Lawyering Up!
Well, we don’t need a lawyer (we have one!) but we recently found out that the legal community needs us.
ZapTXT was profiled in a recent TechnoLawyer newsletter to law professionals in an article titled: “Bring order to the E-discovery chaos - and other hot products.”
Dennis Kennedy writes a detailed analysis of ZapTXT. Here’s an excerpt:
“You can use tags and search tools to refine the information you want. For example, you can set up a “Zaptask” with key words related to your practice and receive alerts when developments occur in those areas. You might monitor when clients get mentioned in the news or an expert is quoted. Of course, you can also monitor sports teams, shopping bargains, and job openings.
You are not limited to RSS feed material from single sites. You monitor topics or tasks, not just a single site. You can even specify the sites that make up the feed universe you monitor, expanding or contracting that universe as you wish.
ZapTXT is easy to use. Enter your keywords, including Boolean operators, enter the feed information, choose how you want to be alerted and the frequency of updates, and give your task a title and tags. You can then review and sort your Zaptasks in a variety of useful ways.”
TechnoLawyer describes its mission as “Our sole job consists of creating and maintaining an environment in which legal professionals and others in the field can share their knowledge and experiences with their peers.” The series of available newsletters is a great resource for legal professionals trying to make sense of technology as it applies to law and the daunting word of RSS and web based research tools. Neat stuff.
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Thanks for the detailed write up Dennis! We appreciate it.
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