Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to collect information by emailing or embedding a form in your web site? And have the result automatically entered into a spreadsheet and receive an email notification upon each entry?That is exactly what anyone can do with Google Docs. 

I made the form below with Google Docs and I think you’ll be surprised just how easy it is. With Google Docs, part of Google Apps and every regular Google account, lawyers can make forms to collect client and firm information to a spreadsheet. 

Feel free to use the form and check out the movie below to see how it's done.

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In this post I’m getting a little ahead of myself as I planned to discuss intranet management in Step 5 of the Paperless Express- Leverage the Web.  However, the idea presented itself.

Clicking on a link in a Tweet (@SocialRainmaker) I arrived at the Lexis Hub on a post titled “New Associate Training” and found a PowerPoint presentation. I downloaded it and looked it over. It had attractive slides, and good advice for new associates at big law firms.

However, downloading a file and then relying on a machine’s local software is perhaps not as convenient for the viewer or reliable for the author as it could be.  These days we have more options and so I put together a quick presentation to show you another way it could be handled.

I created the presentation below, and is running through,  Google Docs.  Google Docs comes with a Google account and is also bundled with Google Apps, a suite of services used to build intranets for companies and designed to be run by the tech not so savvy.  Google Apps is part of the SaaS (Software as a Service) or “cloud computing“ movement now underway.  

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