As I’ve said numerous times, including in yesterday’s roundup, it is Supreme Court season both in Washington, DC and on LexBlog Network as our members have been on a tear when it comes to providing detailed analysis of major decisions. It’s impossible for me to accurately describe, so do go visit LXBN’s Supreme Court section… Continue Reading
Law firms need to be publishing blogs and using LinkedIn : Bloomberg Law TV interview with John Corey
If you’re a law firm, you need to be publishing blogs and using LinkedIn. That’s the word from Lee Pacchia (@leepacchia), WebTV Host at Bloomberg Law, in wrapping his interview with John Corey (@jecorey), President and Founding Partner of Green Target Global Group. Pacchia was interviewing Corey about the 2013 In-House Counsel New Media Engagement Survey… Continue Reading
Will social networks sink in a sea of legal industry spam?
Business networking strategist, Andy Lopata (@andylopata), asked yesterday in the Huffington Post, “Will LinkedIn sink in a sea of spam?” As the owner of a group on LinkedIn I have to waste a frustrating amount of time moderating spam posts in the discussion forum. The spam will range from completely unrelated posts dumped in the… Continue Reading
Worried your lawyers will blog or share something stupid online? Don’t be
Many lawyers and law firms don’t blog or use other social media out of fear they’ll write something they’ll regret. Is this self inflicted paralysis warranted? No, according to research (pdf) performed by Carnegie Mellon PhD student Sauvik Das and Facebook’s Adam Kramer. Seventy one percent of all the [Facebook] users surveyed engaged in some self-censorship either on… Continue Reading
LinkedIn’s acquisition of Pulse : Media company or better networking?
LinkedIn has agreed to buy Pulse, a newsreader app that aggregates online sources, including your social networks, for $90 million. Not bad for the two Pulse founders who met while students at Stanford in 2010. Pulse is similar in nature to Zite and Flipboard, though I have never found its interface as pleasing or it’s… Continue Reading
General counsel love law blogs
Mark Beese (@mbeese), a leadership and business development consultant for lawyers, shares five takeaways for lawyers from last week’s Legal Marketing Association Annual Conference. Number one is general counsel love blogs. Nearly half of all general counsel surveyed by Inside Counsel magazine reported they had visited a legal blog over the past week. In the… Continue Reading
Be an intelligence agent : Get information outside the conversation silo
Serving as intelligence agent is an excellent way of establishing yourself as a reliable and trusted authority in a niche area of the law. Let me share some context on what I mean. Before social media in the form of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and more, we had blogs. Blogs to share information and insight, and… Continue Reading
Flipboard : 3 million new users since launch of personalized magazines
Two weeks ago Flipboard, a social network aggregation magazine, released a new feature allowing users to create personalized magazines. Each of us essentially became a magazine editor with the power to pull individual sources, subjects, and stories into one magazine available to others. The result? Half a million personalized magazines have been created and Flipboard… Continue Reading
Traffic is not the measure of a law blog’s influence
Among much more, I took two things away from the Legal Marketing Association Annual Conference this week. One, blogs are now widely accepted as an effective business development tool for law firms and two, law firms and companies selling marketing solutions to law firms believe the primary purpose of a blog is to generate traffic… Continue Reading
SEC’s guidance on social media and the new NLRB appointees are trending on LXBN this week
Social media in a corporate setting, and the National Labor Relations Board—yep, those are both right in the LexBlog Network’s wheelhouse. It should come as no surprise then that each of these two stories have generated the most conversation on LXBN this week. Last week, the Seecurities and Exchange Commission released guidance on social media use… Continue Reading