Category: Blogs & RSS

From Larry Bodine’s Professional Services Marketing Blog: My esteemed colleague Ed Poll of Venice, CA, author of the LawBiz Blog, calculated what may be the true cost of a lawyer writing a blog: $20K a year in time. [Ed warns that] “blogging is certainly not “easy” in the sense that it takes commitment to be …

From BoleyBlogs: Fordham University School of Law has recently created LawClinic.TV, a video blog whose purpose is “to showcase the clinical community and provide a place for one piece of our ongoing conversation about legal education, justice, community, equality, the rule of law and so much else.” (via About LawClinic.TV) Each blog entry contains brief, …

Bloglines has recently announced that you can now listen to your podcast subscriptions directly in your list of feeds. This is pretty handy for the occasional podcast listener who either doesn’t have an iPod or other MP3 player or prefers not to download them. One thing to note, however: if you navigate your browser away …

Thanks to some great new blogs I learned about at the AALL Annual Meeting, the list of Law Library Blogs and Blogs by Law Librarians or Law Library Associations now stands at 102!

The Christian Science Monitor reports that Kentucky has blocked state employee’s access to “blogs as well as humor, religion, and online auction websites after it was deemed that [they] were spending too much time on the Internet.” This is a bad idea. Granted, there are lots of blogs that do nothing to advance work flow …

Connie Crosby has a nice article on The Truth About Blogging. Although it is aimed at librarians, the truths she shares are universal. She notes that “We often hear ‘to be seen as an expert, write a blog,’ but how quickly this medium opens doors has really been a great surprise to many.” I absolutely …

In the wake of moves by two big-name tech bloggers, Law.com has an interesting article on how to value a law firm blogger. Note the response by Kevin O’Keefe: “These recent moves should be wake up calls to law firms with high-profile lawyer bloggers. Many of your high-paid marketing and PR people have not a …

A while back I mentioned that I gave a talk about blogs at the Association of Legal Administrators Annual Meeting in Montreal last month. Upon the request of the editor of the Risk Management Memo, I’ve turned that presentation into an article entitled, Blogs: The Hot New Technology for Communication and Information. The article discusses …

From Kevin O’Keefe’s Real Lawyers Have Blogs: 21% of senior executives reports are reading business-related blogs at least once a week. This per a 2006 State of Corporate Blogging Survey, conducted by Harris Interactive and commissioned by Makovsky + Company, one of the largest global independent public relations firms in the U.S. Here’s a pdf …

Here’s the title of a recent post over at Human Law: Discuss – Librarian law bloggers are more astute than top law firms marketing departments about the blogosphere Enough said, I think. Source: Law.com Blog Network