Recent blog posts about blogging:
As Posted by Nancy Stinson on the Stark County Law Library Blawg
1. Blogging Policies: A Good Place to Start - "From the blog: For those firms which choose to take the blogging road and encourage their employees to blog, thought will most probably need to be given to the drafting of blogging policies. For a useful starting point, with links to various corporate blogging policies, see Charlene Li's useful post Blogging Policy Examples. Additional thought would need to be given to issues distinct to the practice of law, such as compliance with professional/ethical obligations, but Charlene's post is a good place to start. Source: FeedMeLegal, 9 November 2004."
2. Courts Look to Blogs to Improve Accessibility - "Sabrina posts: "From the National Center for State Courts' 2004 Report on Trends in the State Courts, see Web Logs: Increasing Courts' Ability to Quickly Communicate with Constituents (3 pages, PDF): · "The courts' traditional means of communicating with court users are the postal service, the organized media, fax machines, and telephones. In the past decade courts have increasingly used e-mail and Web sites to communicate internally and externally. Web logs, or "blogs," can be useful communication tools for courts because they are easy to use and accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. Source: beSpacific - Accurate, focused law and technology news by Sabrina I. Pacifici 2 December 2004."
As Posted by Joy London on Excited Utterances
1. Corporate Blogging - "In the November 28th issue of llrx.com, Sabrina Pacifici, in a fantastic PowerPoint presentation, documents and illustrates how the development and implementation of blogs within an organization can serve as a key application to facilitate research services, knowledge management, marketing, training, and communications within groups, departments, and enterprise wide".
As Posted by Dennis Kennedy on DennisKennedy.blog
1. Marketing Blogs - "As you know, I'm a little biased because I am an editor of the ABA's Law Practice Today Webzine, but the new November issue, which focuses on legal marketing, is chock full of great articles. I highly recommend that you check it out.
"The four feature articles on legal marketing from four stellar authors will definitely expand your thinking about both the theory and practice of legal marketing - just in time for gearing up end of the year / beginning of the year marketing efforts.
"Blawg Channeler Tom Mighell has a column covering blogs on legal (and non-legal) marketing. My contribution to this issue is called Revolutionizing Case Preparation and Client Relations with CaseMap 5 – Making It Easier to Win Cases and Clients, in which I suggest an innovative way litigators can use one of the best litigation software programs to market legal services to both existing and new clients simply by giving clients the kind of information they wish you were giving them now.
"And there are even more good articles in this issue."
As Posted by Bruce MacEwen on Adam Smith, Esq.
1. Joy London on Blogging 101 - "The always-inspiring Joy London of "excited utterances" has penned a Blogging 101 article for Legal IT. Although much of what Joy has to say is targeted at what might charitably be described as the extreme novitiates in the audience (what a blog is, for starters), she has some insightful observations on why the blog medium and legal practice are a match made in heaven:
- people are a firm's true intellectual capital, just as the individuals constituting the legal blogosphere are the source of its true power;
- the mindset behind successful and effective blogs—an impulse to share reliable analysis and observation—is precisely the instinct that animates successful knowledge management in a firm; and
- at least in the legal blogging community, bloggers "exuberantly share links and observations."
"Joy kindly concludes with a list of about a dozen of her favorite US- and UK-based blawgs, and—the envelope, please—"Adam Smith, Esq." is right there. Yo, Joy: Would you prefer a bottle of champagne, or Scotch?"
2. Announcing the Launch of the Savvy Blawgers Panel - "Announcing the launch of the "Adam Smith, Esq." official "Savvy Blawgers Panel," a brain trust I will rely upon to sound off and chime in on (hopefully) interesting ideas I will query them about every so often—not so often as to wear out Adam Smith's welcome, but often enough to keep the Panel, and you, dear reader, engaged. The notion is to pose a question, collect answers, and publish them here on "Adam Smith, Esq." for the edification of all.
"What will these topics be, and who are these people?
