http://lawfirmblogger.com Helping Busy Lawyers Write Better Blogs Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:17:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Should You Open Your Blog Doors to Guests? Today Bill Marler put out a Call for Guest Bloggers on Food Safety and Food Law, which I thought was pretty cool. Even cooler? He's opening his blog's doors to the industry and the defense. What's so cool about Bill Marler? Well, many things. (After ... http://lawfirmblogger.com/law-blog-community/ How Howard Rice Uses Social Media I'm always interested to learn about the different ways lawyers and law firms use social media, so I was excited to find this video about how Howard Rice uses social media to recruit law students. How is Your Law Firm Using Social Media? Every day on Twitter ... http://lawfirmblogger.com/social-meida-law-firm/ Can Social Media Help a Law Student Get a Job? That's one of the questions law student Rex Gradeless is asking on his new blog Social Media Law Student.  Rex Gradeless is a third-year law student at Saint Louis University School of Law, specializing in Civil Litigation. He's been actively networking ... http://lawfirmblogger.com/social-media-law-student/ TweetDeck for Easy Organization of Twitter Checking your messages from twitter.com’s web interface isn’t the most efficient way to do things. It also only catches any @replies that begin with your username. So if, for example, I send a message that says “Hey @you, do you do Chapter 7 bankruptcies or ... http://lawfirmblogger.com/twitter-lawyers-tweetdeck/ Are You Talking To Me or With Me? My ironic moment of the day: I found the ABA Journal's article Web 2.0 Still a No-go via Twitter, tweeted by Michael Lubofsky (aka @lawmarketing). I was fascinated by the article and had something to say. And hey, abajournal.com is in blog format, ... http://lawfirmblogger.com/lawyer-blog-comments/ Which Kind of SEO Do You Want on Your Lawyer Blog? My last post (Is SEO Killing Your Law Firm Blog?) has gotten me a few emails from folks asking where I draw the line between good SEO and bad. It's a fine line, but my boilerplate answer is that good ... http://lawfirmblogger.com/law-blog-seo/ Remember Humans? They Use Search Engines, You Know... SEO (search engine optimization) is important to any website or blog, of course. But more important is not losing sight of the people using those search engines. Example: I'm currently in the top spot for "law firm blogger" in google, but if you clicked ... http://lawfirmblogger.com/lawyer-blog-seo/ Make Your First Impression a Good One! If anything, your appearance matters more online than off, because folks will judge you faster. The average web browser spends 4 seconds taking you in before deciding whether you're worth getting to know. You wouldn't show up to court in cut-offs and sandals; why show ... http://lawfirmblogger.com/launching-a-lawyer-blog/ Time Suck or Valuable Networking Tool? You Be The Judge! In case you haven't heard of Twitter yet, it's a free online networking tool based on the question "What are you doing?" Those random thoughts not interesting enough to make it to your blog have at last found a home! Finally, folks ... http://lawfirmblogger.com/twitter-for-lawyers/ #1 Mistake of Law Firm Blogs: Reporting Just the Facts Folks can find the facts anyplace on the web. Chances are, if they've landed on a law firm blog, they're looking for more than what has already been reported by the Associated Press. As is true anyplace in the blogosphere, people ... http://lawfirmblogger.com/successful-law-firm-blogs/