Comments on Find the conversation. Join it. Contribute to it. | Real Lawyers Have Blogs http://kevin.lexblog.com/2007/11/articles/blog-basics/find-the-conversation-join-it-contribute-to-it/ Law firms are not the only ones who do not understand blogs are not some sort of mini website you're looking to fill up with legal information. Blogger and journalist, Kristine Lowe, saw that BCC staffers kept fretting about filling... en-us Copyright 2008 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:17:14 -0800 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:57:10 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss gdgrifflaw@mac.com (Grant Griffiths) Some of us understand this and have been trying to communicate just this premise for sometime. The problem lies in the fact that most don't understand the concept. And god forbid they might actually give something away for free when they do engage in this conversation.

As you have said many times, the conversation you create with a blog, by posting, commenting, emailing and thanking those who comment on your blog and just continuing a conversation from a post, is exactly why blogs are so powerful.

Perhaps the reason so many don't get is is because it is so easy.

]]> http://kevin.lexblog.com/2007/11/articles/blog-basics/find-the-conversation-join-it-contribute-to-it/#827446 http://kevin.lexblog.com/2007/11/articles/blog-basics/find-the-conversation-join-it-contribute-to-it/#827446 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:50:08 -0800 kevin@lexblog.com (Kevin) I'm not sure firms are afraid to give something away for free. Though I have heard that some lawyers refuse to blog because they do not want to share information for free, I have never talked with a lawyer or firm for whom that was an issue. Usually it's concerns about positions their lawyers may take.

I do agree that most lawyers do not understand the conversation component of blogging. But I need to recall what I understood of blogs when I started.

Took me almost 2 years of blogging before one of Robert Scoble's posts enlightened me. Fortunately for the lawyers working with LexBlog, they catch on much faster. ;)

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