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Practice Management - Technology
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Web
Website Sticker Shock (part 1 of 3)
The real cost is double what you think. Find out the hidden costs of developing and maintaining a web site before you jump in with a "me, too!"
Have You Considered All These Options for Increasing Ad Revenues on Your Web Site?
Looking for ways to help offset the cost of developing and maintaining your Web site? Ads don't all have to scream and shout.
Does Your Law Firm's Home Page Meet Bar Standards?
Will other states follow suit and institute guideliness for web advertising like Florida and Texas did?
An Accountant's First Web Site
Yes, you need one. But it needs to be more than a brochure. Content is king.
Firms fuel interest in their Web sites with wit and humor
A client-friendly image with a light touch is generating business for some firms.
Siskind's Top Twenty Law Firm Web Sites
Hyperlinked list from The Lawyer's Guide to Marketing on the Internet. Notice that useful content is what distinguishes these sites.
Intranets
Webmaster Magazine's Intranet Case Studies
Whether you have an Intranet or are thinking about one, these case studies can help you learn what works and what to avoid. Classic case studies collection is unique on the Net.
Firm Creates Intranet Newsletter
Whether a small firm or a large one, web-based newsletters can save you a lot in printing costs.
What's an Intranet?
Answered in simple, non-technical terms the lay person can understand.
Why Your Law Firm Will Need an Intranet
There are law firms out there trying to figure out how this technology can work to their competitive advantage, rather than figuring out why it can't. Can you afford to be left behind?
10 Intranet Myths
Intranets are all the rage. Are they as expensive as you've read? Are they only for big firms? Do they really belong in the IS department? Read this and decide for yourself (Hint: the answers are probably ``no").
Building a Corporate Intranet
Spend an evening with this educational online seminar and you'll be ready to lock horns with the technology whizzes in your firm the next morning.
Netscape's Airius Intranet Model
Visit Netscape's model intranet to see how they work and imagine how an intranet might be used to help strengthen communication of information across traditional departmental lines in your firm.
The Intranet: Slashing the Cost of Business
IDC's much cited study of how an intranet significantly reduces the routine costs of doing business, producing an ROI of up to 1000%.
Extranets
Enter the Extranet
What organizations can gain from including outsiders, such as vendors and selected clients, in their Intranets.
Extranets: A New Way to Reach Customers, Partners and Suppliers.
This hybrid, external intranet will permit selected parties to penetrate your firewall and access information normally reserved for employees. Just how is that a good thing. Read.
The External Web: Extranets
A succinct presentation of some of the types of information that businesses make available to their outside partners on an extranet.
Technology and the Business
A Survey of Technology in Finance
The Economist Magazine's thoughtful and thorough article on how networks challenge conventional business models and their importance for commerce and finance in the future.
What Do Network/Systems Managers Now Earn?
If you are shocked by the cost of new professional staff, wait till you see these figures!
What's Hot and What's Not in Law Office Technology
Here are the options for Managing Partners and Administrators to watch closely.
Virtual Corporations, Human Issues & Information Technology
With flex hours and homebound workers and telecommuting, firms are becoming more "virtual". See how some businesses monitor their off-site workers.
The Virtual Law Firm Described
If you are thinking about ways to incorporate technology, this bare bones article might give you some good ideas.
Computer-Based Training
It's one of the best investments your firm can make.
Internet Brings CPAs More Business and Better Communication
CCH Study reveal a surprising number of accountants using the Internet, and using it for business.
'Giant Brains' Are Thinking Ahead -- Professional services companies are often among the early adopters of new technology
When most of your assets are knowledge assets, it makes sense that technology can be a point of competitive differentiation.
People, Not Technology Only
Stories of five leading companies, whose secret is not strictly technology, but how they manage their work forces.
Wiring the "New Organization": Integrating Collaborative Technologies and Team-Based Work
Interesting academic paper on building a flat, technology-rich organization.
Dave Barry in Cyberspace
Emoticons: Using Internet "Shorthand"--How You Can Be As Original As Everyone Else. Just the laugh break you needed. |
