Google’s just added a feature where a search on Google Blog Search can be added directly to your Google News Reader. Let me show you how it works. I’ll begin a step early – at Google’s standard search. Step one. Do a search for ’2007 Am Law 100′ at Google’s standard search page. You get… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: April 2007
2007 Am Law 100 now available
The 2007 Am Law 100 is now available. Published by ALM Media’s American Lawyer, the annual list ranks the highest-grossing firms in the U.S. As described by Chuck Lowry, Director of Client Relations for ALM Research, it’s the legal industry equivalent of the Fortune 500. I’ve asked ALM to comp me a copy (costs $600… Continue Reading
Justia’s visit to the Northwest
Had the chance to spend Saturday afternoon with Justia founder Tim Stanley. Good dinner too – thanks Tim. Tim and I on Bellingham’s Fairhaven walkway. Good discussion about blogs and the resulting discourse on the law as well as making law freely accessible via Justia’s growing legal portal. Good opportunities to work together on some… Continue Reading
Social media host liability for user-generated content : Canada blog law
From Rob Hyndman, “In one of the first cases of its kind in Canada, and what could be the first case to go the distance (based at least on the deep pockets of one defendant), Google, Wikipedia and Openpolitics.ca are being sued in BC for libel based on user-generated content.” Rob’s take is a sensible… Continue Reading
Key’s for hiring talented people
With LexBlog’s expansion, David Maister’s post on hiring talented people, was a timely one. Especially liked David’s reference to Robert Sutton’s ‘The War for Talent is Back‘ post on the Harvard Business School Online Site. Sutton is a professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University. Sutton’s points and my comments: Superstars are overrated…. Continue Reading
All voices not being heard on the blogosphere
Madison’s Jesse Russel blogged the ‘Are all voices being heard in the blogosphere?’ panel from ‘Wisconsin’ Blummit‘ yesterday. This is a tremendous issue in the blogospere as it happens to be very male and very white. While Milwaukee Journal Sentinel panelist Eugene Kane pointed out that he is one of the few black men blogging… Continue Reading
Get together in Montreal? : I’ll be there Thursday and Friday
I’ll be in Montreal the end of this week for a presentation on lawyer blogs and social media at the ABA’s Young Lawyers Division Conference. I get in late Thursday afternoon and fly out Saturday afternoon. I’d welcome getting together Thursday evening, anytime Friday, or Saturday morning, whether for a cup of coffee, a beer,… Continue Reading
We’re gathering in Seattle
LexBlog’s IT Director, Jesse Newland, will be in from Atlanta for Thursday’s Amazon Web Services conference. Amazon and Madrona Venture Group are co-hosting the event covering Amazon Web Services. Amazon has spent 11 years and over $2 billion building the infrastructure, technical knowledge, and operational excellence to operate a world class web-scale computing platform. Amazon… Continue Reading
Video : RSS in Plain English
Common Craft, a designer of online communities, made this video for their friends (and ours) that haven’t yet felt the power of RSS and a RSS newsreader. Click To Play Like Common Craft says, “We want to convert people… if you know someone who would love RSS and hasn’t yet tried it, point them here… Continue Reading
LexisNexis blogs
LexisNexis does have a blog. In response to my post and follow up email asking if there were any LexisNexis Blogs, I received an email from Jennifer Aleknavage, Communications Manager for LexisNexis, U.S. Corporate Markets. Jennifer mentioned Marie Kaddell’s blog, Federal Info Pro, dedicated to topics of interest to federal librarians. Marie has over twenty-five… Continue Reading
BusinessWeek : Blog for effective marketing
Karen Klein, a Los Angeles-based writer who covers entrepreneurship and small-business issues has a nice answer to a reader of BusinessWeek on how to market to their company’s niche audience. Blog for effective marketing. Blogs are emerging as powerful marketing tools, particularly for small businesses. They are relatively inexpensive to start and maintain, and yet… Continue Reading
Is LexisNexis’ approach to blogs backwards?
LexisNexis has teamed with up Newstex to deliver blog content to the legal industry, among other professions. Blog content is delivered via a product they call ‘Blogs on Demand.’ Presumably, LexisNexis customers pay a fee to get this blog content as well as other news and information. The number of law blogs included in ‘Blogs… Continue Reading
What business is LexBlog in?
Is LexBlog an Internet marketing tool for lawyers that competes with websites, email newsletters, listservs and the like? I don’t think so. As LexBlog and social media evolve I see LexBlog being the discussion driver of choice for the legal, medical, and scientific industries. We empower thought leaders in these areas to participate in, kick… Continue Reading
RSS subscribers not more likley to click to blog site using partial text feeds
Contradicting common belief, RSS feed subscribers are no more likely to click to a blog site using partial text feeds than to a blog site offering full text feeds. This from Rick Klau, Feedburner’s VP of Publishing Services. VentureBeat explains this contradicts the widely held assumption held by blog publishers. If publishers offer a partial… Continue Reading
Internet most effective marketing tool used by business and transactional law firms
The Internet is now the single most effective marketing tool employed by corporate, transactional and defense firms, according to a recent survey by Alyn-Weiss & Associates. Highlights include: The number of law firms that ‘received work directly or by referral during the past 24 months’ from their Web site is up from 51 percent of… Continue Reading