http://mikemcbrideonline.com/2009/09/year-of-waiting/ Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:23:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://mikemcbrideonline.com/2009/09/year-of-waiting/comment-page-1/#comment-691 Rolfsa Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:11:56 +0000 http://mikemcbrideonline.com/2009/09/year-of-waiting/#comment-691 Great post Mike. I'm right there with you on your thoughts about effective and efficient technology. As a somewhat related note, I find it interesting that the attorneys that believe that technology should make things easier and faster don't seem to factor in the complexities of their requests. If they had asked for someone to distribute different parts of a 2000 page document to groups of different people all over the world before the advent of email/ftp it would have been a project unto itself taking weeks. Now the expectation is that it should take only a few clicks of the mouse and it should be automatic just because it's electronic. They don't take into consideration file formats, storage sizes, email attachment limitations, etc... We can generally do these tasks inside of a business day compared to the weeks of work it used to take. So yes, technology is an enabler...but it's still work and it still takes time. It's not magic. Great post Mike. I'm right there with you on your thoughts about effective and efficient technology. As a somewhat related note, I find it interesting that the attorneys that believe that technology should make things easier and faster don't seem to factor in the complexities of their requests. If they had asked for someone to distribute different parts of a 2000 page document to groups of different people all over the world before the advent of email/ftp it would have been a project unto itself taking weeks. Now the expectation is that it should take only a few clicks of the mouse and it should be automatic just because it's electronic. They don't take into consideration file formats, storage sizes, email attachment limitations, etc… We can generally do these tasks inside of a business day compared to the weeks of work it used to take. So yes, technology is an enabler…but it's still work and it still takes time. It's not magic.

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