From Steve Rubel, the Washington Post is gearing up to launch a social network of its most passionate readers. According to Colin Delany, WashingtonPost.com is implementing reader comments on all news stories. You can see a sampling here. They’re starting with less controversial topics and will expand to all stories once content filtering mechanisms are… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: August 2006
Best SEO advice. Hands down.
Dave Taylor speaking at the Affiliate Summitt talking about business blogging – Instead of making yourself crazy with search engine optimization, you could simply produce great content and let search engines do what they do. Source for post: Guy Kawasaki
New legal tabloid an idea long overdue
If you haven’t seen it yet, you probably soon will. Above The Law, a legal tabloid, was launched this week by some folks who know what they are doing as to sensational blog publishing and creating a buzz. They are looking for juicy gossip and salacious rumors. Above the Law has the opportunity to shake… Continue Reading
Marketing is a conversation : Blog is your mouth
Ain’t no better post I can reference on how blogs are a networking tool than this post from John Manoogian continuing the Cluetrain Manifesto that marketing is a conversation. Picked it up via Doc Searls’ ‘Long Train Running.’ References buying ads as opposed to networking with others in a social network. But the lesson can… Continue Reading
Law.com blog asks for input on a lawyer ratings system
In response to posts by Mark Beese and myself, Carolyn Elefant of Inside Opinions at Law.com is asking for your opinion as to an online rating system for lawyers that would give consumers the information they need to choose an attorney. Carolyn worries that a ranking system would disproportionately generate comments from malcontents seeking to… Continue Reading
Soon to be too late to start blogging? Not
Legal marketing professional, Larry Bodine, has a post this morning entitled ‘It’s Not Too Late To Start Blogging (But It Will Be Soon). Goes on to to discuss the great marketing success Dennis Crouch has had with his patent blog. But soon to be too late to start a blog? C’mon. That’s like saying it… Continue Reading
Law firm internet marketing often blind leading the blind
Ran across a post entitled Law Firm Internet Marketing An Executive Summary Using the Q&A Format in my RSS feeds this am. Goes on to answer a question about Google PageRank with information that could not be more wrong. And this from someone who holds themselves out as giving sound information about attorney marketing. Google… Continue Reading
Angie’s List : Why not lawyer ratings?
Angie Hicks founded Angie’s list, a Web site that collects and shares customer-satisfaction reports on local businesses. Per an article in this morning’s Seattle Times, the site was born out of necessity. Angie’s List started in 1995 when Angie Hicks teamed up with friend Bill Oesterle, who had just bought an old home, to figure… Continue Reading
State of the Law Library Blogosphere
Bonnie Shucha, Head of Reference for the University of Wisconsin Law Library and publisher of WisBlawg, has published an excellent summary on law librarian blogs called The State of the Law Library Blogosphere. Bonnie believes blogs can provide valuable reference, research, and client services, all essential parts of what law librarians do. But in the… Continue Reading
What’s right amount of corporate blogging?
Blog marketing consultant, Josh Hallet, has a nice post discussing blogs in a corporate setting. Who should be blogging on behalf of the company? How many blogs? How much time? On what topics? Josh references a post on the question by Dave Coustan of Earthlink on the Earthling blog along with some great thoughts in… Continue Reading
None of top five law firms using blogs & RSS
The annual Vault.com rankings of Big law firms are out. As far as I know, none of the top five, Wachtell, Cravath, Sullivan & Cromwell, Skadden, and Davis Polk, are using blogs and RSS for marketing purposes. Will be interesting to see who goes first.
Not okay to steal and repurpose RSS feeds
I’ve run into the same situation as Scoble where clowns take my posts by RSS feed and repurpose them on their blog. By including links in their posts they’re picking up spam generated trackback links to their blog. When challenged, the clowns say putting a full-text RSS feed out there is akin to giving everyone… Continue Reading
Akismet down : Spam getting through on some blogs
Scoble reports an onslaught of comment spam for WordPress bloggers with Akismet being down the last couple days. Akismet, produced by the WordPress folks, acts as an excellent filter of comment spam for bloggers. LexBlog’s IT director, Jesse Newland, has whipped up a nice cocktail of spam filters for LexBlog’s network of blogs. We use… Continue Reading
Be not like other bloggers
Seth Godin, referencing an interview with Hugh Macleod, has some advice for increasing blog traffic. It’s so easy for a blogger to try to be like other bloggers, merely because there’s so much input available. Resist! Technorati Tags: Seth Godin
Yahoo kills blog search, new feed platform may be coming
From Steve Rubel, Yahoo has eliminated the blog search function from Yahoo news. …[T]his is a sure sign that Yahoo is gearing up to launch an integrated feed reader/search engine the way Ask.com/Bloglines did in June. This is the second piece of evidence in the puzzle. In July I noticed a referral link in my… Continue Reading