Author: Nick Holmes
We are all (micro) publishers now
Proposals for incentives as part of a new system of independent, self-regulation of the press have been refined to make sure “micro-business” blogs are outside of the scheme. [DCMS news story] I’m checking out the pretty chart and wondering why this malarky has been made so complicated. Why single out bloggers anyway as you then […]
Simpler, clearer, faster (maybe)
So the the GOV.UK site from the Government Digital Service won the Designs of the Year 2013 award. This is proving to be somewhat divisive: FOR are those designers who appreciate its “agile, user-centred design” AGAINST are those who like a pretty website, and UNDECIDED are those like me who would like to be FOR […]
Give me my life back!
[^ What’s this? ^] Bad news recently … or is it? Google is retiring Google Reader, used by millions of news junkies, including self, but sidelined at Googleplex in recent years in favour of development of Google+. This follows the general trend of users away from feed reading to Twitter and other streaming update services. […]
Precedents on Disk (way back)
Consider the WP scene in the mid-80s when I first produced Precedents on Disk for what was then Longman Law Tax & Finance (since purchased by Sweet & Maxwell). We catered for the most common word processor formats of the day, including dedicated word processors like IBM Displaywriter, Decmate, Wang and Wordplex; DOS (PC) word […]
Outreach
Hi there, [well, hello!] I hope you are well and are having a good week. [you care?] I’m contacting you from xxx, a content agency based in xxx. [content? uh oh!] We came across your site and we really like it [well, thanks!] and in fact we work with a number of clients that would […]
What’s up GOV?
Have you visited GOV.UK yet? If you’ve recently used any government service you will probably have been directed to GOV.UK. On 17 October 2012 it replaced Directgov and Business Link as the place to go for government services. And on 15 November the first government departmental and agency websites started their migration to the Inside […]
Lord Neuberger on access to judgments
On 20 November Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court, delivered the First Annual BAILII Lecture, entitled No Judgment – No Justice (PDF) in which he dealt with three important aspects of improving access to justice through improved access to judgments: their clarity, free dissemination and enhancement. His intro para is worth quoting here in […]
Why is everyone talking about content marketing?
It’s likely you’ve heard a lot of talk recently about “content marketing”. What’s that? You might turn to Wikipedia for an explanation: Content marketing is an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation and sharing of content in order to attract, acquire and engage clearly defined and understood current and potential consumer […]
Socially useless
A recent story/scandal I keep being drawn back to is that of Grant Shapps, Tory party co-chairman, former housing minister and former (result!) web enrepreneur and marketing guru, aka Michael Green, now, vicariously, aka Sebastian Fox. I’m quite happy to acknowledge that making millions from his [wife’s] web businesses qualifies him/her as a successful entrepreneur. […]
Wall of shame – vacuous and inaccurate free legal content
Nearly Legal has a beef about sub-standard “free legal content”. I’m with him. In Part 1 he looks at two services who peddle useless “legal” information for their own gain for SEO purposes. His exemplars are firstly Forward3D, an SEO agent for Irwin Mitchell, who wonder if he might “be interested in sharing some unique […]
Wall of shame – some comments I have trashed
You really should check what your SEO company are doing for you. A new comment on the post “Google+ thoughts so far” is waiting for your approval https://www.binarylaw.co.uk/index.php/2011/07/18/google-thoughts-so-far/ Author : Solicitors Stockport (IP: 80.2.150.21 , cpc1-stkp8-2-0-cust532.10-2.cable.virginmedia.com) E-mail : mortons@binkmail.com URL : http://www.mortons-solicitors.co.uk Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=80.2.150.21 Comment: I like Google Plus. Its definately having an […]
Data protection intrigue
I was intrigued to see that DLA Piper has just published Data Protection Laws of the World. This 274-page PDF handbook “offers a high-level snapshot of national data protection laws as they currently stand in 58 jurisdictions across the world. It provides a quick overview of the aspects of data protection law that are often […]
Scooping up work online with the “long tail”
I received a Press Release today. Normally these go straight in the bin, but this one grabbed my attention as it was good advice and the accompanying Top 10 SEO tips are spot on. Research carried out by digital marketing specialists Add People for leading Manchester PR agency RMS shows that law firms are more […]
The search engines will find you
By far the best advice I have seen recently on SEO for law firms (well for anyone really) comes from North American legal web gurus Steve Matthews of Stem Legal and Robert Ambrogi in their article Optimizing Your Online Shingle: On-Page and Off-Page Best Practices published in the ABA’s Law Practice Magazine last summer. The […]
ICLR online – who’s putting it through its paces?
I’m wondering who’s using ICLR online and how they’re getting on? The service launched 18 October to a list of over 350 delegates that was “fairly select and exclusive due to the nature of our Council”. Before the event no doubt there was lots of direct mail and email promotion by ICLR to its customer […]
