This Christmas marks seventeen Christmases of blogs and RSS for me.
Blogs represented the democratization of publishing for me in 2003.
RSS was the radio signal that enabled bloggers to “broadcast” and have their signal received on a RSS reader on other’s computers.
A personal publishing press on your computer for which your copy was
Should legal tech companies looking to build the best solutions be seeking the input of lawyers?
Frank Ready of Legal Tech News writes today that lawyers want ‘easier’ technology, but legal tech companies aren’t sure what that means. The irregularity and hastiness which feedback does come has left product developers hungry for insights into the
Of course I have a dog in this hunt, and maybe I am being less than creative with a post on this topic, but hear me out on something that seams to be common sense.
Lawyers and law firms are not well served in setting up their own blog sites.
On Reddit someone asked this
I’ve been on the road interviewing successful law bloggers the last couple weeks and I’ll continue with more at the end of this week.
I’ll start to post the interviews on a LexBlog YouTube Channel and here on my blog within the next week.
By successful law blogger, I’m referring to lawyers who have built
As a managed WordPress platform for legal publishers, LexBlog runs a WordPress development shop.
Not as web agencies do with custom web development, which is tough to scale for the developer and the customer, but to perform the WordPress development work for our managed WordPress platform which supports all of our legal bloggers.
Plugins, upgrades
Over on Reddit, an authority asked about linking to books, other blogs and transcripts of podcasts on a blog they were starting.
They wanted to put their spin on what others were saying and writing. Their intent was to link to the authority as part of their commentary.
Like the law, the subject of the
Want to rekindle that belief with which you entered law school?
That being that lawyers can change things for the better – even if it’s one person at a time. That lawyers provide access to justice to those most in need.
Create a Twitter list of bar association Twitter accounts. Heck, subscribe to mine.
Skim
ROSS Intelligence announced last week that it was giving law students and faculty free access to its AI legal research platform. The move was part of the company’s mission to improve the delivery of legal services.
In its announcement, ROSS made a couple points that are applicable to technology companies, in general, introducing their solutions
All the talk at conferences, in articles and on websites is on the legal professional getting something from their blogging.
Web stats, leads, search engine rankings, increased revenue and what have you. It’s the same old me/me/me approach to publishing.
Even when lawyers are told to keep the audience in mind, it’s for their personal
Many lawyers who have a law blog probably have no idea they have a law blog.
I am serious.
Many of the law blogs I see, and I use the word “blog” liberally, are a page on a website filled with a lot of content.
The blogs are not titled anything more than “blog.” No