Join our Legal Blogging Group at LinkedIn

LinkedIn’s become an effective way for me to further network with people, especially with folks I meet through the legal blogosophere. LinkedIn is heads and shoulders above other social networking sites when it comes to business and professional networking.

Taking things a step further I started a Legal Blogging Group so that practicing lawyers, law professors, law students, law librarians, legal marketing professionals, Legal IT folks, and others in our legal profession who are active bloggers (or thinking about it) could network with folks with similar interests whom they may never have run across. Sharing ideas. Collaboration. Advancing the law. All good stuff.

May be marketing lingo but I agree with LinkedIn’s version of why groups.

Many professionals advance their careers and business goals by counting on industry and professional groups, alumni organizations, industry conferences and corporate alumni groups to help them make vital new business contacts. LinkedIn Groups offers extra features to group-based organizations to help their members stay in touch with one another and discover powerful new business contacts within their groups and beyond. LinkedIn Groups allows event organizers and group organizations to extend their brand’s reach and strengthen the brand with existing users by providing additional value through LinkedIn’s features.

Who knows where the group is headed. But one thing we all know is that bloggers tend to be some of the nicest and most giving people you’d want to meet.

Legal bloggers are freely sharing legal information not only for the benefit of our profession, but also for the benefit of the public at large. It won’t hurt to have central rolodex with constantly updated profiles of bloggers within our profession. And expect to see coming features from LinkedIn that allow for improved collaboration.

Click here to join the group. I’ll receive and approve your request.

Thanks for the inspiration of Vickie Pynchon, who told me to start a LexBlog user group at LinkedIn and Mark Beese, who’s starting the Legal Marketing Group at LinkedIn gave me the idea for a starting a group open to all legal bloggers. As you know, I haven’t had an original idea in about 20 years.

And Vickie, we’ll get the LexBlog group going shortly.