Kevin O’Keefe of Real Lawyers Have Blogs put together some key elements to have on your blog: Essential law blog pages needed to promote yourself. I have read too many blogs, for lawyers and others, that do not tell you what the blog is about or who is writing it. Evey blog (including my blogs) [...]
I would appreciate your thoughts on this policy focused. It is written from an agnostic policy perspective, neither prohibiting nor promoting blogs or social media. I plan to use this as a starting point at the New Company. When employees create their own blogs, comment on a blog, create a LinkedIn profile, use Facebook and/or [...]
I had the pleasure of hosting a lunch meeting for the International Legal Technology Association to talk about Social Networking for Lawyers and Legal IT. I was joined by Jenn Steele and Bob Ambrogi in talking about Facebook, LinkedIn, blogging, Twitter, Legal OnRamp and Martindale Connected. We looked at the ways we each use these [...]
For those of you wondering if blogging is a real activity or whether blogging is worthwhile, you should checkout Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere. They are tracking over 133 million blogs and almost one million blog posts every 24 hours.
Being the first or one of just a few bloggers inside your organization can put you in an influential position. Scott Gavin put together five reasons why in his First Mover Advantage article: Senior management will want to know who you are and what you are saying. Are you a threat or an innovative individual [...]
Wilmer Hale has launched four associate blogs as part of the firm’s Wilmer Hale Careers website. Julie Smolinski from the Palo Alto office and is a member of the Transactional Department, Corporate Practice Group Ross Firsenbaum from the New York office and is a member of the Litigation/Controversy Department. Anne McLaughlin from the Boston office [...]
We had a great crowd at my presentation on Establishing the Digital Relationship, along with Tim Parker and Yuval Zukerman. It looks like some of the audience really understood the message. Bob Buday of The Bloom Group, who set up the presentation, ran off and set up his own blog the next day: Thought Leadership [...]
Mary Abraham of Above and Beyond KM has been thinking about the concept of mandatory blogging for a while: What Have You Learned? Unsociable Uses of Social Media Knowledge Management Made Mandatory? Knowledge Management Made Easier Mary seems to have moved beyond the concept of mandatory blogging to encouraged blogging. Now that is a concept [...]
After my post Make Blogging Mandatory for Knowledge Management, there has been a continuing flurry of thoughts about mandatory blogging floating around: Knowledge Management Made Mandatory? from Mary Abraham Going with the flow from Mark Gould Blogging Mandatory Or Voluntary? from Mike Gotta Unsocialable Uses of Social Media from Mary Abraham When Jack Vinson made [...]
At my panel on What Blogging Brings To Business at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, there was some discussion about whether a company should make blogging mandatory. I sense the audience and the panel thought it was a bad idea. Mary Abraham of Above and Beyond KM calls it Knowledge Management Made Easier and points to [...]