In his post this morning, The chance of a lifetime, Seth Godin challenges us to make the decision to be great. Opportunities have never been greater. Godin shared what he wrote 9 years ago that applies equally today. Here’s a question that you should clip out and tape to your bathroom mirror. It might save… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Twitter enables me to help homeless woman in Chicago
Before Twitter, how could I sitting in an office in Seattle’s Pioneer Square yesterday exchange a note with a homeless person in Chicago and help them today from my home on Bainbridge Island? I couldn’t. A story by Deborah Donovan in yesterday’s Chicago Daily Herald put me in touch with AnnMarie Walsh, (@padschicago), a 41… Continue Reading
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : December 30, 2011
With Colin O’Keefe in transit over the holiday weekend, I’m covering the best in the LexBlog Network from rainy Missoula, Montana. That’s right, it’s December 30, and instead of the typical snowy, frozen tundra that accompanies winter in Montana, we’re getting rained on. Fortunately the posts keep coming in, no matter the weather. Today’s top… Continue Reading
New years resolution for small law : Trash website and go with blog alone?
A few years ago it was blasphemy to tell a lawyer or law firm that they’d be better off going with a blog, alone, rather than a website. Though I believed it to be sound advice in many cases, I got jumped on by legal marketers who said a lawyer could never succeed without a… Continue Reading
Could you personally visit each of your Facebook friends in 2012?
Thirty-nine flights and 13 countries later, Chicago’s ArLynn Presser had met 288 of her Facebook friends as of December 1. By tomorrow, New Year’s Eve, she expects to have met 292. Thandi Fletcher (@thandi_fletcher), a reporter with Canada’s Postmedia News has a great story in The Province this morning about the former practicing lawyer’s 2011… Continue Reading
Popehat unmasked : For a good cause
I’ve gone back and forth with ‘Ken’ on the Popehat blog more than once over the last few years regarding his remaining an anonymous blogger. Perhaps I don’t like anonymous bloggers. Perhaps I was envious of what is a dam good title for a law blog. Perhaps I am too defensive. But no question I… Continue Reading
Can Twitter be ordered to turn off terrorists accounts? Twitter finds itself in middle of free speech battles
When I wrote about the US military and the Taliban engaging each other via Twitter I heard comments that Twitter ought to be compelled to turn off the Taliban’s accounts. Now Shurat HaDin, an Israeli law center, is threatening to sue Twitter unless the social network cuts off access to terrorist groups, including Hezbollah. Msnbc’s… Continue Reading
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : December 29, 2011
Before we jump into things, a couple LXBN posts worth checking out: first, we have an episode of LXBN TV with Keith Hall breaking down the EPA’s report linking fracking to groundwater contamination; and second, a roundup of some of the best "year in review" posts. Continuing on, we happen to have a few of those… Continue Reading
Top 20 most popular posts on Real Lawyers Have Blogs for 2011
I’ve been publishing this blog for over eight years. Though my posts about the value of blogging for professional and business development as well as my practical tips for blogging remain very popular, it’s fun to look back at which posts I published in the last year were the most popular. Here’s the top 20… Continue Reading
Are large legal publishers shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to new media?
Attorney and media consultant, Bob Ambrogi, has a post this morning reviewing Thomson Reuters new site covering the Supreme Court’s 2011-2012 term, called Case by Case: The U.S. Supreme Court. The site is part of Thomson Reuters’ (owner of Westlaw) push into enhanced legal coverage through the web. Bottom line Ambrogi says if you want… Continue Reading
Google+ adding 625,000 users a day : What’s it mean for you as an attorney?
Google’s social networking service, Google+, is adding 625,000 new users a day and may total 400 million members by the end of next year, according to independent analysis of its growth. This per Bloomberg’s Nick Turner (@SFNick) in his report this morning that Google was building a rival to Facebook, which currently has more than… Continue Reading
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : December 28, 2011
Just like yesterday, the quantity of posts may have dipped slightly during what’s become a slightly quieter week but the quantity is still there. Also, you may not have known this, but a Festivus reference will almost surely get your post into the roundup, though Jason Shinn’s was good enough to make it in without it…. Continue Reading
Financial advisors use of social media leads to significant new business : Blogs on the way
You can add another regulated industry to the legal profession which is overcoming its fear of using social media for business development. Jennifer Hoyt Cummings (@BrokersWorld) reports in this morning’s Wall Street Journal’s Deal Journal that effectively using social media can lead to substantial new business for financial advisors. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney adviser Mark… Continue Reading
Is social media really lagging at large law firms?
‘LexisNexis Says Social Networking Lags at Large Firms,’ reports Evan Koblentz of Law Technology News following the release of LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell’s global audit of law firm engagement in social media. As evidence of large firm’s lagging use of social media LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell cites, in part, the lack of a like button on a law firm’s… Continue Reading
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : December 27, 2011
With many people taking today, or even the entire week off, you’d expect it to be slim pickings for the daily roundup. Not quite. Drawing on 127 posts, we have some great pieces from the Network’s authors, including Andrew Trask breaking down the top 10 class action cases of 2010 and Richard Kass on mistakes to… Continue Reading