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ABA TECHSHOW Road Show at the Massachusetts Bar Association on Feb 11

As the Chair of the Tech Core Group of the ABA's Law Practice  Management Section (such a mouthful) I'm really happy to tell you about the very first ABA TECHSHOW Road Show. It's being held at the Massachusetts Bar Association on Wednesday on February 11 - read the announcement here. We have really exciting sessions being delivered by REALLY exciting speakers...check this out:

• The Mobile Office: Take Your Desktop in Your Pocket by Paul Unger and Debbie Foster
• New Resources and Personal Knowledge Management by Catherine Sanders Reach and me (yes I consider myself an exciting speaker - someone has to or my self-esteem would be shot!)
• Shock and Awe: PowerPoint for Opening Statements and Closing Arguments by Paul Unger and Catherine Sanders Reach
• Turbocharge Your Practice With Affordable Technology | Alan Klevan and Rodney Dowell
• PDF-ing for Lawyers by Debbie Foster and me again!
• Look Who’s Talking! What Lawyers Need to Know about Digital Dictation and Speech Recognition by (the most exciting!) Jim Calloway and Dave Bilinsky
• The Lawyer’s Guide to Managing Client and Case Information with Outlook by Debbie Foster and me
• Accidentally Successful: How to Tell if You and Your Firm are Making Money by Jim Calloway and Dave Bilinsky

Two separate but simultaneous lunch sessions will feature 60 Tips and 60 Sites in 60 minutes. Get more details and register here. Hope to see you there. And don't forget to register for the BIG SHOW...ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago April 2-4.

Tech tools you should check out...

As you might imagine, I get a lot of tips and leads to tech services and products - both legal and general. I try to tinker with as much as I can, but I can't touch everything. Of course I have my favorites, which I write about first-hand. But who I am to say that you should only do as I do? Not this girl! So here are a few tools for you to check out on your own. I don't use them myself, but you should see if they might fit into any holes you have.

A gentleman named Joe read our Technolawyer article about VoIP and wrote to tell me about a service he likes called JaJah Web-Activated Telephony. Interestingly, this service allows you to enter the number you want to call on their webpage, then it calls your phone and connects the call for you so you don't need any special hardware or phones.

A lady named Andrea Cannavina also read our TechnoLawyer column - she wrote me to point out a typo. And well she should have, as pointing out typo's is her specialty. If you're a solo or small firm and need some help around the virtual office, check out her services at LegalTypist, a full service legal secretarial outsourcing solution.

Along the same service lines, I know several people who use CyberSecretaries and love it.

Are you suffering from Too-Much-Email-Syndrome? If so and if you use Outlook, take a look at SpeedFiler, it helps you organize incoming email messages.

It's a small world out there and the legal tech world is even smaller. This past Saturday I was at a very cool art party in Winter Park where I ran into Buzz Bruggeman of ActiveWords, a tool designed to help automate your Windows needs.