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Are you going? 

ILTA is having a NEW YORK REGION SOCIAL EVENT in midtown Manhattan. 

Date:  October 25, 2007
           6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Appetizers and Drinks Sponsored by:   mindSHIFT Technologies and Interwoven

Location: Cellar Bar at the Bryant Park Hotel
                 40 W 40th St. between Fifth and Sixth Aves
                 New York, NY  90071
                 Host:  Steve Skidmore

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Although LawyerKM likes the idea of enterprise RSS, we know that many firms are not ready to go there. Will the lawyers use it? Is it worth the investment? Don’t get us started. Most of us here have resorted to Google Reader, which we love. We often wish that Google would make an enterprise version of it; but, we’re not holding our collective breath.

We’re such big fans of GReader, that we were shocked to see that Google added a search box – the lack of which we always found strange. [PC World agrees] How could Google — the search giant that it is — fail to have a search function in its RSS reader?

Even more shocking is that we didn’t notice that the search function has been there for a couple of weeks now. It has something to do with the fact that we’ve been really busy and also because we all have the Reader on our iGoogle pages – so we don’t really open GReader (proper) very often.

Well, we’re happy to see it. A belated welcome and thank you.

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As we reported back in April, Google had been planning to launch a PowerPoint killer an addition to Google Docs.  Well, they did it.  Google Presentations is the online collaborative slide show application, which launced yesterday.  Here is a good summary of some of the features. 

“Death by Google Presentations” just doesn’t sound as good as “Death by PowerPoint.” (Special thanks to Dilbert): 

But just think, with online collaboration the whole premeditation and conspiracy of preparing slide shows with this killer app may result in federal — if not international – offenses.  

In all seriousness, we wonder if law firms will use a suite of Docs, Spreadsheets, and now Presentations on the web.  Will security be too much of an issue?  Or will we continue to send drafts around via email?  Is there a place for a secure, web-based, collaboration suite so that law firms with multiple offices can feel safe about real-time, online collaboration?  Is anyone doing this? Thoughts?  Please comment and let us know. 

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We really can’t get enough of the Common Craft Videos in Plain English. They just completed Google Docs in Plain English, which is fantastic. Google seems to love them too – they link to the video in their blog. Google Docs is also pretty fantastic. Who doesn’t love the idea of online document collaboration?

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