Yesterday at our PLI program in San Francisco on social media for business development for lawyers one of the panelists said we’re not too far from the day when it will be an ethical requirement to use an RSS reader. The point was that it would be malfeasance for a lawyer to not stay abreast… Continue Reading
Category Archives: RSS & Syndication
Subscribe to RSS & Syndication RSS FeedRSS feeds make comeback with tablets and apps
Audiences are surprised when I tell them the most important part of social media is listening. I explain after a LinkedIn profile, the most important social media tool to use is a RSS reader. Social media is all about networking so as to build relationships and enhance your word of mouth reputation. Networking means listening… Continue Reading
Listening : First step in blogging by lawyers
Imagine you’re an estate planning lawyer in Des Moines looking to grow your practice. The marketing folks at Principal Park, home of the Triple A Des Moines Cubs, call to tell you that you’ll have free use of a luxury box for five of next year’s ball games. Better yet, they tell you they’ll arrange… Continue Reading
Better Blogging with an Efficient Google Reader
If you’re anything like many of us here at LexBlog, your Google Reader is jam-packed with hundreds of subscriptions and hundreds or thousands of unread items. For a new adopter especially, the constant stream of content can be overwhelming⎯maybe even enough to give up on using RSS. But using a reader is an essential and… Continue Reading
Use of RSS reader for timely news and info remains popular
When Bloglines, a popular web based RSS reader that launched in 2003, announced it was shutting down on October 1, discussion ensued that RSS was no longer a consumer experience, just a means to an end. The point being that RSS readers were not as popular with news and info being shared on Twitter, Facebook,… Continue Reading
25 blogs to help law firms stay up to speed with social media
Everything I’ve learned about blogging and social media, I’ve learned by reading, talking with people, attending conferences, and, of course, trial and error. The lions share of my learning has come from reading lots of blogs. Blogs I subscribe to in an RSS reader where I can browse headlines by folders I set up by… Continue Reading
Video : Google Reader in Plain English
Speaking to legal professionals around the country I suggest if you’re going to do one thing to get started down the road to social media that you get started with RSS. RSS is the oxygen giving life to content on the net. And it’s your RSS reader which allows you to receive content, whether by… Continue Reading
Circulation drop at major US newspapers is opportunity for law bloggers
Circulation declines are accelerating at America’s major newspapers, with all but two of the 25 largest U.S. showing declines for the last six months. This per the Wall Street Journal’s Russel Adams this morning. Weekday circulation at 507 newspapers fell 4.6%…, compared with a 2.6% decline in the same period a year earlier, according to… Continue Reading
Your law blog posts get higher profile at Wall Street Journal
With the redesign of the Wall Street Journal, law blog posts from lawyers around the country are getting higher profile. Practicing lawyers posting on their blog yesterday received equal billing this morning with stories from The New York Times and Chicago Tribune in the Wall Street Journal’s ‘Breaking Law Stories from Around the Web.’ Look… Continue Reading
Pileggi rocks the Wall Street Journal again
Okay, Francis Pileggi, a Delaware corporate litigation lawyer, didn’t exactly rock the WSJ. But the Journal did pick up another one of his blog posts in it’s ‘Stories from the Web’ in the Law Section of the online Journal. As an influential law blogger on corporate issues, Pileggi’s’s blog posts keep popping up all around… Continue Reading
Wall Street Journal continues run of syndicated law blog content
The Wall Street Journal is continuing to run syndicated law blog content in the law section of the online Journal. Maybe it’s just me being from a small town in the Midwest, but I get pretty jazzed seeing people come to my blog from the Journal. Reach the Law Section of the WSJ by clicking… Continue Reading
Advertising on RSS feeds a plus for lawyer blogs and legal publishing
Zachary Rodgers on the The ClickZ Network had an interesting piece this week on RSS advertising showing signs of life. This bodes well for the legal industry, not necessarily with each lawyer picking up a enough in ad revenue for an extra pint a week, but in other respects. First the key points from Rodgers’… Continue Reading
Wall Street Journal starts running your syndicated law blog posts
If you haven’t started noticing traffic coming to your law blog from the Wall Street Journal already, you soon may. I’m already seeing traffic from the WSJ and so are a number of LexBlog clients. How? The Wall Street Journal is now running in its law section syndicated law blog posts from influential law blogs…. Continue Reading
Law blog posts displayed in LinkedIn home page news
LexBlog client, Vickie Pynchon, publisher of the Settle it Now and the IP ADR blogs asked yesterday why she was getting traffic to particular blog posts of hers from the home page at LinkedIn. She didn’t see any of her blog posts displayed on her home page at LinkedIn. I explained LinkedIn is displaying blog… Continue Reading
What is a feed reader, how does it work, and why use one?
David Williams RSS Tutorial at Create Business Growth offers lawyers just learning about blogs and RSS a nice explanation of how slick RSS is. Most importantly, David explains you don’t need to understand how to create RSS feeds or what they’re all about technically, to stream your favorite content into one place via a feed… Continue Reading