Blogging
Navel gazing
There’s too much navel gazing by bloggers – blogging about blogging; but, as my business is legal information publishing and blogs are a key part of that now, I think I’m entitled to gaze deep into my navel. Following my interview with Rob La Gatta at Lexblog, I’ve been thinking more about the questions he […]
Lexblog Q & A
Rob La Gatta, Editorial Manager at Lexblog, has already conducted and published on Real Lawyers Have Blogs numerous interviews with leading names in the field of law firm blogging and web marketing. These Q & As deliver structured, in-depth thoughts on the issues law firms should be addressing with regard to their web presence. Latest […]
Hats off to Charon QC
I finally succumbed to Charon QC‘s invitation to be be interviewed for his series of podcasts – in Podcast 37, wherein we discuss infolaw, blawging and the future direction of law publishing. One day on and he has already put out another individual podcast and the second of his Weekend Review podcasts in which several […]
He couldn’t have said it better himself
I came across the following hilarious garbage, scraped from Kevin O’Keefe’s post about my FamilyLawPipe and translated into … what? Family accumulation pipes? Nick Holmes, a business consultant specializing in the UK jural sector, has created a FamilyLawPipe aggregating UK kinsfolk accumulation feeds with character Pipes. From Nick: —Yahoo Pipes is a assist from character […]
Pimp your own ride
Steve Matthews believes there will be a big increase soon in the use of blog software to build websites. Agreed. I’ve already said a lot about the benefits of blogging for networking and raising profile. You may not be convinced; you may not see yourself as a “thought leader”; you may not want to hang […]
The Network in 2008
This year Web 2.0 came of age. Blogs, wikis, photo sharing, video sharing, social networking, social this, social that, SaaS: all these services have developed at phenomenal pace. In particular, the Facebook craze burst out of its collegiate limitations and has gained traction even amongst lawyers; at the SCL conference in June, half the delegates […]
Who goes to the top? – you decide
The ABA Journal Blawg 100 are “the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal.” Kevin O’Keefe reacts to this with a star post Law Blog vanity contests : ABA adds to the silliness: to get sucked into believing a contest like the ABA Journal’s 100 […]
Jumping ship? Sound the last post
Scott Vine, the Informationoverlord, has a smart new WordPress blog. He uses a stylish theme and a rather fetching graphic for his RSS feed. Although the blog remains at the same address, the feed has a new URL. What Scott did right is that he posted a final “moving on” item on his old Blogger […]
Blogs v websites (with RSS)
Banging on about the benefits of blogs is not the sole preserve of Binary Law. Kevin O’Keefe, leading US champion of blogs for lawyers, does it constantly and persuasively. Today he succinctly summarises why large law firm blogs beat law firm websites with RSS feeds.
Thought leadership through blogging
Steve Matthews posts a considered article on Slaw on Thought Leadership – the selling of ‘expertise’ that has always been a crucial element to legal marketing – through blogging: The results that can be achieved … have been repeatedly demonstrated with current blogging leaders, and are difficult to refute: Increased media exposure; A devoted referral […]
Oh dear!
Ed at Blawg Review has pulled me up for supplying only 6 best blawgs: There is no rule that you are not to include a blog already named by another. In fact, it’s encouraged, as those most deserving of the acknowledgment will be given it from many other top bloggers who have been nominated. So, […]
Have news? – blog it!
I said in my state of UK blawging post that blog-like functions will increasingly be incorporated into all websites. I should have added that the best way to do this is using blog software rather than your own CMS. Why? 1) Blog software provides you out of the box with all the functionality you need […]
Simply the best
I have been tagged by Charon QC to name 10 blawgs I consider the best, continuing the meme started by the editor of Blawg Review. As most involved have said, this is difficult. There are several blogs I do not follow closely, being outside my main sphere of interest, but which I recognise as top […]
UK blawgs – where are we now?
Although a handful of UK law bloggers were active before 2006, it was only then that the UK blawgosphere started to take off. Since then, new law blogs have continued to appear at the rate of about one a week. On infolaw I catalogue all known UK law blogs (plus a small number of notable […]
Effective blogging (for lawyers)
Adapted from an earlier article and published September 2007 in the Axxia Newsletter. In the last issue we looked at reasons why lawyers should blog. Here we consider the “how to” of effective blogging. Blogging services provide the forms and templates that enable you to publish a blog site with little or no expertise: you […]
