Thanks to Sabrina Spacifici’s BeSpacific mention of Intro to Weblogs for Law Firm Marketing, I’ve heard from many folks including Jerry Lawson, whose article Web Logs for Lawyers is most interesting for its discussion of web logs effect on search …
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From the Jupiter ClickZ Web Log Conference, John Palfrey had this afterthought regarding law firm Reed Smith allowing Denise Howell the freedom to publish Bag & Baggage… “…It’s great to see a big, global law firm supporting this sort of …
Denise Howell of Bag & Baggage provided terrific play-by-play reporting of day one of the ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies conference. For those of us who could not attend, it’s almost like being there. For more reports see Corante on Blogging …
george w. bush : jason blair wmd’s : quotes united nations : new york times a just war : a good story (see Worse Than Watergate? by John Dean ) john dean : watergate __________ : iraq (will the new …
Funny how things work. Now that the FCC media ownership vote is past, it’s getting lots of press. Is it a case of “it ain’t over till it’s over?” (FCC Rule Fight Continues in Congress) or a case of “closing …
My article in Strategies, The Legal Marketing Journal has been published, so I’m providing a link as promised. This links to an expanded version of that article on my web site with this outtake: “Today’s tech savvy legal services marketers …
Wow. It’s working… In today’s Washington Post, an article titled FCC Plan to Alter Media Rules Spurs Growing Debate states… “In recent days, the FCC has been inundated with hundreds of thousands of e-mails and e-petitions. MoveOn.org, a public-interest organization… …
Just wanted to elevate this nugget from Jill Walker’s Links and Power article referenced in my previous post. “Links have a direct value on the Web and can be seen as a pseudo-monetary unit. A Google search on currency of …
A One-Month Status Report After one month since starting this web log, I’ve had more than 1,650 visits, placing me around the 43th spot on the Top 100 list. Pretty amazing for an unknown artist. The Community What’s been interesting …
Donna Wentworth has been busy collecting required reading on media conglomeration. You’ll find these items referenced elsewhere, but I’m so fond of them I just gotta add to their “link strength” here. Krugman on Media Concentration – and the paradox …
A News Hour with Jim Lehrer piece (Apri 28) on Weblogging poses this question, with this important outtake from Joan Connell (executive producer, MSNBC.com) who says that at least hers are: “One of the values that we place on our …
Actions speak louder than blogs If you want to do something other than moan about the upcoming FCC vote on media ownership, then contact your congressperson, and get your friends to do the same. Go to www.mediareform.net to learn more, …
Donna Wentworth nicely sums up the urgent issue at the FCC concerning media conglomeration in her Copyfight weblog entry titled Media Concentration: Out from Under the Wire. In addition to the resources she offers, add the News Hour with Jim …
This article in the E-Commerce Times points to the fundamental infrastructure of blogs as limiting their portability and therefore acceptance as an enterprise tool. A composite outtake teaser below: “…While the actual pages in a blog may be simple HTML, …
An article in today’s Washington Post, The Internet Gets Its Pro, says a new domain extension, “dot-pro”, just for lawyers, docs, and accountants (and other professionals?) will go live in July. Those pros who work to maintain an online persona …
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Question… Will repeated users clicking along the same chain of hyperlinks, beat down a path in the network? In other words, can users literally/metaphorically beat a path to your web site’s door? Does a well-beaten path transfer information quicker than …
I wrote a short introductory piece on blogs as a new tool for legal marketing for Strategies, The Legal Marketing Journal, a publication of the Legal Marketing Association. While the piece is not comprehensive in scope, it does provide a …
Hi bloggers… Here’s an interesting item regarding social software arguing that search engine standout Google is tops in class (see Google Best Example of Social Software). It provides links to some interesting points such as this one: “Social software is …
While I’m still deciding how to use this blog, I’m posting this Word Cam as I think it nicely sets the mood. A Word Cam is a concept I created that I define as: “1. A device for capturing a …
Thanks to my harvard email address, I am allowed to be part of the great blog experiment. Now to find a niche…