Web Strategist, Jeremiah Owyang, a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, offers some helpful tips this morning on what a company or an individual can do to get noticed. Owyang aptly describes the problem lawyers perceive when they launch a blog. I hear it every day. There are so many brands now, in fact with the… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 8/29/08
It is an amazing afternoon out in Missoula, Montana as I wrap up my first week writing these posts on the LexBlogosphere. I hope everyone’s Labor Day weekend is looking just as nice. Well, it’s Friday afternoon, time to call it quits and take a look at some of the best posts from around the LexBlogosphere…. Continue Reading
Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 8/28/2008
Things are starting to slow down a little as we all get closer to the lengthy holiday weekend. However, there was still enough action around LexBlogosphere to pull out ten interesting posts. As usual, the topics run the gamut, from John Horan’s post on Xcel Energy to a bizarre trusts story on the Toronto Estate… Continue Reading
FindLaw selling links story is spreading like wildfire
FindLaw may choose not to respond to the Internet discussion about FindLaw’s recent troubles with the sale of links. But there’s no question that FindLaw’s conduct is one hot topic of discussion. In addition to blog posts and blog comments, including a reporter’s comment asking for current and former FindLaw sale’s reps to contact them,… Continue Reading
Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 8/27/2008
Today’s batch of posts from around the LexBlogosphere starts off with two very meaningful posts: Tami Cowden on why lawyers stay lawyers and Bob Little suggesting some serious change in the eDiscovery realm. It is time for a real change in our industry – eDiscovery expert and RenewData CMO Bob Little on their eDiscovery Source…. Continue Reading
LexBlog’s Monthly Best of Blogging Webinar Series continues live this AM : Marketing Your Law Blog
We’ll continue our monthly Best of Blogging Series for LexBlog clients this morning with ‘Marketing Your Blog : Getting And Growing Traffic To Your Niche Law Blog.’ Looks like we’ll have close to 100 clients attending. We’ll go live at 9 AM PT with Rob La Gatta, Stacey Merrick, and I taking the mic’s so… Continue Reading
LinkedIn Legal Blogging Group features coming this week
I’ve been telling you LinkedIn and I were working on ways to facilitate collaboration and learning among members of our LinkedIn Legal Blogging Group. As could be expected, and as I hoped, LinkedIn beat me to it. This Friday, LinkedIn will be adding several much-requested features to LinkedIn groups which I’ll be activating for our… Continue Reading
ILTA online discussion : What a difference two years makes
The ILTA (International Legal Technology Association) annual conference this week in Dallas is generating a lot of blog and Twitter discussion. What a difference a couple years makes. Here’s an excerpt from my August 25, 2006 post on the ILTA 2006 conference. In what may be the latest sign legal technology innovation is an oxymoron… Continue Reading
Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 8/26/2008
There’s been a bit of a break in these updates from the LexBlogosphere but the lull is over as these become a daily feature again. Today’s posts bring a wide range of topics, from information on the The National Clean Energy Summit to the story of an individual arrested for their tenth DUI. Your Response Time Sucks!… Continue Reading
LinkedIn Legal Blogging Group update : More features on the way
Our LinkedIn Legal Blogging Group, born as an experiment, continues to grow. We’re just shy of 1,000 members. If you requested to join over the last couple weeks, there may have been some delay in approving your request. LinkedIn was making some improvements to the group management tools and experienced a few bugs. The new… Continue Reading
Upselling your blog readers : Charging for premium content and services
I’m hearing from more and more lawyers who want to sell access to premium content through their blog. Whether by pay for play on a piece by piece basis or by subscription, the lawyers are looking for residual income to supplement earnings from their legal practice. I’m known as an ‘information yearns to be free’… Continue Reading
Live LexBlog blogs from 8/12-8/22
It’s been a while since we’ve alerted readers of our latest blog launches. No, it’s not because we haven’t been kicking any projects out the door…we’ve just overlooked these weekly updates the past couple weeks. But what better time to catch up on old business that Saturday morning? Since our last update, we’ve launched 9 blogs:… Continue Reading
Twitter use among legal professionals is growing : I’m meeting a lot of folks
The more I use Twitter, the more of you in the legal community follow me via Twitter. Guess that’s not surprising in that Twitter’s set up to work that way. But what it is surprising, at least to me, is the growing number of legal professionals beginning to use Twitter. Lawyers, paralegals, marketing/business development/communications folks,… Continue Reading
Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 8/22/08
Before we head out and close up LexBlog’s office for the weekend, it’s time to debut another batch of 10 noteworthy legal blog posts from our clients. It was hard to pick our selections today: quite a lot of excellent content, which – given the fact that Fridays often see a slowdown in the number… Continue Reading
Gnomedex in Seattle : Watch it live Friday and Saturday : It’s good and moving
If you have some time yet today and tomorrow, check out the live video feed from Gnomedex here in Seattle. What’s Gnomedex? Hundreds of the world’s leading bloggers, podcasters, and tech-savvy enthusiasts for sessions presented by thought leaders in the field. Rather than the ‘how-to’s,’ it’s a show and tell of what they’ve done. I’ve… Continue Reading