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1 Stark County Law Library Association August 2009 The address, library.org really works! TRY IT!! BEGINNERS mycorporateresource mycorporateresource.com < com/> offers corporate professionals the latest in legal and commercial information from the world s top law firms and industry insiders. Every year the top 100 American law firms produce more than 10,000 Client Alerts addressing the key commercial and legal issues faced by their clients. We aggregate, review, sort and summarize this content - for free - to give you a really useful corporate resource. 1 The mycorporateresource. com website includes nine categories of information: Corporate Team consists of Board of Directors, The C- Suite, Legal, Finance, CoSec, Accounting, HR, and the Compliance Team which are all broken into from five to twelve specific areas of interest containing a lot of current material. Client Memoranda contains attorney written alerts and briefings on industry, corporate roles, area of law and geography; 24 (Memo)rable Hours - a list of everything they've compiled in the last 24 hours; and Lex Pop - a listing of which articles and alerts are being clicked on the most. RSS Feeds contains over 70 feeds set up by individual categories of industry, professional role, area of law and geography. 2 Special areas for topical information currently focusing on corporate governance, the SEC - all those press releases, blogs and rules releases that the SEC produces, all in one place, 3 and the credit crisis. Hot Topics - When there is a hot topic in the legal field, there are dozens of attorneys writing on that topic. mcr compiles those articles and alerts in one place for easy browsing. 4 Hot topics can be viewed b area of law, most recent or by corporate function. (Continued on page 2)

2 Page 2 BEGINNER mycorporateresource (Continued) (Continued from page 1) Memo of the Week - highlights the best article written that week. While researching this site I was impressed by the quantity, quality and timeliness of the materials presented. It is worth your time to see if they cover a topic on which you need to be kept up-todate. NEO Find and Pro If your Outlook Inbox resembles my system of helter-skelter folders and a filing system NO ONE could replicate, you may be in need of NEO Find or NEO Pro. Both are inexpensive, $15 and $50 respectively, but each comes with a 90-day trial period to see if it s worth the cost in convenience and organization. Both are add-on products to Outlook and work with Outlook 97 and above and Exchange Servers 5.5 and above. They are an additional interface to Outlook, NOT a replacement. In fact, when you create a new mail message, appointment, contact, journal entry, note or task in NEO, the Outlook interface opens for you to accomplish the action. You can also easily switch between the two interfaces 5 There is a very clear chart comparing the features of both available at: < organizer.com/products/features _comparison.php> so you can decide which version to try out. Or take a look at their tutorials at: < products/webinars_tutorial.php>. (Continued on Page 3)

3 Page 3 NEO Find & Pro (Continued) If you are basically happy with Outlook but have a hard time finding your s, NEO Find may be a good fit for you. (Continued from page 2) If you are basically happy with Outlook but have a hard time finding your s, NEO Find may be a good fit for you. This tool doesn t actually search for lost but organizes them so you know exactly where they are. Features include: All your messages organized by Correspondent Sent and received mails always automatically together Search for Conversation and Advanced Filtering Caelo's patented lightning fast search capability 6 NEO Pro is an Outlook add-on that shows you many views of all your messages - by date, by sender, by attachment - in all the ways you think about , and it's instantly searchable. In a nutshell, this is what it does: Organizes for easy access - showing each message in different contexts making it easy to find s in the future Prioritizes to focus on what s important by separating highpriority correspondent mail from low priority subscription mail ADVANCED Encryption, Part 3 In the past couple of months we have been reviewing encryption of and system wide encryption, touching a little on back-up encryption. This month I d like to go a little deeper into back-up security, especially for the solos and small firms. My favorite back-up tool is the Lexar JumpDrive Secure II Plus 16 MB USB Flash Drive which for $90 offers a lot of security features and (Continued on page 4)

4 Page 4 Encryption, Part 3 (Cont.) (Continued from page 3) comes pre-loaded with advanced security software that lets you protect your data securely, quickly, and easily. You can create multiple password-protected areas called Encrypted Vaults that automatically encrypt your data with on-the-fly 256-bit AES encryption. Use the File Shredder feature to securely and thoroughly delete files so they can't be recoveredgiving you complete peace of mind that your data is secure. 8 For more storage capacity, try the Kingston's DataTraveler Vault Privacy Edition USB Flash drive. It stores 32 GB of data, provides full 256-bit AES encryption and the drive locks down and reformats after ten intrusion attempts. It is a great product, but very pricy at over $ As mentioned last month, the frontrunner in back-up as well as other security issues is PGP. PGP Endpoint Device Control, < endpoint/> is an extension of the PGP Encryption Platform which prevents data loss from removable storage and portable devices. An additional safety feature for removable storage is Device- Lock < com/dl/>. For about $350 it allows system administrators to define and control the encryption policies their employees must follow when using removable devices.

5 Page 5 FOOTNOTES 1 mycorporateresource.com mycorporateresource.com. 10 July < 2-4 Lambert, Greg. mycorporateresource.com - Alerting You to Law Firm Alerts. 3 Geeks and a Law Blog. 26 June FB Blog Network. 10 July < mycorporateresourcecom-alerting-you-to.html>. 5 Doherty, Sean. Get a Fresh Outlook With NEO Pro. Law.com Legal Technology. 15 July Incisive Media US Properties, LLC. 15 July < LT.jsp?id= &src=EMC- &et=editorial&bu= Law.com&pt=LAWCOM%20Newswire&cn=NW_ &kw=Get% 5 20a%20Fresh%20Outlook%20With%20NEO%20Pro>. 6 Products: NEO Find. NEO Caelo Software BV. 15 July < 7 Products: NEO Pro. NEO Caelo Software BV. 15 July < 8 Lexar: USB Flash Drives: Product Highlights. Lexar Lexar Media, Inc. 22 July 2009 < 9 Search Results for: DTVP/32GB. Kingston Kingston Technology Company. 22 July < configurator_new/partsinfo.asp?root=us&linkback= gb&referid=28>. By Nancy Stinson, MLS nancy@starklawlibrary.org.