With Microsoft's announcement to support RSS in its operating system and applications, Chris Pirillo, writes it's time for marketers to include RSS in their business models. Pirillo takes a detailed look at what Microsoft's plans on RSS mean for marketers: By being integrated in IE and other Microsoft software, RSS will achieve mass penetration. For… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: June 2005
Podcasting for Dummies (even lawyers) : Wall Street Journal
Podcasting is heading mainstream. Apple Computer yesterday introduced its latest version of iTunes music software, this one including a feature making it easier to find, download and listen to podcasts. This morning's Wall Street Journal calls Apple's offering the TV Guide for Internet audio programs. As Tim Stanley over at Justia posted, you can list… Continue Reading
Joe Hartley another blog contrarian without a clue on power of blogs
Well we have more lawyers jumping onto the blog contarian bandwagon. You know, the ones who don't publish a blog, who don't participate in the online discussion being generated by blogs, who don't monitor feeds coming from particular blogs or generated by keywords & key phrases and who don't use RSS. But have no problem… Continue Reading
Law blog basics for small firms & solo's : ABA GP-Solo Magazine
Carolyn Elefant, Washington DC lawyer, leading writer on small firm practice and publisher of My Shingle, has an excellent article on beginning a blog in June's ABA GP-Solo Magazine. [Blogs] can provide many benefits to solos and small firm practitioners—that is, to those who visit and/or maintain them. With blogs, lawyers can increase their web… Continue Reading
What RSS in Longhorn Means to lawyers and legal marketing professionals
Microsoft's announcement on Friday that RSS will be incorporated into Longhorn, Microsoft's next operating system, was a big deal for lawyers and law firm marketing professionals. BL Ochman, an Internet marketing leader, saved me from having to pull a post together for you this evening. BL posted 'A Simple Explanation of What RSS in Longhorn… Continue Reading
LexBlog cited at Gnomedex
Thanks to some very kind words of Denise Howell, now speaking at Gnomedex, LexBlog's Web site was just pulled up on the big screen. Denise explained how lawyers were publishing blogs to both provide legal information and perform public relations, that is reach the public, in a new way. One of our client's Sheppard Mullin,… Continue Reading
Microsoft is wearing RSS, literally
This AP Photo says it all. I saw this shoe on the foot of Dean Machamovitch, the general manager for Longhorn, Micrososft's upcoming operating system, at the Gnomedex bash last night. Also blogging this picture, Steve Rubel summed it up far better than I. On June 24, 2005, the users won. The age of RSS… Continue Reading
Yahoo 360 now open to the public
The Blog Herald reports this morning that Yahoo 360 is now open to the public. Yahoo 360, a social networking tool in part incorporating blog technology was previously in beta form and required an invite. You can try it out by signing up here. I have not tried it out yet so can not speak… Continue Reading
Update on Microsoft's RSS – Longhorn announcement of today
Alex Barnett has a nice summary of the news that followed Microsoft's announcement at Gnomedex this morning that Microsoft's new operating platform, Longhorn, will be integrating RSS across the board. Includes pictures of the 'Longhorn Loves RSS' t-shirt to boot. Flattering to see me quoted along side reports from AP, Reuters, ZDNet, InfoWorld and Information… Continue Reading
Microsoft to bring RSS to the masses soon : live at Gnomedex
Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft's Longhorn Browsing and RSS Technologies General Manager, is currently giving a presentation wearing a black t-shirt ala 'I love New York' with the big red heart saying 'Longhorn loves RSS.' The RSS is of course in that little orange rectangle with the letters RSS in it. Looks like we even get jackets… Continue Reading
Weblogs, Inc. blogs Gnomedex live
You can follow all the action at Gnomedex Weblogs Inc's blog of Gnomedex. Though they are to be blogging live all day today and tomorrow, I have not seen posts from this morning yet – though we have only had Chris Pirillo's welcome and Dave Winer's interactive keynote now in progress.
Live at Gnomedex today
Took the ferry over to Seattle this morning to be at Gnomedex. I am here to learn and speak with the real thought leaders in our industry so I can keep you in the legal marketing community up to speed on the most innovative Internet marketing. You can hook in live for the Webcast. Access… Continue Reading
Great discussion on marketing power of blogs for lawyers
There is a great discussion going on about the merits of blogs for legal marketing. Began when Dale Tincher at Consultwebs.com wrote an article on his Web site saying lawyers should go slow on blogs. Citing some half truths (arguably false statements) about blogs in the article I questioned in a post of mine whether… Continue Reading
Consultwebs buying sponsored links to promote article critical of blogs?
Anyone else think it strange that Consultwebs.com is now running Google AdWords (search lawyer blogs) to promote its misguided 'whitepaper' – www.consultwebs.com/articlesdt/law_firm_blogs.htm – saying blogs are a waste of time for many law firms? For me, any doubt I may have had about ConsultWebs lack of knowledge on how blogs work for lawyer marketing and… Continue Reading
Law blogs : Movable Type or WordPress?
There's a decent discussion going on over at ProBlogger about what's better for blog software, Movable Type (MT) or WordPress. As you'll see from the discussion, there's a lot of bent up anger against Six Apart produced Movable Type. This is the result of Six Apart's decision last year to start charging for MT version… Continue Reading