Category Archives: TechnoChic

Twitter 101: How to Search and Find People and Topics

The third post in the TIS Twitter 101 series discusses ways you can search for and find the people, topics, and tweets that interest you and relate to your marketing program for your solo professional services business.

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Twitter 101 for Solo Marketing: How to Sign Up For, and Set Up, a Twitter Account

Here’s how to sign up for and set up your Twitter account so you can get started implementing this powerful Social Media tool into your solo professional services marketing program. Part 2 of our “Twitter 101″ series.

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Kindle A Fire For Reading:
Do Busy Lawyers Need a New Way to Read?

I have to admit. I’m conflicted about Kindle, Amazon’s new(ish) digital book-reading gadget. It looks cool enough. But, two things are stopping me:

I remember the not-so-pleasant experience of reading digital books on Palm products. No, thanks.

I really love the feel of a book. An honest-to-goodness book, with paper and everything. Do I really want [...]

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RSS Day is May 1st:
Can You Read the Signs?

You’ll notice a new badge in the recently pared-down sidebar over there. It’s about RSS Day — May 1st — a web-wide occasion designed to encourage the vast majority of us who aren’t using RSS to get with the program.
It’s easy for the rest of us, who are decidedly in the minority even now, [...]

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The Couple That Vacations Together …

Sterling Okura commented on yesterday’s guest post by Stephanie Kimbro and linked to his own Biz Lift Blog, specifically a post about Traveling & Remote Working As a Couple.
I was so impressed with Sterling’s post that I promised in comments to plug it on the main page today, and I am. There’s something for just [...]

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Guest Post: Software as a Service for Solos (Ken Obel from Nextpoint)

Human beings show a stronger inclination to avoid loss than to generate a gain of the same or even greater value. This phenomenon, discussed in the work of Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman, is in fact the basis for a whole new branch of economics that has upended the “rational actor model” of classical economics.
Put [...]

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Considering Using FolderShare To Sync Computers/Files?
Read This First

Update: I got a response to this blog post — at least, I assume it was to this post, since I never responded to the last email. To read the latest, scroll down to the end.
To begin with, let me be frank: I don’t like using this blog as a platform for my own technical [...]

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Coming Up: Macs Practice Law Week!

In just 11 days, here at The Inspired Solo and at my good friend Finis Price’s excellent blog TechnoEsq. we’ll be having a party, and you’re invited.
This isn’t just any party, mind you. It’s a party with a purpose. We’re going to celebrate Macintosh computers as the amazing technological partners in law practice that [...]

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Mobile Office 101 From ABA TechShow’s “Best Articles”

Interested in taking your office on the go, or just making it a bit more mobile? “Your Office: Don’t Leave Home Without It” might be just the starting place for you. (It was recently plugged in a weekly ABA newsletter I received, although it’s dated November 2007.) Authors Brett Burney and Adriana Linares have gathered [...]

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Another Reason to Join ABA’s Law Practice Management Section: New Forums

If you aren’t a member of the American Bar Association — well, you’re not alone. More than one solo blogger has noted the historic organizational apathy towards solo lawyers in the ABA. That’s changing, though, I’m happy to report (even My Shingle’r Carolyn Elefant recently joined!).
Another nice change in the ABA: a somewhat slow but [...]

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