What does my 2001 Volkswagen Beetle have in common with a FindLaw law firm blog? At least one thing, both are not blogs. To my credit I have not tried to sell my beetle to a law firm as a blog – even though it's only got 25,000 miles and is in pretty good shape…. Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: March 2006
FeedDemon 2.0 released by NewsGator
The use of RSS may have just gotten easier with the release of Feed Demon 2.0 for Windows. In a press release yesterday, NewsGator, the maker of FeedDemon, said: The release marks the first major update of the product since NewsGator’s acquisition of FeedDemon developer Bradbury Software in May of 2005. FeedDemon 2.0 includes seamless… Continue Reading
Coca-Cola blog worldwide blog initiative for employee feedback
Neville Hobson reports Coca-Cola Company is using a blog so that the company's 55,000 global employees can provide their views on Coca-Cola’s vision, mission and values. Orlando Ashford, HR head of Coca-Cola, in an interview with Dutch business magazine Brisk says he wants to see Coca-Cola management everywhere in the world setting an example and… Continue Reading
Google accidently deletes their own Blogger blog
Makes you wonder why so many professionals run their blogs on Blogger, a free service from Google, when Google employees accidently deleted their own Google blog. The blog address was then even temporarily claimed by another user. May sound crazy but I talk to some of the larger law firms in the country whose partners… Continue Reading
Blog to win friends and influence people
In the vein of Dale Carnegie's classic, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Steve Rubel provides some excellent blogging principals to live buy. Steve summarized Carnegie's principals adding his own comments in italics. Fundamental Techniques for Handling People Don't criticize, condemn or complain. Advance or build on the dialogue, even if you disagree. Give… Continue Reading
Podcasts portable? 80% never make it to portable player
The relevancy of portability for podcasts has been greatly overstated. From MIT Advertising Lab, 80% of podcast downloads never make it to a portable player or another device – they are consumed on the PC. Or, worse, never listened or deleted. This from a recent study by Bridge Data. I've been telling LexBlog's clients that… Continue Reading
Starting a business : Time could not be better
Couldn't agree more with the reasoning of the guys at 37signals, the makers of Basecamp, Backpack et al, that the time to start a business could not be better. You don't need VC diesel to get your motor running. Working nights or putting money aside to run full-time for three months is enough to get… Continue Reading
WorldBlogCenter scam
Stumbled into a press release yesterday about bloggers buying space in something called the virtual WorldBlog Center. The half backed idea was that you would pay so many dollars per pixel to display your blog logo on a web page professing to be the 'WorldBlog Center.' Not sure why anyone would be foolish enough to… Continue Reading
Law firm websites below average : Internet Standards Assessment Report
Comes as no surprise that law firm websites score below average for innovation, content and technology per a report from the Web Marketing Association. The Internet Standards Assessment Report (ISAR) performed since 1997 provides industry benchmarks for Web site development and is based on data collected from 9,748 Web site evaluations. The report evaluates average… Continue Reading
RSS How-to Series
CT Biz Blogs has put together a nice series of posts on how to use RSS. Coverage includes: RSS Introduction How to find and use an RSS Reader Ways to Find RSS Feeds Source for post: Micro Persuasion
NewsGator improvements will advance use of RSS
NewsGator has been a roll lately. They've just released updated versions of Netnewswire (mac desktop RSS feed aggregator) and FeedDemon (PC desktop RSS aggregator). Steve Rubel now reports NewsGator is upgrading it's web based aggregator. Take a look. Using RSS feeds for reading the content you want, from who you want and when you want… Continue Reading
Blog search engine optimization : Title tags are key
Blog search engine optimization via title tags is the subject of a post by Aaron Brazell, a guest blogger at Pro Blogger. Each page on the Internet has a title. The title is set forth in the title tag. That title tag is how Google indexes web content, whether on a website or a blog…. Continue Reading
Search engine optimize your blog
Search engine optimization for blogs is covered in an excellent post at Search Engine Joournal. Read the whole post but here's the keys. Keywords in blog post titles. Optimize the template so post titles appear in the title tag and hard code the title tag on the main page with the most important phrase for… Continue Reading
Web and search engine advertising is on the rise
Web and search engine advertising is on the rise per an article by Zachary Rodger of ClickZ News. A poll of 133 advertisers by Forrester found 80% will spend more on Web advertising with 68% of them singling out search engines for increased ad buys. Perhaps even more interesting was that it was TV advertising… Continue Reading
Law firms as tough on blogs as the CIA?
The CIA is putting the clamps on blogs. From USNews: The CIA's Publications Review Board is sending out terse reminders to agency veterans reminding them of the rules requiring that any writings–even blogs–must first get agency approval. Among those getting the warning is outspoken blogger and ex-agency man Larry Johnson, who smells censorship. 'It's very… Continue Reading