The work we’ve been doing at LexBlog on our aggregation and curation software, necessitated by the volume of content published on the pandemic, has me wondering about “aggregated publishing” by law firms and lawyers versus the constant focus on getting eyeballs to to their publications directly.
Leading legal professionals have a ton of niche expertise
I was in Boston on 9/11. Unable to fly home to Seattle, I drove my rental car down through Conneticutt onto Northern Manhattan the afternoon of 9/12 or 9/13, I am not sure which.
As a New York City native and an American, I had this fealing, being on the East Coast, I should try
I am a social creature. I get joy in life doing things with other people, particularly helping people.
Heck, when I stumbled into the net twenty-five years ago in the form of AOL, it was the best of both worlds. Engaging people and helping thousands of people who had questions on personal injury, workers comp,
The challenges most of us are facing with the pandemic, such as social distancing, are minimal compared to someone getting the virus, the small businesses being closed, workers without jobs, people losing their health insurance, and people not being able to care for their loved ones because they’re prohibited from entering a hospital, rehab center
Most lawyers work piecemeal by the hour. We develop skill in a niche. Develop a book of business or market to get more work in the area. And then do the work, though varying in some degree, time and again.
I am not saying that’s bad. As lawyers, we do a lot of good things
LinkedIn, Reddit, or Facebook, what will it be as a learning center on legal blogging? All are options.
I’m a big believer in the open net for purposes of discussion, asking questions, learning the advancement of ideas.
I suppose this comes from the wonderful discussions that blossomed on niche areas of the law across Prodigy,
No surprise that professionals on the LexBlog network are reporting and commenting on the coronavirus pandemic. The question arises how LexBlog, as leading legal publisher should “report” on the pandemic by virtue of aggregating and curating relevant coverage.
When we started running LexBlog.com as a publication of aggregated and curated blog posts shining a light
With over 25,000 legal columnists in the form of legal bloggers, LexBlog is no doubt in the the publishing business.
Our business model has never been around subscriptions, advertising or, God-forbid, charging people to distribute their content. Our business model has always been licensing publishing software.
A blog publishing platform, a portal platform for syndication
Traveling to Europe a few times for work over the last couple years made me realize just how myopic I’ve been in looking at the size our market.
Until traveling overseas, I looked at the U.S. as our market. We could go down and up in law firm size for customers, we could develop new
I’m headed to Chicago next week for the ABA TechShow. I’ll be in Chicago Wednesday through Saturday morning.
TechShow is as much about the people and companies as it is about the conference itself. The organizers should be proud of what they have accomplished here.
TechShow appears to have made a concerted effort to bring