Blogging
Be social – blog smart
Steve Matthews of Stem is one of the leading thinkers when it comes to web marketing for lawyers. He has this to say about how to “be social” with blogs: For me, the social side of blogging involves a number of tactics, things like: blogroll links to your peers; not just writing your own thoughts, […]
It’s a legal information world
The Information World Review Blog posts an interview with James Mullen, Information Officer at CMS Cameron McKenna and author of LI Issues. He speaks for many serious blawgers in saying that his blog has exposed him to many individuals and organisations he may never have encountered otherwise. Thanks to James for mentioning Binary Law along […]
Faceless
I feel no inclination to network on Facebook. Loads of business and professional people are supposedly doing so now. But what job will it get done better for me? I’m hugely in favour of using social software tools to do useful jobs. But we’re caught up in a frenzy of interest in “huge massively multi-user […]
Cutting the mustard
Every now and then I’m prompted to revisit the question “What is a blog?” I won’t rehash all my thinking here. Let’s instead consider the rather circular argument: a website produced with blog software is a blog. This must be true in 99% of cases, though it’s quite possible to produce a site with blog […]
Joining the conversation
First Published July 2007 in the Axxia Newsletter. Few readers can be oblivious to the buzz surrounding “social media” (aka Web 2.0) that has grown in recent years. The term encompasses an increasing range of services that enable people to share, contribute and collaborate on the web, transforming it from a publishing platform and glorified […]
Facing the future
Last Friday/Saturday I attended the SCL Web 2.0 conference in Oxford where speakers and panellists included technology lawyers from large practices, lawyers from Web 2.0 companies, a venture capitalist, an academic and our deputy from the ICO. The majority of the delegates were from large law firms – there to learn what this Web 2.0 […]
By George
Martin George has outed himself as author of the blog formerly known as Legal Scribbles, saying: I would rather be open and honest about my identity. I don’t write about my personal life, nor do I touch on overtly sensitive topics …, so there is no good reason to hide behind a domain name. I […]
Employee bloggers risk dismissal
OUT-Law.com reports that more than a third of employees who keep personal blogs are posting information about their employer, workplace or colleagues and risk dismissal, according to YouGov research commissioned by Croner. OUT-Law provides plenty of advice on employee blogging and related policies in its guidance notes on: Staff and their personal blogs Legal risks […]
All Blogs at the barcouncil (sic)
Thanks to the vigilant Charon QC for first spotting that the Bar Council has a blog on its new-look website. That’s to be welcomed; the more conversation the merrier, I say. But I do think the launch of a new blog by such a high profile “corporate” should have been handled with a little more […]
Geeklawyer to toe the line
Hot on the heels of Petite Anglaise’s success at a Paris Employment Tribunal whereat she was held unfairly dismissed simply for blogging and being an employee at the same time, Geeklawyer has enjoyed somewhat more modest success in being permitted by the Bar Council to continue blogging and remain a barrister provided he mends his […]
Things come together
A number of bloggers have commented on the number of new blawgs that have recently appeared. So we are it seems progressing predictably faster along the lower reaches of that bell curve. In typical fashion Geeklawyer welcomes more law bloggers … cautiously: He’s sympathetic to free markets to a point and he welcomes, at an […]
Another faux trainee blog
This time from Winckworth Sherwood. In its loosest sense a blog is simply an online diary with posts presented in reverse chronological order. On this definition, this is a blog. So why do I take issue? Because 55 million bloggers define a blog as much more than this and you do yourself no favours by […]
Mind the gap
In response to the suggestion that the the number of abandoned blogs one comes across these days signals that “the (law) blogging phenomenon may have peaked“, Kevin O’Keefe is right on when he says that “Nothing could be further from the truth. Law blogs are in their infancy.” Other business-minded bloggers agree: Justin Patten believes […]
Developments in legal information
First published January 2007 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. Here are some of the key developments in the field of (free) legal information provision in 2006 and some predictions for 2007. The Statute Law Database After a 10-year wait, the Statute Law Database was finally released to the public just in time for Christmas. […]
e-Newsletters – RIP (2)
Further to my earlier post consigning e-newsletters to the watebasket, Kevin O’Keefe explains clearly why there’s little, if any, viral marketing effect from law firm newsletters.
