Fred Wilson has a wonderful post today on what can only be described as Digital Darwinism, a phrase coined by Evan Schwartz as the title for his 1999 book.
The news is full of stories this year end about the impending bankruptcies of retailers, newspapers, auto manufacturers, banks, and a host of other businesses
Discussion of whether Martindale-Hubbell is dropping its lawyer ratings system is running rampant on Twitter today. The original discussion on Martindale-Hubbell lawyer ratings began on the blogosphere last evening.
In addition to well respected legal voices on the blogsphere and Twitter, the discussion involves some major players. Heavy influencers of opinions within the legal industry.
That’s the question asked by Heather Milligan on word of Martindale-Hubbell’s elimination of their Rating Specialists.
Milligan, Director of Marketing at Barger & Wolen LLP and leading contributor to the Legal Marketing Association received an e-mail on Friday from a peer at LexisNexis’ Martindale-Hubbell division notifying her that not only was she let go
The LA Times online has grown its revenues to the point where they cover the cost of paper’s entire editorial payroll. And Neilsen Net Ratings reports the LA Times has passed USA Today and the Washington Post in uniques with, according to internal numbers, 138 million page views in November, up more than 70% in
Blogging has entered the mainstream says an article from The Economist I’ve been meaning to share with you.
The article provides ammunition and hope for those of you getting law firm partners, managing partners, and executive committees to accept that you’re not nuts for advising your firm to start blogging.
The transition per the article:
I’m getting sick of lawyers leaving comments here under the name ‘DC Divorce Lawyer’ or ‘Injury Lawyer.’ Is that what your kids call you? Is that how you get introduced when speaking to a group? You mean you use your real name. Amazing.
Why not have the decency to use your name when participating in
Social media and social networking is the all the buzz in the lawyer marketing world. Every place I presented this year on ‘Social Networking for Law Firms’ told me they had the largest attendance, or close to the largest, they’ve ever had. And it’s not my looks.
At the first few presentations I tried to
On Twitter.
I used to publish 10 to 15 blog posts a week. The last couple weeks? About 1 or 2 posts a week. The reason? I’ve been spending an hour or two a day on Twitter.
Despite some lawyers not getting Twitter yet, Law blogging pioneer, Denise Howell, gets it right.
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Speaking to legal professionals around the country I suggest if you’re going to do one thing to get started down the road to social media that you get started with RSS. RSS is the oxygen giving life to content on the net.
And it’s your RSS reader which allows you to receive content, whether by
Law firm marketing and business development professionals have been politely getting after Kevin McKeown, our VP of Client Development, for an updated report on large law’s use of blogs. Innovators, such as Gloria Fox at Blank Rome, are looking for hard data for their law firm’s management that their competition has effectively addressed any liability and ROI concerns, and made the move to blogging for reputation enhancement and client development.
The last eight months shows no slow down in the growth of blogging among large law. Among the 85 new blogs, we’ve got new firm entries on the blogosphere, including Foley Hoag (3 blogs) and Epstein Becker Green (3 blogs), as well as innovative law firms such as Fox Rothschild, Sheppard Mullin, and Womble Carlyle who continue to add their stable of law blogs by different practice area.
71, or 35%, of the 2008 AmLaw 200 law firms are now blogging compared with 39 in August 2007, when LexBlog issued its first State of the AmLaw Blogosphere. The number of Amlaw 200 law firm blogs being published by these firms has more than doubled growing from 74 to 159.
In just the last 8 months since LexBlog issued its second State of the AmLaw Blogosphere in March of this year, the number of AmLaw law firms blogging has jumped 33%.
For large law firms looking to brand their law firm blogs, LexBlog remains the blog publishing platform of choice. 79% of the AmLaw law firm branded blogs are running on the the LexBlog publishing platform.
Growth highlights:
And in the numbers:
See a list of all the blogging AmLaw200 firms, with links to their individual blogs, after the jump.