"The topics will range from the high-end and deeply strategic ("The future of '[.....]'") to the practical and down-to-earth ("The gadget I could not live without is ..."). Readers are also invited to submit mind-bending or just plain irritating questions of their own, understanding that the editor (Bruce) reserves the right to accept, reject, edit for clarity or brevity or good taste, and so forth--and know that all decisions of the judges are final.
"The panelists are a highly selective group of outstanding members of the legal blogosphere: Once all have confirmed their acceptance to this august panel, I will post a list identifying them and their blawgs. For the moment, I hope to be able to promise a treat in the quality, acuity, variety, and overall sassiness of the group. We don't need no shrinkin' violets!
"Stay tuned; the first Savvy Blawger Query will be posted shortly."
As Posted by Evan Schaeffer on Notes from the (Legal) Underground
1. A Fine Introduction to Law-Related Weblogging - "Congratulations to Todd Chatman a/k/a Ambivalent Imbroglio for his great article "Join the Blawg Bandwagon," which appears in this month's Student Lawyer.
"Todd's article explains how law students can benefit from weblogs, contains a sidebar about how to start a weblog, and includes a great list of law-related weblogs with descriptions and links.
"Student Lawyer, of course, is published by the American Bar Association. Here's one former ABA member who's hoping Todd was well-compensated for lending his talent to such a nice-looking, glossy magazine".
As Posted by Paul Caron on TaxProf Blog
1. Foundation Press, Lexis, and West Sponsor TaxProf Blog - "We are thrilled to announce that LexisNexis has joined Foundation Press and West Publishing Company as sponsors of Tax Prof Blog and the Law Professor Blogs Network. We hope this is the beginning of a long-term relationship that will provide both financial support for our blogs and useful information about new books of interest for our readers."
As Posted by Lilia Efimova on Mathemagenic
1. Blogging as breathing or how to find time for blogging? - "The most asked question when I speak to people who don't blog, is where I get the time to do it.
"In Umea we discussed time consumption and listed a number of time-consuming factors. Time is needed:
- To get used to the tools
- To grow a network
- To get into action with others
- To grow trust
- For getting to know and find useful (re)sources
- To find your voice (for yourself, for others)
"This seems like a list of things that apply to a lot more situations than just blogging. For instance we compared it to Stephanie's experiences when she first moved from the US to Sweden, and had to find her rhythm in a new country. It also resonates with my own perception that the time I spend blogging is either not very large, or all of the time. Reading blogs, writing to reflect and digest, writing to collect and gather, and sharing along different channels (blog, wiki, company portal, e-mails, etc.) is just the way how I collect and process my personal information flow. Asking me how much time I spend blogging, is treating blogging as an additional activity in my life (which it was at first), and feels to me like asking how much of my time I spend breathing.
"My answers to this question are pretty similar: I can afford spending quite a lot of time blogging only because it's so integrated with my regular activities that it's not an add-on anymore.
"A brief brainstorm of the role blogging plays in my own work:
- professional awareness
- I read weblogs instead of reading mailing lists and searching professional web-sites to stay updated with news and trends
- work-related search
- saving time for searching as in many cases I come across papers/information I need for my work via weblogs and blog/bookmark it
- social search - very often I know whom to ask for a specific information/advice
- networking
- reading weblogs is a low-cost way to stay in touch with others (if they have weblogs :)
- writing my own weblog exposes my own work and expertise, so it's easier to establish contacts
- better use of f2f time as with bloggers there is no need for updates on each other news
- conversations
- getting help or answers fast without being too intrusive
- feedback on ideas and early drafts
- development of ideas in a community (actually: in different communities :)
- research
- data collection, interpretation and presentation (e.g. as everyday grounded theory)
- reading other weblogs and being a blogger are part of my data collection instruments
- I use my weblog to test my interpretations and to get a feedback on ways of presenting some pieces of research
- weblog as a research notebook
- keeping notes on reading, research progress, ideas, publications
- organising notes into themes to support thinking and future retrieval
- writing
- low-threshold space to start writing that helps to start small when working on large pieces (like papers or PhD as a whole)
- space to get an early (or urgent :) feedback on writing
- getting emotional support
"I guess there is more... Anyway I'll be back on it because I'm thinking about writing a paper on blogging as a research method :)"
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