In November 2003 I stumbled onto this medium while sitting in the cold of my garage at a door propped up by a file cabinets. I saw a number of excellent lawyer blogs published by some very fine people. I have had the good fortune to meet many of them on and off line over… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: December 2005
RSS Cases Blog : New blog focused on RSS only
The RSS Cases Blog was recently launched by Raj Kumar Dash of Chameleon Integration. As introduced the blog will be about: RSS Marketing – Using and promoting your RSS Feeds to increase your online success. RSS Development – How to build your RSS Feeds, and discussion of new technologies and software for creating and maintaining… Continue Reading
Blogs not overhyped nor fad : Forbes publisher
Rich Karlgaard, the publisher of Forbes, the nation's most popular business and financial magazine, read by 4.5 million people per issue, offered some insight with his post My Life as a Blogger. Blogging is not overhyped. You may be forgiven for thinking so, as no day goes by without a story on blogs. But blogs… Continue Reading
LexBlog customer challenge : Let's take blogs to the masses
Seth Godin published a series of posts today on the marketing of new products, Squid Soup Part I, Part II and Part III. He wrapped it up with something I wholeheartedly agree. Marketing used to be expensive. Buy a few million dollars worth of ads and you could have a shot at success. Marketing is… Continue Reading
Blog adoption cycle : We're just starting
Where are we at in the adoption life cycle of blogs? Very, very early. One of the more important concepts in marketing a technology product comes from Geoff Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. Moore used the bell curve to indicates how people respond to a new technology. To explain, I'll borrow this graphic and description from… Continue Reading
Mystery blogger quits U.S. Attorney's Office
The Newark Ledger reported Friday that David Lat, the federal prosecutor who admitted writing the anonymous blog 'Underneath Their Robes,' is leaving his position as a U.S. Assistant Attorney in Newark. In addition to courthouse gossip that once included a list of the 'superhotties' of the bench, the blog included items on the “love lives… Continue Reading
Official Google Blog: A year of success
Karen Wickre of the Google Blog team reports the Official Google Blog has been a success. During 2005, they've made 201 posts offering insights into product and technology news as well as the Google culture. The result: 4.3 million unique visitors. We've published 38 how-to tips, announced 77 new products and services, and addressed policy… Continue Reading
Fortune 500 Business Blog Index
In collaboration with Socialtext, Wired has created the Fortune 500 Business Blog Index, a wiki that tracks which of the Fortune 500 is blogging. They found that only 4% of the Fortune 500 are doing so. Chris Anderson, Editor of Wired, says, over time, as the list gets more robust, they'll add the share price… Continue Reading
Google experiments with results navigation
Google is experimenting with its user interface where its navigation would move from the top to the side. The different search types (web, images, groups, and so on) are now listed on top of the search results. But Arjun Prabhu saw a changed result page in Internet Explorer when searching for msn virtual earth and… Continue Reading
Medical blogs : Good list of blogs within which to network
Looking at the list of Medical Blogs in the 2005 Medical Blog Awards Nominees from Medgadget may give you ideas for your own blogs. For those law firms and professional business firms looking to network with the medical community and pick up incoming links to your blog from medical blogs, here's a great place to… Continue Reading
Blog policy for law firms and professional services businesses
A blog policy can be most important given a blogs capacity for nearly real-time dialog and your employees publishing information before carefully considering the consequences says Alfred C. Frawley, an intellectual property lawyer with Preti Flaherty in Portland, Maine, in an excellent article in today's business section of MaineToday.com. The potential legal issues generated by… Continue Reading
How blogging can help your business in the new year
Hendry Lee, who helps business owners use technologies to market their business online, has a nice story on how blogging can help your business. Despite blogs being in their infancy, Lee says businesses are finding big marketing gains through blogs. “Standalone conventional websites used to adequately deliver information, but nowadays customers want more than that.”… Continue Reading
SEO friendly graphics
The Search Engine Roundtable asks 'Are SEO Friendly Graphics Worth It?' I'm getting the answer on my blog for my own information as well as other developers who use similar techniques for SEO – search engine optimization. SEO friendly buttons or graphics are basically graphical text with a header tag behind it that is not… Continue Reading
Search engine marketing budget : Top five places to spend
Barry Schwartz, the Editor of Search Engine Roundtable and President of RustyBrick, Inc., a Web services firm specializing in customized online technology, shares a recent discussion board forum where a member asks, ‘which do you consider the top five SEO techniques for money investment?’ Barry pulled Chris Bogg's response as a good summary of the… Continue Reading
Online advertising growing faster than anticipated
Bloomberg reports that online advertising will grow faster than anticipated for 2006. This growth is outpacing newspaper and TV spending. The move to online advertising is happening faster than analysts anticipated as companies devote more of their budgets to the Internet than traditional media. The market for online ads will increase 32 percent to $16.6… Continue Reading