Oct

31

50 plus?

Filed Under Social networking

As we approach the closing hours of the month, I feel I should post something that is worthy of heading my October 2007 archive. It is this:
There are only 227,220 men and women between 35 and 60 on Facebook in the UK.
SagaZone to the rescue!

By Nick Holmes, 31 October 2007

Oct

30

Blogs v websites (with RSS)

Filed Under Feeds, Blogging

Banging on about the benefits of blogs is not the sole preserve of Binary Law. Kevin O’Keefe, leading US champion of blogs for lawyers, does it constantly and persuasively. Today he succinctly summarises why large law firm blogs beat law firm websites with RSS feeds.

By Nick Holmes, 30 October 2007

Oct

30

Campaign for law publishers’ RSS feeds

Filed Under Feeds

Steve Matthews of Stem shows “how useful RSS can be outside the personal reader” with LegalPubs.ca, “a one stop showcase of the products offered by Canadian legal publishers”.
Using RSS technology, I have mixed the 10 latest items for each of the publishers … Each entry is passed along unmodified from the publisher’s original feed, and […]

By Nick Holmes, 30 October 2007

Oct

29

Susskind 2.0 - the digested read

Filed Under Future of law

In the second extract from his forthcoming book, The End of Lawyers?, published in Times Online, Richard Susskind revisits his predictions in 1996’s The Future of Law:
I argued that … many of our fundamental assumptions about the nature of legal service and the nature of legal process would be challenged by the coming of information […]

By Nick Holmes, 29 October 2007

Oct

24

Feeding the five thousand (2)

Filed Under Feeds

Lo-fi librarian bemoans the lack of RSS feeds for new title information from the law publishers.
Feeds for new titles and editions is such a no brainer, in my view everyone would benefit, there is less chance of a new text being overlooked and ordered late so the user is happy, the librarian saves time and […]

By Nick Holmes, 24 October 2007

Oct

23

Lawyers not necessary shock

Filed Under Future of law

Times Online publishes the first of several excerpts from Richard Susskind’s forthcoming book, The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the nature of legal services, due next May from OUP, from which:
the law is not there to provide a livelihood for lawyers any more than ill-health exists to offer a living for doctors. Successful legal business may […]

By Nick Holmes, 23 October 2007

Oct

19

Navigational search

Filed Under Browsers, Search

Navigational search - gaining access to a specific site or page by searching for the actual web address or a portion of it - is common, not just amongst the uninitiated (who you might say do it out of ignorance), but amongst the web savvy.
Jeremy Crane at Compete:
It’s actually astonishing how often people search for […]

By Nick Holmes, 19 October 2007

Oct

17

CaseCheck

Filed Under Law 2.0, Cases

Here’s a great new Law 2.0 initiative.
CaseCheck, headed by Stephen Moore, offers case summaries from the Scottish Courts and EAT, delivered latest-first and also categorised, with RSS feeds. Selected committed users author the summaries; all users can add comments.
Does that sound like a familiar formula? Yes, it’s built with an open source blog platform. And […]

By Nick Holmes, 17 October 2007

Oct

17

Thought leadership through blogging

Filed Under Blogging

Steve Matthews posts a considered article on Slaw on Thought Leadership - the selling of ‘expertise’ that has always been a crucial element to legal marketing - through blogging:
The results that can be achieved … have been repeatedly demonstrated with current blogging leaders, and are difficult to refute:

Increased media exposure;
A devoted referral network;
Increased offers to […]

By Nick Holmes, 17 October 2007

Oct

16

Google - the only law firm directory to bother with?

Filed Under Search

Larry Bodine thinks so:
Clients use Google to look up phone numbers and addresses, so law firms can cancel their yellow pages ads. When clients want to check out your firm, they are not going to call up to get your printed brochure, they will look you up online.
Kevin O’Keefe agrees but sees the directories playing […]

By Nick Holmes, 16 October 2007

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