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Conference Paper on Web Based Referral Marketing
I’m about a week late with this post, but it’s always a good time to plug ABA Techshow! Right? The paper I wrote with Reid Trautz last year, titled Supercharge Your Referrals With Technology, has been released as part the Best of ABA Techshow series. It’s the full version of the paper that was given out… more »
Law Firm Social Media Blocking
My latest Web Law Connected column is up at Slaw. The article is titled Social Media & Business Productivity, and addresses the current trend of law firms using proxy servers to block in-house access to social media websites. Perhaps unexpected, I really sit on the fence on this issue; and didn’t take the anti-blocking stance. There are… more »
PLTC 2009: Web 2.0 Social Networking Slides
I spoke at the Pacific Legal Technology conference this past Friday with Susan Van Dyke. The topic, as perhaps expected, was web 2.0 tools for lawyers, with a slant toward business development. The PPT slides are now available via slideshare, and embedded below. View more presentations from Steve Matthews. more »
CNW Report on Social Media & Canadian Law Firms
Heather Morrison of the CNW Group, formerly Canada News Wire, released a 11-pg report yesterday titled Canadian Law Firms and their Use of Social Media. I am quoted in it, so please excuse the vanity reference. The report itself offers a nice overview of the benefits of social media investment. That’s important, but the part I appreciated… more »
10 People Who Shouldn’t Write About Twitter
About an hour ago, Kelly Phillips Erb, aka TaxGirl, put an entry on Twitter that I think most regular users of the service would agree with: Some people obviously see value to twitter, and some think it’s a waste of time. Everyone has a right to critique, so that’s not (entirely) at issue. But when it comes to writing… more »
What’s Your Tweetable Elevator Pitch?
A fun idea germinating from a discussion with Jordan Furlong… Is it possible to reduce a company’s elevator pitch down to the 140 character limit of a twitter entry? Brevity never being an easy task, it seemed like a challenging & hopefully productive exercise. So, I’m in. I’ll queue the entry below up on my own account in… more »
LinkedIn Lawyers Hit 840K
In an ongoing effort here at Stem, we’ve been tracking the growth of the “Law Practice Industry” category on LinkedIn. For a bit more than a year now, we’ve run periodic searches on Google to see how many profile pages are indexed which include the industry class ‘law practice industry’. Predictably, but still impressively, that number continues to grow.… more »
Email Tip: Filter Social Media Notices
Project work has been plentiful here at Stem recently (which I’m blaming for my lack of blog posts). And like so many of you whose inboxes are constantly running out of control, I found myself needing to take additional action this week. On Wednesday, notifications for twitter follows and friendfeed alone peaked at 45 emails, so I decided… more »
Better Twitter Practices
My latest Web Law Connected column is now posted on Slaw and on JD Supra. The article is titled Lawyer Twitter Practices: 29 Do’s and Don’ts and offers an intemized list of ways lawyers are currently using Twitter. As the title alludes, some of those practices are helping to support the user’s professional reputation, and some are not.… more »
Legal Ranks Swell on LinkedIn
One of the groundwork slides in my referral networking session at ABA Techshow with Reid Trautz was Stem’s ongoing tracking of the “law practice industry” category on LinkedIn. The slide quoted the number of profile pages indexed by Google on four different dates over the course of the last year. Those were: April 2008: 118,000 June 2008:… more »
LegalWeb2.0: Doug Cornelius on Face-Blocking
The second edition of Law Practice Magazine‘s LegalWeb2.0 column is now online. This month, Doug Cornelius has authored a great roundup of the issues faced by law firms who block internal access to social media websites. His article, titled Online Social Networking: Is It a Productivity Bust or Boon for Law Firms? covers a broad range of… more »
Lawyer Web Publishing & Content Routing
This past Sunday I published my latest Web Law Connected column over at Slaw, titled “The Formal-to-Informal Rule of Lawyer Web Publishing“. The title of month’s article is a bit of a misnomer, and my suggestion of a rule is a mental guideline more than anything. The basic premise is to be careful about taking raw unfiltered… more »
The Problem with Twitter
TechCrunch published an important post yesterday about the amount of time we invest in Twitter. Using Robert Scoble as an example, this post demonstrates a valuable lesson for everyone. There’s a risk involved when we disproportionately web-publish to another company’s service. The cost is that we increasingly ignore our personal web-publishing efforts. While this may seem strange coming… more »
New Articles for Stem’s JD Supra Collection
I’ve come to the realization lately that a number of articles I’ve writen for my Web Law Connected column over at Slaw, don’t always get exposed well in the US market. Considering about 70% of Stem clients originate from south of the border, I’m going to call it for what it is – a bit of a blunder… more »
JD Supra Facebook App Launches!
The content distribution channels just keep coming for legal documents sharing service JD Supra! Just announced over on their JD Scoop blog, Stem client JD Supra has launched a new Facebook application to help users stream their content into their facebook profile. There are two potential options during the install process. One is the mini feed, which… more »
