New England lawyer Jill Fallon and publisher of Estate Legacy Vaults, describes The Blogher Conference kicking off Saturday with Sheryl Crow and then Tina Turner, age 63 and still looking great on the big screen. BlogHer is a network for women bloggers to draw on for exposure, education, and community. By holding a day-long conference… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: July 2005
Blogman back on Bainbridge Island
I'm back in the saddle on Bainbridge Island after a trip back to the Midwest this week for presentations on Internet marketing and blogs in Chicago and Indianapolis. Both great places with wonderful people. Owe Larry Bodine (Chicago) and Nancy Myrland (Indy) a big thank you for bringing me in. What did I learn? Blogs… Continue Reading
Indy LMA blog program location change
Due to the great response the LMA Indianapolis Chapter received for the 'Use of Blogs in Legal Marketing,' the LMA at Indianapolis meeting tomorrow at 12:15 will now be held at The Skyline Club, 36th floor, One America Square, instead of at the offices of Ice Miller. Please take the middle elevator bank to The… Continue Reading
Blogman to Chicago and Indy this week
I'm traveling to Chicago and Indianapolis this week to speak to a couple groups. Should be a good time meeting new people and discussing the ins and outs of Internet marketing, via blogs in particular. If anyone in those towns wants to meet for business or socially drop me an email or call my cell,… Continue Reading
There's always time for some Ole and Lena jokes
As Dave Winer said last night, it's always a good time for some Ole and Lena jokes. That's especially true for someone like me from Wisconsin where Ole and Lena jokes were as part of the fabric of our society as Bret Favre and Packer football. You see, Ole and Lena were Norwegian Lutherans from… Continue Reading
48% of bloggers are in it for money
Jim Kukral reports a recent BlogKits survey found 48% of bloggers do so with money as the motivating reason. As problogger points out though BlogKits is a blog advertising program which would increase the percentage of respondents interested in blogging for money, the figures do represent an increased focus upon commercial blogging for many. For… Continue Reading
Using blog searches for legal business, search engines don't cut it
Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team, founder of Broadcast.com sold to Yahoo and publisher of Blog Maverick provides lawyers and legal marketing professionals a heck of tip in a post this evening. It's more than a tip, it's an essential practice in marketing any business. That's listening to what others are… Continue Reading
Keith Robinson's Asterisk is 3 years old: What's he learned from blogging
Keith Robinson is a Seattle writer, designer, artist and publisher with a background in user-centered Web design, Web standards-based development and Web content. He does some wonderful work out of Phinney/Bischoff Design House. As proof he doesn't sleep, Keith publishes Asterisk, one of the better blogs I subscribe to. Unlike most blogs, including mine, which… Continue Reading
Blawg publishing, go the distance for effective marketing
Duncan Riley over at Blog Herald has an excellent post about the need for perseverance in building up traffic and the marketing effect of your blawg. Very few people find fame and fortune through launching a blog overnight, but over time most people can build a reasonable audience, or even more, based on perseverance at… Continue Reading
RSS to be as widely accepted as email and Web sites
Fellow Seattlite, Alex Barnett, picked up from Feed For All Blog something I go around been preaching. Even now, businesses that were initially reluctantly evaluating RSS are beginning to realize the power and benefit of the RSS information avenue. The inherent capacity for consumers to select the content they wish to receive will be the… Continue Reading
Blawgs, when will they peak?
Jeremy Zawodny's asking the question 'when will blogs peak?' prompted Dave Winer to write that he didn't think blogging will peak, anymore than the telephone will peak. Winer explained blogging is a fundamental way of communicating, if it goes away it will be replaced by something exactly like it. I agree. I also liked Winer's… Continue Reading
Lou Andreozzi out at LexisNexis
LexisNexis announced today that Lou Andreozzi, president and chief executive officer of LexisNexis North American Legal Market, is leaving the company to pursue other career options. Though I never worked with Lou, I sure do remember visting Martindale-Hubbell in about 1997 while he was serving as, I believe Chief Operating Officer of Martindale. I was… Continue Reading
Brain Injury Law Blog is one year old
Congrats to New Jersey plaintiff's trial lawyer Bruce Stern of Stark & Stark. Today is the one year anniversary of his Brain Injury Law Blog. It is hard to believe that today is the one year anniversary of the Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog. Back when I wrote my first post I never thought that… Continue Reading
Picking the best online/web based RSS reader
Brian Livingston, editor of WindowsSecrets.com and the co-author of 'Windows Me Secrets' and nine other books, continues his series on RSS readers by looking at the best Web based RSS readers. Web based means using an application based on the Internet where you log into a site as opposed to an application/piece of software sitting… Continue Reading
20 most popular RSS readers
Brian Livingston published an article at Datamation listing the most popular RSS readers. Even though Microsoft will be coming out with an RSS reader in its next browser and the Firefox browser already including same, Livingston says “The best reading experience for RSS, however, is not in a browser itself but in an application specially… Continue Reading