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20 New Blogs at LawBlogs.ca

Posted by Emma Durand-Wood on January 23rd, 2012

One of the best parts of being involved with the Clawbies is learning about new blogs, and seeing just how many different legal topics are being blogged about in Canada. Since our last update in November, we’ve added 20 new blogs to LawBlogs.ca  – and there are even a couple of Clawbies winners and runners-up among them!… more »

It’s Clawbies Season!

Posted by Steve Matthews on December 1st, 2011

The 2011 Clawbies open for nominations today, and we’re looking for a few good (okay, outstanding) Canadian law blogs to recognize in this year’s Canadian Law Blog Awards! You can head on over to Clawbies.ca for all the details, but here’s the short and sweet version of how the awards work: Nominate your favourite Canadian law blogs (or US/European… more »

A Dozen New Blogs at Lawblogs.ca

Posted by Emma Durand-Wood on November 22nd, 2011

We’ve added a dozen new Canadian law blogs to lawblogs.ca since our last update.  Blogs in this latest round of additions cover M&A, tax disputes, personal injury, and lots in between (including a new French-language blog). law.arts.culture (Osgoode Hall) Canadian Tax Dispute Blog (Pushor Mitchell LLP) Simpson Thomas Blog Litigation Brief (Hakemi & Company Law Corporation)more »

23 New Blogs at LawBlogs.ca

Posted by Emma Durand-Wood on September 26th, 2011

The submissions just keep coming in! We’ve added 23 new blogs to the Canadian Law Blogs List since our last update, and here they are: OnCorp Direct Blog Bowman Law Office Blog (Laura Bowman) Blogue juridique Edilex CCLA Library Blog (County of Carleton Law Association) Bridge Real Estate Investment Advisory Group (Robinsmore »

A timely social media reminder, brought to you by Facebook

Posted by Jordan Furlong on September 22nd, 2011

So if you’re a Facebook user — and 750 million of you are — you’re probably aware of (if not part of) the firestorm the company created yesterday by rolling out yet another change to its service. Facebook has incurred the wrath of its users before, not just with other design tweaks but with constant adjustments to its privacymore »

Canadian Law Blogs List Breaks 300!

Posted by Emma Durand-Wood on July 5th, 2011

It’s been a while – okay, a year! – since we shared the latest additions to LawBlogs.ca, but the lag is more due to our busyness than a lack of updates.  There are now 300+ blogs listed in the directory, which got a big makeover in December 2010. By comparison, in March 2010, we were at about more »

Explaining content and why lawyers struggle with it

Posted by Jordan Furlong on May 25th, 2011

In my previous post, I explained how social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and blogs are simply vehicles for the distribution of content, and I showed how these vehicles can be an unusually good fit for lawyers. The problem with vehicles, of course, is that whether you’re driving a beat-up old Civic or a sleek new Lexus is less… more »

Using new media to access old media

Posted by Jordan Furlong on March 8th, 2011

I’ve written a new feature article for CBA PracticeLink, the Canadian Bar Association’s online practice magazine: “How to use old media to access new media.” The article, as you might infer from the title, suggests that the old world of newspapers and radio and the new world of social media and online content are not two solitudes. They… more »

Reluctant publishers: helping lawyers generate content

Posted by Jordan Furlong on February 15th, 2011

There’s the principle, there’s the theory, and then there’s the reality. The principle is that the only reliable way for a law firm to build a lasting positive presence on the web is through the steady and timely production of relevant content: no amount of SEO gamesmanship will outperform good content that builds links with other websites. The theory is… more »

All together now: the value of practice group blogs

Posted by Jordan Furlong on December 15th, 2010

The dynamic relaunch of LawBlogs.ca, designed and administered by Stem’s founder Steve Matthews, provides a snapshot of just how far the Canadian blawgosphere has come in the past few years (more than 200 Canadian law blogs, 20 new entries in the last 11 days alone). Add that to the more than 3,000 blogs now tracked by… more »

Attorney At Work: an innovative new lawyer resource

Posted by Jordan Furlong on December 9th, 2010

Steve and I are both honoured to be part of the advisory board of an innovative and timely new resource for the legal community. Attorney At Work is the brainchild of Merrilyn Astin Tarlton, Joan Feldman and Mark Feldman, familiar to many from the ABA’s Law Practice Management Section (and its Law Practice magazine),… more »

Clawbies, Lawblogs and Wee Little Links!

Posted by Steve Matthews on December 3rd, 2010

We have three very cool announcements here at Stem this morning! A trifecta of announcements, if you will. First, the final touches have been applied and we’re opening up the new Lawblogs.ca.  We’re calling the next two months our beta period, and it comes with a requisite survey for feedback.  We’ve also added a custom submission form,… more »

Ontario & BC Leading Law Blog Provinces

Posted by Steve Matthews on November 24th, 2010

In preparation for its forthcoming relaunch, we’ve been adding some classifications to the blogs listed on Lawblogs.ca.  Part of the divisions we’re putting into place will be to show the breakdown by Canadian Province; and I thought it might be interesting to share an early look at the numbers: Ontario (100) British Columbia (53) National (22) Quebec (18) Alberta… more »

Law Firm Blog Location and SEO

Posted by Steve Matthews on November 17th, 2010

My friend Kevin O’Keefe is debating the effectiveness of placing law firm blogs within the law firm website, as opposed to setting up each blog with its own domain name. Kevin clearly supports the idea of giving  each firm blog its own domain, and wrote on this same topic last year. An important piece of context… more »

SEO Without the Spam

Posted by Steve Matthews on July 2nd, 2010

My newest column was published at Slaw.ca today, titled: Injection Marketing Undermines Credibility.  Within this piece, I’m trying to deliver two central messages.  The first is pretty straight forward: that embedding  links or messages about your services within web conversations is not only ‘tacky’, but it reflects terribly on you and your… more »