{"id":208,"date":"2009-03-23T08:59:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T12:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/amy\/?p=208"},"modified":"2012-05-07T15:19:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:19:02","slug":"martindale-hubbell-blown-to-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/2009\/03\/23\/martindale-hubbell-blown-to-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"Martindale Hubbell Blown to Bits?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t offer my own opinion on Martindale-Hubbell Connected \u2014 the Lexis Nexis venture into bringing its traditional directory product into the world of social networking and Web 2.0 and regain some relevance in the realm of lawyer shopping \u2014 because it is a closed system and I haven’t been able to see how it works. (Isn’t a non-open system breaking rule #1 of Web 2.0?) But Doug Cornelius<\/a> and Kevin O’Keefe<\/a>, two web savvy lawyers, bloggers, Linkedin guys, Tweeters (you get the idea) have a few things to say about their experiences with Martindale’s Connected product over on Kevin’s blog. Read:<\/p>\n

Martindale – Hubbell Connected : Will it go anywhere?<\/a><\/h3>\n

And here’s the direct link to Cornelius’ thoughtful post:<\/p>\n

Martindale-Hubbell Connected – My Thoughts<\/a><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>In fairness to Martindale Hubbell, the system is still in Beta. But it has been making very slow progress. It reminds me of the saga of the Encyclopedia Britannica ($2,200, 20-volume set) and how it was paradigm shafted by Microsoft’s Encarta CD-ROM (ultimately a free bundled product) as told by Philip Evans and Thomas S. Wurster in Blown to Bits: How the New Economy of Information Transforms Strategy<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t offer my own opinion on Martindale-Hubbell Connected \u2014 the Lexis Nexis venture into bringing its traditional directory product into the world of social networking and Web 2.0 and regain some relevance in the realm of lawyer shopping \u2014 …<\/p>\n

Martindale Hubbell Blown to Bits?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,192,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-law-firm-marketing","category-new-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}