From Steve Rubel, Yahoo is testing trackbacks to blogs. There's a Yahoo! News Sandbox site that's the same as on the live site on which you can use all the new features Yahoo is testing. And for Yahoo's word on the testing directly go to the Yahoo News blog. This from Yahoo on the trackbacks… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: January 2006
Legal Tech : Internet connection gets worse – no WiFi at all
At least on day one, there was WiFi in a small area in a crowded exhibition hall. Day two has arrived and WiFi has been elinminated altogether. Now, just a bunch of people with open laptops walking around looking for a signal and cussing. When attendees ask ALM (American Lawyer Media), the conference coordinator/host, for… Continue Reading
Law firm blogs a no brainer : Sheppard Mullin Chief Knowledge Officer
Tom Baldwin, Chief Knowledge Officer for Sheppard Mullin, called law firm blogs a no brainer for large law firms seeking a more effective marketing medium. Addressing a Web 2.0 conference session at LegalTech, Baldwin described the problems the firm was experiencing in disseminating their content before blogs and the unexpected positives marketing blogs brought the… Continue Reading
LegalTech & ALM : Why no WiFi access for attendees?
Found my first tech conference without WiFi access in the conference rooms and hallways. LegalTech in New York City. Should come as no surprise it's a legal industry conference. American Lawyer Media (ALM) bills it's LegalTech conference “…[T]he largest and most important legal technology event of the year.' Despite charging attendees $675 to register and… Continue Reading
LLRX : Great online resource on the legal industry
LLRX.com, an all round online legal resource with a bias towards Internet related information, has been a labor of love for Sabrina Pacifici for over 10 years. Sabrina attracts thought leaders to create original content and have archived discussions on various subjects. Should be on the short list of resources for all legal blog publishers…. Continue Reading
New York Times : Leading resource for Internet ideas
The New York Times should be on your list of resources you use to stay up to speed with what's going on on the Internet. Effective internet marketing requires staying abreast of who's doing what on the Internet. Bloggers cannot cover it all for you. Plus what we'll glean from a story could be much… Continue Reading
Law firm SEO : No graphic image or animations for main page
Law firm SEO is the subject of an amusing post from Ken Chan at the Legal SEO and Marketing Blog from Justia. The point is not to include graphic images or some gimmicky animations on the main page of your Web site. Google can only read text, hopefully in your case text with keywords describing… Continue Reading
Blog Cruise : Blog confernce
Now the bloggers are taking to high seas with the Blog Cruise conference set for this October. One by One Media invites you to join us for the premiere business blogging conference by bringing together thought leaders and some of the brightest minds in the blogosphere to discuss the impact of business blogs on communications,… Continue Reading
McDonald's blog : Israel offers suggestions for all bloggers
The new corporate entry in the blogosphere, McDonald's Corporate Responsibility Blog, looks a little lame and is a good example of what not to do with your law firm's or professional services business blog. Shel Israel, co- author of Naked Conversations, offered this: Precisely seven days after the first post, at almost the same time,… Continue Reading
Meet this week in New York City?
I'll be in New York City from Sunday evening through Wednesday afternoon attending the LegalTech conference. If you'll be attending or work in New York, please look me up. I throughly enjoy meeting new people and catching up with friends. For LexBlog clients, let's meet face to face. Looking for information on how professional marketing… Continue Reading
RSS is smartest technology for 2006: Business 2.0
RSS is the smartest technology of 2006, per an article in Business 2.0. At long last, really simple syndication, or RSS, came into its own. Developed by Silicon Valley technologist Dave Winer, RSS makes it easy for popular sites such as CNN, Reuters, and Yahoo — and tens of thousands of bloggers — to distribute… Continue Reading
LegalTech : Sunday night get together at Hilton's Bridge Bar
Tom Mighell and Dennis Kennedy have put together a get together a LegalTech Sunday evening meetup for those in New York for the LegalTech conference. This is going out to everyone who expressed interest in meeting up (bloggers or otherwise) on Sunday night in NYC. Rather than try to find a restaurant that would fit… Continue Reading
LegalTech : Bloggers breakfast on Monday morning
The folks at Fios, electronic discovery experts, are coordinating a bloggers breakfast at Norma's, 118 W. 57th St. (short walk to LegalTech) between Sixth and Seventh Aves., at 7 am Monday. No agenda, just a talk among friends (even me). A table has been reserved so RSVP via email to Julia Wotipka, Online Programs Manager… Continue Reading
Blogs used for law firm 'Mini-Web Sites'
Bob Ambrogi, Massachusetts lawyer, media consultant and publisher of the LawSites blog, has an excellent article at Law.com on Mini-Web Sites serving law firms on niche topics. Packaging law is a niche in which various U.S. firms have carved out practices. But search the Internet for packaging law, and one firm stands out: Keller &… Continue Reading
New York Times launches 'Front Page Podcast'
From Steve Rubel, The New York Times has launched a free podcast at iTunes summarizing the day's top stories. It's hosted by James Barron, a reporter with the Times. The Times also has a new music review iTunes podcast in the iTunes store. Both are free but, for now, only available on iTunes.