Bloggers sometimes forget that they can find inspiration for a post just about anywhere. Today Faith Pincus, whose blog offers public speaking guidance for attorneys, writes on last night’s mediocre Oscar acceptance speeches. Also, Max Kennerly comments on the happenings between Charlie Sheen and Warner Bros. Total posts on The LexBlog Network today: 148. The Comcast/NBCU… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Does legal publishing have a future on Facebook?
Could we see more law reviews, law blogs, legal newspapers, and other legal publications expanding to Facebook to increase circulation? Maybe even publish solely on Facebook and forgo their own print publication or online site? This past weekend’s widely discussed story about the Rockville Central, a community news outlet for the DC-area city of Rockville,… Continue Reading
Curiosity would serve lawyers well
Working with lawyers everyday, it’s safe to say most lawyers are not of the curious nature. They’re not willing to make mistakes to see what works and what doesn’t. Their fear of failure and embarrassment prevents them from growing by reaching outside their comfort zones. Garr Reynolds at Presentation Zen has a wonderful post this… Continue Reading
New blogs joining The LexBlog Network for the week of 2/21-2/25
Just a little bit later than normal, it’s time to take a look back at the publications that joined The LexBlog Network over the past week. The group of five launches includes The Network’s first Italian blog and a restaurant law blog that will really worth keeping an eye on. Have a great weekend everyone…. Continue Reading
Unbundling of legal media and publishing
Om Malik, a technology writer and founder of Giga Omni Media, penned an interesting piece this week about the unbundling of traditional media. Malik sees the unbundling of traditional media as analogous to the unbundling of telecom brought about the 1996 Telecom Act. The unbundling of access to the telecom facilities owned by the local… Continue Reading
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : February 24, 2011
Another day, another 147 posts added to The LexBlog Network. While I’ve heard about this issue before, Angelo Tartaro has an interesting post on a practice employed by the Marlyand Division of Corrections where job applicants are forced to provide their Facebook login credentials. Seems a bit excessive. Coca-Cola Facebook Approach Does Not Fit in FranklinCovey… Continue Reading
What’s the role of PR in promoting your law blog to traditional media?
ALM CEO, Bill Pollak, added a comment this morning to our discussion on the curating of legal social media. Bill pointed to the role of law firm PR in the social media world. For journalists to quote your niche blog and curate content that you post, they have to know about it. Good PR professionals… Continue Reading
Curating of legal social media
Bill Pollak, CEO of American Lawyer Media, shared more of his thinking on the curating of social media in a blog post this morning. …I think ALM’s journalists can play in curating other people’s writings in order to help our audience find the most important, most meaningful or most interesting content available on the web…. Continue Reading
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : February 23, 2011
As we wait for snow out in Seattle, we had 144 posts come across The LexBlog Network today. As a highlight, we have some great insight on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC from the likes of Kelly Savage, Max Kennerly, Russell Jackson and David Oliver. Good stuff, everyone. Supreme Court Sides with Vaccine… Continue Reading
Client Development 101 with Cordell Parvin : webinar recording, slides and materials
As is always the case, we’re very appreciative of Cordell Parvin for joining us yesterday and also for everyone else who was able to stop by for the Client Development 101 for 2011 and Beyond webinar. For those of you who made it out but would like to review some of the things covered, we… Continue Reading
Blogging ain’t dying among lawyers
When I first saw the New York Times story yesterday that blogs are waning as the young drift to other social media, I thought here we go go again. Everyone’s going to start talking about blogs being passe now that you can Tweet in 5 seconds and share a quip on Facebook in 20. It’s… Continue Reading
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : February 22, 2011
Following up on today’s webinar on client development with Cordell Parvin, Lindsay Griffiths has a phenomenal post discussing the topics covered. There’s just a remarkable level of depth there; the post should prove to be a good companion for when we have the recording readily available tomorrow. Now, onto the ten best posts from the 145… Continue Reading
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : February 21, 2011
Despite today being Presidents’ Day, and thus an off-day for many authors, we still saw a very respectable 135 posts on The LexBlog Network. For those of you who aren’t already signed up, let this be a reminder that tomorrow is our webinar with Cordell Parvin on Client Development 101 for 2011 and Beyond, which we’re… Continue Reading
Law firms ought to follow Gates Foundation in messaging through journalism
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is using journalism to get its message out in in a big way. From Sandi Doughton and Kristi Heim in this morning’s Seattle Times: To garner attention for the issues it cares about, the foundation has invested millions in training programs for journalists. It funds research on the most… Continue Reading
Getting your lawyers to opt-in to social media beats the stick approach
How do we get more of our lawyers to blog and use other forms of social media? We’re starting a blog for our practice group, how do we get more than 2 of the 24 lawyers to blog with regularity? I hear these questions regularly in my strategy calls. First of all, it’s okay that… Continue Reading