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Last week members sought and offered recommendations for tools of every kind. This week’s ILTACON TV highlight features innovative thought leader, David Cunningham. Explore curated sources on these topics including some from ILTA’s treasure chest.

Tools for This, That and the Other Thing

In law firms and corporate law department we need tools for editing, managing content, securing content, analyzing contracts, collaboration, research, training and measuring competencies, MDM, logging threats… ILTA offers shootouts, presentations on best use cases, comparison documents and more. To follow the theme of ILTA’s most recent white paper, Potpourri: A Little Bit of Everything, I have compiled a “potpourri” of comparisons and reviews of tools from your peers.

• “Can We See What They See? A Preview of Law Department Analytics Tools and Metrics” from the most recent financial management white paper and its companion piece from ILTACON 2016.
• “Learning Management System Wild West Shootout!”
• “It’s a Multifactor Authentication Shootout!”
• “Mimecast vs. Proofpoint Comparison”
• “Dot Your I’s and Cross Your T’s with the Right Document Proofreading Software”
• “IP Law Technology Essentials”
• “Incident and Event Log Monitoring: Pros and Cons of In-House, Outsource and Hybrid”
• “20 Useful Apps from the MS Garage”
• “Exchange On-Premises vs. Exchange Online – A Law Firm Bakeoff”
• “Mobile Device Management Shootout”
• Discussion groups in the Communities always share opinions with real-life experience using products. Search for a tool or product name from ILTA’s home page and see what you find. Be sure to sign in to access more content.

ILTACON TV Highlights – David Cunningham on Solutions to Today’s Problems

During ILTACON 2016, Candi Smith caught up with her CIO, David Cunningham of Winston & Strawn, for an interview on ILTACON TV. David reminds us to be thankful of our position in legal. In the video, he discussed the importance of data and the unique position for IT as the keepers of the data. He hopes all will take advantage of the data to develop better and more efficient processes for lawyers. For access to all ILTACON TV interviews, visit the ILTACON TV page.

SOMETHING EXTRA – Thankful for the Tip of the Week

Perhaps those of you not in the U.S. like the Thanksgiving holiday for a respite from the emails and phone calls from your U.S. colleagues. For those of us in the U.S., we often ask ourselves and others at Thanksgiving to fill in the blank in, “I am thankful for _________.” I would fill my blank in with ILTA’s Tip of the Week. Have you read the Tip of the Week lately? It always contains useful tips and tricks to make a day at the office a little easier. If you subscribe to the User Support Services Community or the Desktop & Application Services Community you will receive the tip each week. You can also visit the ILTA Tips Blog for all past tips.

As ILTA’s content curator, I’m always monitoring the discussion forums to discover what topics are top-of-mind among the members. Each week, I focus on a few areas that spark your interest, and I provide some curated resources to assist your own information-gathering on the topics. If there are specific topics you would like assistance exploring, please contact me at joanne@iltanet.org