Getting inspiration for law blogging

As a law blogger or someone sitting on the fence a good place to find inspiration is other bloggers.

The bloggers need not be blogging on the law. Non-law blogs may be the best place to start. They’ll get you outside the routine of the law.

I usually use  a news aggregator (Mr Reader) to follow blogs and other news sources on, among other things, blogging and social media. I share on Twitter the articles that’ll help law bloggers and other professionals.

This week I tried something different, I headed over to Flipboard. I “flipped” through two of the topics I subscribe to, “bloggers” and “blogging.”

What a wonderful experience. Countless posts and articles regarding blogging. I shared some of the better ones on Twitter.

Best of all, I left inspired by the bloggers.

A musician telling us how to network with influential bloggers, “Dad Bloggers” memorializing the loss of one of their own, a software company listing the top 35 privacy/security blogs, a college communications’ student sharing 15 ways real bloggers solve their greatest challenges and an ebook provider sharing a lengthy and detailed ebook on beginning to blog.

That’s just part of what I discovered. If you are looking for the posts and links, check out my Twitter feed from Monday night.

Learn from other bloggers no matter their station in life or what they do for a living. They needn’t be lawyers. Learn from their tips and ideas, but more importantly find inspiration.

So many people are out there blogging to achieve more in their lives. Coming from all walks of life the only thing they have in common is blogging. Blogging to learn, to connect, to build relationships, to build a reputation as an authority and to grow their business.

Some are looking to earn money directly from their blogging. They may offer ideas and inspiration, but as a lawyer you already have a business model – charging for legal services.

Check out Flipboard. As a marketing or communications professional get your blogging lawyers to do so.

Of course you can follow topics on an area of the law or business, but follow “blogging” and “bloggers” for blogging know how and inspiration.

As way of background, Flipboard acts as a news aggregator collecting blog posts and articles via RSS feeds and Twitter. The user can select topics to follow by searching on subjects. Flipboard will then suggest both other topics to follow and “magazines” on the topic. The magazines are created by other Flipboard users by tagging articles on Flipboard.

The Flipboard interface of “flipping” through magazine like pages provides a user experience that’s unmatched as a reading experience. Though best experienced on an iPad or iPhone, Flipboard is available on non-mobile devices.

Get outside the law. Check out the global blogging community for information and inspiration.

Image courtesy of Flickr by Brian Koprowski