Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Law.com has created a guide to Best Practices for Legal Blogging. Why should you care? From the article: As the use of blogs as a marketing tool proliferates among lawyers, differences in quality between blogs covering the same topic will become evident. There are only so many blogs that prospective clients can read on a …
Looking for a few good titles to add to your summer reading list? Check out MADreads, a new blog from the Madison Public Library. Each day they’ll feature a new fiction or nonfiction book review from a Madison Public Library staff member. Reviews are archived by genre.
Ken Strutin, Director of Legal Information Services for the New York State Defenders Association, has compiled a nice summary of how blogs have been considered by the courts. The article, “Blogs Raise New Questions About the Line Between Public and Private,” appears in the Technology Today section (page 5) of the May 9, 2006 New …
As a follow-up to my presentation on blogs at their annual meeting last week, the Association of Legal Administrators invited me to participate in a forum on blogs. I’d like to share one of the questions I received: Question: If a blog is as good as an intranet for communicaions with staff, why not stick …
I’m just back from Montreal where I had the pleasure to speak at the Association of Legal Administrators Annual Meeting on Monday afternoon. As promised, here are the PowerPoint slides from my session. “Blogs: The Hot New Technology for Communication and Information.” I thought that the session was very well attended and was pleased to …
Reuters reports that the Los Angeles Times has suspended the blog of a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who posed as an Internet reader to defend his own column and attack his conservative foes. Source: TVC Alert
From the Capital Times: UW–Madison journalism students will present a panel discussion about blogging and the ethics of blogging at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in Room 2195 of Vilas Hall. The discussion will be titled “Connect or Compete: How do bloggers fit with traditional media?” The panel will discuss ethical issues related to blogging and take …
According to the Boston Globe, blogs are essential to a good career. In a nutshell, the article advises that blogging helps a professional stand out among her peers. Employers regularly Google prospective employees to learn more about them. Blogging gives you a way to control what employers see, because Google’s system works in such a …
The UW E-Business Consortium’s Corporate Weblogging Best Practices is a must for any firm or business that has a blog or is thinking about starting one. Actually, it’s worthwhile for any firm or business wanting to protect its reputation in the blogosphere. This paper is intended for various audiences including executives faced with the decision …
An observation by Jesse Russell of Dane101: It occurs to me that the word blog is becoming to bloggers what the word smurf was to Smurfs. “I saw the bloggingest blog the other day. It was bloggingly bloggy.” Read more about Jesse’s bloggy thoughts on the WisPolitics.com blog summit.