI in Arizona.

What kind of library user are you?

Posted on June 10, 2014
Neat quiz from PewResearch Internet Project:"Are you a ?Library Lover?? An ?Information Omnivore?? Or are you totally ?Off the Grid?? Take our library engagement quiz to learn how your library habits and attitudes stack up against the general population...

Relevanssi

Posted on June 04, 2014
Relevanssi. Plugin to improve default site search functionality in Wordpress.

Atlantic on Sleep Deprivation Culture

Posted on May 16, 2014
 Thomas Edison and the Cult of Sleep Deprivation

Florida Criminal Records FAQ -- Why a Firefighter was Denied Record Sealing

Posted on May 16, 2014
via Ron Chapman's Florida Criminal Records FAQ.

Say Good-bye to Facebook email addresses

Posted on February 24, 2014
Remember when Facebook changed everyone's email to ___@facebook.com? According to the verge, that service is about to die. Users are getting notified over the coming days, and going forward, emails should route to your default email address registered on FB.

Ontario Closing Costs

Posted on January 10, 2014
Frost Law has a summary of closing costs for real estate purchase & sales in Ontario.

DUI Case Involving Driver trying to Save Dying Cat

Posted on January 09, 2014
Ron Chapman has an interesting post up on a DUI conviction where the driver was rushing a dying cat to the vet-hospital. While the driver was convicted under Florida DUI laws, he might not have been if it was a person involved.

2013 Clawbies Nomination Period is now open

Posted on December 05, 2013
Visit the Clawbies.ca website & help spread the word!

Lessig: MIT Report re: Aaron Swartz

Posted on August 13, 2013
"The report says that MIT never told the prosecutor that Aaron?s access was ?unauthorized.""..."The whole predicate to the government?s case was that Aaron?s access to the network was ?unauthorized,? yet apparently in the many many months during which the government was prosecuting, they were too busy to determine whether indeed, access to the network was ?authorized...

Geist on Verizon, Privacy & Risk

Posted on August 13, 2013
Geist: "The privacy issues associated with Verizon are significant and deserve a full airing. Yet in an effort to score points with the public, opponents of their entry to Canada should come clean on their own practices and acknowledge that seemingly none are able to provide assurances that Canadians are not currently subject to extensive surveillance activities...

Enviro-friendly & Cloud Technology

Posted on June 18, 2013
From the Google Blog: "migrating all U.S. office workers to the cloud could save up to 87 percent of IT energy use?about 23 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, or enough to power the city of Los Angeles for a year."

Pew Internet: Tablet Ownership Numbers in 2013

Posted on June 14, 2013
Pew Internet: "Tablet adoption has almost doubled over the past year. A third of American adults now own a tablet computer, including almost half of those ages 35-44 and a majority of those in higher income households. "

How to use new media to access old media

Posted on March 07, 2011
From colleague Jordan Furlong.

John Marshall Expands NJ Pretrial Intervention Guide

Posted on February 15, 2011
The Law Offices of John Marshall have extended their website guide on the topic of New Jersey Pre-trial Intervention. The NJ PTI program permits an individual to avoid prosecution for a criminal offense by successfully completing a period of supervision (i...

Scuttle | Download Scuttle software for free at SourceForge.net

Posted on December 17, 2010
Possible Delicious replacement."Web-based social bookmarking system. Allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favourite links online."

Location Matters Up in the Cloud

Posted on December 15, 2010
from Michael Geist

Legal Project Management - The Next New Area for Paralegals to Conquer?

Posted on December 15, 2010
via The Estrin Report

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