Comments on Can we use Google's free Blogger blog publishing platform for our large law firm's blogs? | Real Lawyers Have Blogs http://kevin.lexblog.com/2008/09/articles/blog-basics/can-we-use-googles-free-blogger-blog-publishing-platform-for-our-large-law-firms-blogs/ We get that question a lot at LexBlog. Last Thursday night the question came from a large overseas law firm. Makes as much sense as asking 'Can we have our 300 lawyer firm housed in a pole barn with lawyers... en-us Copyright 2012 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:48:07 -0800 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:57:54 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss firm@harrismoure.com (Dan) A summer worker at my firm who just graduated from college and will be travelling the world for a year asked me if he should use blogger. I told him no, for two reasons. First, you need your own domain name and nobody (at least me anyway) can ever remember a blogspot (blogger) domain name. Two, ALL blogger blogs are frequently blocked in China and in other countries engaging in censorship. These countries do this because those blogs opposing their regimes are often on free domains like blogger. I agree with you 100%.

]]> http://kevin.lexblog.com/2008/09/articles/blog-basics/can-we-use-googles-free-blogger-blog-publishing-platform-for-our-large-law-firms-blogs/#1344459 http://kevin.lexblog.com/2008/09/articles/blog-basics/can-we-use-googles-free-blogger-blog-publishing-platform-for-our-large-law-firms-blogs/#1344459 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:27:30 -0800 nickholmes@infolaw.co.uk (Nick Holmes) Kevin - What's your view on Typepad and (hosted) WordPress?

]]> http://kevin.lexblog.com/2008/09/articles/blog-basics/can-we-use-googles-free-blogger-blog-publishing-platform-for-our-large-law-firms-blogs/#1420725 http://kevin.lexblog.com/2008/09/articles/blog-basics/can-we-use-googles-free-blogger-blog-publishing-platform-for-our-large-law-firms-blogs/#1420725 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:59:01 -0800 marc17@gmail.com (Marc Beharry) I say it is viable. Maintaining a self hosted blog is a pain in the ass, lol mainly because of security and frequent updates.

Unless you have a dedicated web site staff, hosting another site just turns out to be more problems. As you can see, you can have a blog with your own domain(click my name) and you can, for the time being, remove that blogger bar at the top.

If you are really serious about blogging though, I highly suggest self hosted wordpress.

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