50 practical technology tips for working remotely crowd sourced from the LSNTAP email list and community. This is a special working from home edition of one of our most popular webinars.
In this webinar you'll learn about the following topics:
- Online free and low cost web apps for legal work
- Companies offering free versions of the best tools during this crisis
- Ways to collaborate better online
There will be a takeaway list of all tips with links available also
- Search for “X Product / service” + Covid
- PandaDoc Free Covid
Video
- Jitsi - private and secure video conferencing
- Zoom
- Discord text chat, and audio chat, free noise suppression
- Marco Polo - Video messages on Apple and Android
- Loom Free Screen Recording Chrome Extension, very easy to use.
- Open Broadcast Studio OBS - Free Streaming software for any platform
- How to stream to Facebook live
Collaborating
- Slack collaborative work space
- Box Secure file sharing with lots of integrations
- Microsoft Teams, all in one internal collaborations, chat, video and much more
- KanbanFlow -Free agile project management software very easy to use and track tasks
- Monday - Robust project management with lots of steps and easy to use
Learning online
- Tech Soups Courses - Free nonprofit track that includes a Teams how to course
- Pluralsight - high quality online training courses Free in April
- Tech & Learning - classic blog focusing on technology and learning tools. Lots of helpful tips, quick reads with practical takeaways.
- Article on avoiding pain at home techlearning.com/how-to/how-to-teach-from-home-pain-free
- Meetup online - Use Meetup to create and promote online learning events
Home Office
- Chair
- Adjustable height
- Back Support
- Arm support
- Noise Cancelling Headphones: $70 to $300
- Shredder @Home 10 sheets plus
- Docking station
- Video / Second or better monitor
- Storage
- Ethernet port optional
- Extra USB
- Power
- Phone Book -Foot rest
- Work Only profile -
- Ring Doorbell - get your door bell on your phone with video, save time not having to answer the door for deliveries.
- 1Password- Indefinite trails great password management and sharing
- SignRequest - Simplefast signatures 10 free per month
- Ring Central - All in one phones, video, team messaging with e-fax built in
- Free Covid NPO
- RedFax - Faxes to and from email starting at $5 a month, stand alone lower cost solution
Sanity
- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport Book and how to deal with our digital lives
- Attention Merchants by Tim Wu, law economics and a little phycology on the new digital addictions including cell phones and social media
- Daywise - Notification control for your phone
It Support
- Connectwise - Remotely control uen users computer for IT
- Splashtop - Remote PC Access From Tablet, Smartphone & Computer. Very price competitive
- Microsoft Learn free classes for IT intro and IT Support
- MicrosoftDirect Access - Unified Remote Access, is a VPN-like technology, that provides intranet connectivity to client computers when they are connected to the Internet
Security
- Signal - Free secure private messaging including video calls and disappearing messages.
- Antivirus is a must!
- Secure storage
- G Cloud - 10 GB free of storage for your phone
- Password Managers:
- Lock away a physical copy of your one time password
- LastPass - one time passwords https://support.logmeininc.com/lastpass/help/use-temporary-one-time-pas…
Get the Word Out
- Transcend Legal Icons - free legal icons - https://transcend.net/legal-icons.html
- YouTube - Create a Channel!
- Sample channels:
- YouTube Creators Academy Quick Start Guide https://creatoracademy.youtube.com/page/course/bootcamp-foundations?hl=…
- Unsplash Beautiful Free Photos - https://unsplash.com/
- GroupMe.com
- Scanbot.io
- Philips LiveSpeech.com