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Solo Tip Tuesday: Acronym Finder Explains Abbreviations

by Reba Nance on March 19, 2013

The other day I was reading an article titled “10 Simple Things SMB Websites Need to Fix before SEO.” I knew SEO meant search engine optimization, but I wasn’t sure about SMB. I quickly pulled up one of my favorite websites—Acronym Finder. I typed SMB in the box at the top-middle of the page and [...]

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Solo Tip Tuesday: Free Full-Text Online Law Review and Journal Search

by Reba Nance on February 19, 2013

Check out the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center’s (LTRC) search engine for law review and law journals. A no-cost service, this search engine finds the full-text of more than 400 online law reviews and law journals, as well as document repositories hosting academic papers and related publications such as Congressional Research Service reports. This [...]

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Solo Tip Tuesday: Find Historical Stock Quotes

by Reba Nance on January 22, 2013

Maybe you’re gathering the information you need to file your tax return. Maybe you’re working on a divorce settlement that includes stocks. Perhaps you’re interested in following a stock you’re considering adding to your personal portfolio. In these scenarios, it is helpful to know what a stock was worth on a particular date. Most of [...]

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Phishing Season Never Ends in Cyberspace

by Brenda L. Speer on September 17, 2012

On the email listserv for the Colorado Bar Association‘s Solo and Small Firm Section there have been postings lately relating to phishing scams. These postings are by colleagues asking for sanity checks or confirmation of their suspicions that an email inquiry from a potential client is a scam. So far, they’ve all been phishing scams. [...]

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The New Casemaker Launched by Colorado Bar

by David Harriman on July 30, 2012

Earlier this month, the CBA introduced its members to the New Casemaker. This is Casemaker’s substantial upgrade from its 2.2 version research service. With enhanced performance capabilities and exciting new features, the New Casemaker further simplifies the way you research. It makes conducting a search, narrowing your results, and organizing your work easier than ever. [...]

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Facebook Chronicles: The Ordeal

by Barb Cashman on June 19, 2012

Whoa, we’re still in the cave, and now it’s ogre time! Or not. But this is no cake walk; in fact, the definition of ordeal is “a difficult or painful experience, especially one that severely tests character or endurance.” Sounds pretty mythic in proportion, no? Let’s get started – this is about taking “networking” to [...]

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Who’s Afraid of LegalZoom?

by Brenda L. Speer on June 12, 2012

Not this solo in Colo. A recent blog post titled “LegalZoom’s War on GPs and Solos” by Larry Bodine on his LawMarketing Blog commented on LegalZoom’s recent IPO filing. Larry stated that LegalZoom “is capitalizing on consumers’ willingness to buy cheap, do-it-yourself forms as opposed to paying a lawyer to do the job right in [...]

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Facebook Chronicles: Tests, Allies, and Enemies

by Barb Cashman on May 30, 2012

In the last post we crossed the threshold, which means we have finally committed to “the journey.”  Now we face certain obstacles, remember Homer’s “Odyssey”– or maybe you’re thinking of the more current rendition of it,  “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” So – away we go!  Let’s look at some of our “tests” first.  Unlike [...]

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Solo Tip Tuesday: Remotely Share Screens and Collaborate on Documents for Free with Join.me

by Reba Nance on May 15, 2012

You may have heard of WebEx and Go to Meeting, or even participated in a session using these tools. When connected to the Internet, both allow you to see someone else’s screen and are used for document review and collaboration, demonstrations of anything that can be displayed on a computer screen, software training, remote tech [...]

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Solo Tip Tuesday: Use Print Preview to Avoid Printing Unnecessary Pages

by Sara Crocker on April 3, 2012

Printing from a Web page can be frustrating because you never know what’s actually going to print. You might get 10 sheets with each frame on a separate page, have two inches of text cut off on one side, find out that it prints eight pages, when you only wanted the information on page three, [...]

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