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20 New Blogs at LawBlogs.ca
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!
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
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
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 (Robins… more »
A timely social media reminder, brought to you by Facebook
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 privacy… more »
Canadian Law Blogs List Breaks 300!
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
Explaining content and why lawyers struggle with it
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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 »
