I’m honored to be presenting at next week’s ‘Cutting-Edge Issues in Technology Law‘ (pdf), Law Seminar International’s 15th annual computer law seminar, in Seattle. Featured speakers include Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna, U.S. Register of Copyrights Marybeth Peters, the Hon. Margaret McKeown of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Senior VP and General Counsel for… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Lawyer in Second Life? Bar Journal reporter is looking for you
Spoke with a reporter for a national legal journal yesterday who is doing a story on lawyers using Second Life to market themselves and/or their law firm. She is looking for lawyers to talk to who are Second Life members. If have an interest, drop me an email and I’ll get you her contact info…. Continue Reading
Top 10 signs your SEO consultant is a quack
Jill Whalen, founder of High Rankings, a leading search engine optimization consultancy, has 10 signs to watch out for that may indicate that your potential SEO consultant is a quack. She’s been kind enough to allow me to share the list with you. As Jill notes, one of these individually may not be bad, but… Continue Reading
Ads inappropriate on blogs marketing professional service or product
Running ads is inappropriate when your blog is being used to further enhance your reputation or that of your product. The adds are not going to generate enough money to make it worthwhile anyway. And in some cases, an attempt to pick up a few bucks a month from your blog can damage your reputation…. Continue Reading
Two new law blog aggregators
Last week brought two legal blog aggregators on back to back days. Justia launched BlawgSearch and Bill Gratsch’s Blawg.org relaunched as Blawg.com. Expect BlawgSearch to become one part of Justia’s growing legal portal, that’s likely to rival FindLaw in the next year or two. In addition to BlawgSearch there’s already the Justia Legal Web Directory… Continue Reading
Martindale-Hubbell lawyer blogs? Rumor has it
Heard from a pretty reliable source that Martindale-Hubbell is testing lawyer blogs with a select group of law firms. Have not seen any of the blogs up yet. Nor do I know who’s heading the initiative or doing the work for LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell. Anyone heard anymore about the product? I approached Martindale-Hubbell with the idea… Continue Reading
Lawyer blogs bring quality business clients
Des Moines business lawyer, Rush Nigut, shares his lawyer blog marketing success. It is remarkable to me that more and more lawyers continue to advertise in the yellow pages each year. The ROI for my blog has been huge. And for those skeptics that think you only get small (bottom feeder) cases through the use… Continue Reading
Local Internet search rules : Yellow page use drops by at least half
A new survey on the growth of local search on the Internet found that yellow page use has dropped by at least 50%. The survey measuring Internet usage to find a local service business was conducted by online marketing firm WebVisible. The survey which used a Nielsen//NetRatings’ online panel received the following information from more… Continue Reading
Bloggers immune from libel suits when republishing content
“Until Congress chooses to revise the settled law in this area’ people who contend they were defamed on the Internet can seek recovery only from the original source of the statement, not from those who re-post it.” That from the California Supreme Court in holding that blog publishers can not be held liable for defamatory… Continue Reading
Bloglines downtime causing bloggers to look elsewhere
Fons Tuinstra, Director & Columnist at Chinabiz, reports bloggers are finding the popular web based aggregator, Bloglines, has been done a lot lately. Fons, a regular user and loyal supporter of Bloglines for two years, found they were not updating their feeds for most of the day on some days. Living off feeds, like I… Continue Reading
LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell is really reaching
They’re not calling them super lawyers yet, but LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell is now sending out press releases announcing lawyers have been rated. Here’s an excerpt from today’s LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell release. LexisNexis(R) Martindale-Hubbell(R) Announces 64 Lawyers Receive Peer Review Ratings: “LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell today announced that 64 lawyers located throughout the United States and Canada have received Martindale-Hubbell… Continue Reading
MySpace lawyer marketing works : Significant results reported
MySpace lawyer marketing is working writes Dick Dahl, a reporter for USA Lawyers. New York City Entertainment lawyer Jason Lopez, age 31, uses MySpace to market his entertainment law practice, an area of practice seeing the best marketing results on MySpace. He looks for promising entertainers and lets them know of his services. How’s he… Continue Reading
2006 Weblog Awards: Nominations open for ‘Best Law Blog’
The 2006 Weblog Awards are taking nominations in about 30 blog categories, including Best Law Blog. Nominations close this week.
Law student blogger, Mommy, spouse serving in Iraq : Send her Thanksgiving note
Received random feed from NewsGator tonight of April blog post published by a self described anonymous blogger headed to law school in the fall. April 2006, the spring before I begin my career as a law student. Why begin another blawg, as they seem to be called? There are dozens of 1Ls and beyond all… Continue Reading
ROI on blogs : Resources to measure
In addition to Charlene Li’s own framework for measuring the ROI on blogs, she shares some other resources for calculating the ROI of blogs. Constantin Basturea’s del.icio.us page for the ‘ROI’ tag. Perspective on the ROI of Media Relations Publicity Efforts by Fraser Likely, David Rockland, Mark Weiner. Market Metrics: Measuring The Impact Of Blogs… Continue Reading