Leading Internet lawyer > blogs over Web sites
Dennis Kennedy, a great person and well respected Internet lawyer, is joining a number of leading lawyers in saying he would tell lawyers to start a blog before a Web site. Dennis recently posted on his blog his answer to the increasingly-common question of whether to start with a blog or a website: "[M]y current response is definitely a blog and, in most cases, hosted on TypePad. For the reasons Jeff (Jeff Beard of LawTechGuru fame- an excellent blogger himself) mentions and others, starting with a blog and gradually building out standard "website" features makes the most sense if you are in the position where you are asking that question."
Perhaps the best statement by Dennis is: "I'm still surprised when someone with a law practice tells me that they have neither a website nor a blog."
April 13, 2004 in Blogs preferred to Web site | Permalink | Comments (0)
Blogs prevail over lawyer Web sites says leading author
For marketing it's a lawyer blog over a lawyer Web site. So says Jerry Lawson, the guy who literally wrote the book on lawyers and the Internet. Take a look at Jerry's post at his eLawyer Blog where Jerry concludes blogs have major advantages over conventional web sites, making them a promising tool for law firm marketing. Read on to see the basis of conclusions.
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March 19, 2004 in Blogs preferred to Web site | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
LawTechGuru opted for blog over Web site
Jerry Lawson, leading authority on the legal industry's use of technology, reported on his eLawyer Blog that LawTechGuru (Jeff Beard) understands the power of a lawyer blog.
Writing on the ABA Lawtech listserv, Jeff says:
Here's to working smarter in an *appropriate* way. It's one of the reasons I opted for creating a blog instead of a web site. The RSS feeds coupled with the inbound links from other bloggers makes for a lot of extra site traffic and higher search result rankings with virtually no additional effort beyond the normal content generation. Thus blogging is succeeding due to both its technological innovation as well as its social leveraging (I like to call it social engineering) -- of which the latter is not nearly understood as well by the masses in this context.
Maybe it's just me but it's starting to feel like it's 'back to the future.' Just 5 or 6 years ago innovative lawyers ran with Web sites as a way to promote their expertise. Now innovative lawyers are running to the blog. Just like with other technological advances time brings greater efficiencies. Blogs have made lawyer promotion on the net more effective and less expensive.
February 5, 2004 in Blogs preferred to Web site | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Ernie the Attorney: Blogs may work better than Web site
Ernest Svenson, a New Orleans lawyer, and publisher of the Ernie the Attorney blog answers the question of what's better for an attorney - a blog or a Web site. He cites leading appellate lawyer Howard Bashman's blog as authority that a blog may just be better.
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February 5, 2004 in Blogs preferred to Web site | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
