Lisa's takeaways from my presentation:

• Blogs are good idea for lawyers. Especially if they want to package their legal musings in a zippy, readable way, shine up their firm's reputation and attract reporters looking for expert sources.
• While not every individual lawyer has a flair for the conversational writing style that is the mainstay of a popular blog, "every type of practice area and every firm could benefit from blogging."
• Lawyers should become familiar with social networking sites LinkedIn, Legal On Ramp, YouTube and Facebook.
• There are 2,000 law blogs today, and every day, four new law blogs are created.
• 75 percent of reporters scan blogs to find experts for articles -- which in turn could mean pretty valuable exposure to a lawyer and a firm.
• Law firms are part of the media today. If you don't put information out there where it can be seen by influencers, then you're really missing something.

Thanks for the report Lisa, especially the plug that LexBlog '...[Coaches lawyers on how best to present their blogs in terms of design, marketing and writing style -- so that they enhances their firms' reputations rather than damage them." She added "We're not going to let [law firms] embarrass themselves."

Thanks to the New England Chapter of the Legal Marketing Association and its President, Jeff Scalzi, Director of Marketing at Foley Hoag. First class event attended by what I understand was record crowd of over 80 legal marketing professionals.

Click here for a copy of my PowerPoint presentation . The PowerPoint may not mean too much as the presentation drifted to subjects of keen interest to the audience.

Looks like I am doing encore presentations for Legal Marketing Chapters in Cleveland, Portland, and Seattle. If you need a speaker to cover a fun and what appears to be an in demand topic, give me a call. I'm cheap. ;)

Presented at Legal Marketing Association yesterday. Large crowd of about 80 folks. Reviewed state of blogs and large law and the social networking tools law firms may want to use - and which ones that don't require their attention.

Followed with more informal briefing and discussion on similar topics with large law firm I hope to be working with. They've got excellent group of marketing people working with lawyers driven to use blogs and other social networking.

Out for a run along on the Charles earlier and now up towards financial district or Cambridge to hopefully meet with some folks.

Emmet's Pub at 6 is the plan. Emmets is located at 6 Beacon Street. Bob says to email him to confirm details (his last at gmail.com).

In that I'm coming all the way from Seattle, Bob said the least Bostonians could do was buy me a beer. But in the LexBlog tradition started last month in Chicago, beer for bloggers is on us. Don't any tell Weston, LexBlog's CFO.

Anyone up for an 'impromptu' blogging lawyers meetup Wednesday evening April 16? We could meet for beers after work or maybe dinner somewhere convenient for anyone.

Just an idea at this point. But one of the joys of blogging is getting to meet all you guys - first online and then, when possible, in person.