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Two new resources for elder law advocates


Farewell to Gene Donney!

Please join NTAP in congratulating Gene Donney – our NTAP LegalMeetings Coordinator – on his acceptance to law school.  Unfortunately that means that Gene will be leaving his NT

NTAP’s NEW Legal Services Executive Leadership Roundtable

NTAP Welcomes Rachel Medina

Rachel Medina has joined NTAP as our new 2009 Training Coordinator. Many of you know Rachel from her work as the A2J Coordinator at Chicago Kent.  Rachel also graduated f

Why Go To Work? Or how the economic crunch could spur flexible work options.

Blogging MIE Conference for Administrators – 8 Things I Learned Today

Living it up in San Antonio at the MIE Conference.  Here’s my take home messages for today:
 
  1. Explore options for better protecting laptops.

Metadata – Ignorance is not bliss.

Metadata is a sticky wicket if ever there was one. No legal aid office can afford to remain ignorant about the pitfalls metadata presents. <

The Sound of Silence

Today our brand new training coordinator Jeff Narabrook experienced a bit of trial by fire.  With about 100 people on the line ready to go for the Excel training

The Cost of Not Learning

What does it cost you not to learn something? In my case I can recall lots and lots of time I’ve wasted putting together Excel spreadsheets for budgets, invoic

Printer Emissions: Danger or Hype?


I do most of my magazine reading via the public library so I am passing along a dated story but it looks like the information is relevant.