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Friday, February 27, 2015

Is it a surprise 40% of small law firms don’t have a website?

By Kevin O'Keefe on February 27, 2015

Rocket Matter’s Lisa Pansini shared a nice infographic with 10 surprising stats on law firm websites. The first being that nearly 40% of all small law firms don’t have websites. More consumers of legal services start their search for attorneys using online resources. But, many law firms still don’t have a website… On the face of … Continue Reading

Top 10 in Law Blogs: Target Breach, Net Neutrality, Bob Marley

By Colin O'Keefe on February 27, 2015

In the big rule of the day, the FCC officially voted to regulate the Internet like a utility. Travis Crabtree has a quick (and good) reaction to that in today’s roundup. Total posts on the LexBlog Network today: 176. Bob Marley’s Heirs Jammin’ With a Win at the Ninth Circuit – Alexandria, VA lawyer Brewster … Continue Reading

Friday, May 16, 2014

Are law blogs content marketing?

This morning I read about a Cuban blogger, Yoani Sánchez, who is going tolaunch a digital newspaper. The paper will be the first independent media on the island in half a century.

Sanchez has become one of the most recognized critical voices because of her blog, which has won many international journalism awards

Yesterday I read about a St. Cloud, Minnesota blogger, who through her own research, aided the police investigation of assaults on teenage boys in the area. Twin Cities television stations have run stories this week about the bloggers work and whether a solo perpetrator was involved all of the attacks.

http://goo.gl/CGQb27

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Monday, April 21, 2014

How many law blogs are there and where are we headed?

My friend and fellow entrepreneur, Deborah McMurray (@contentpilot), asked me last week for my estimate on the number of attorney blogs today and my prediction for the coming years. McMurray was speaking to the Dallas Legal Marketing Association regarding top trends in marketing and wanted to include an update on blogs.

I thought you’d be interested in the information I shared with her.

There are a approximately 3,500 law blogs. These numbers are based upon figures from LexBlog’s LXBN Network and the ABA Journal Blog Directory.

This number is markedly below the numbers from an ABA Tech Surveywhich estimated that 10% of attorneys and 27% of law firms have law blogs. I have no idea how the survey arrived at those numbers, I found them incredible.

Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Paralegal Blogging: Benefiting Readers and Writers

A recent survey found that:
in-house attorneys exhibit widespread trust (84%) in blogs.
they read blogs authored by legal professionals or branded by other firms more often than they read blogs written by actual journalists or regular bloggers.
more than half of respondents said they think that a prominent blog or blog post will influence clients to hire one firm over another.

While daily blog readership dropped 10% compared to 2010, weekly and monthly readership more than made up for it, shedding new light on the quality versus quantity debate regarding blogs.

http://www.legaco.org/article/paralegal-blogging-benefiting-readers-and-writers

Monday, January 20, 2014

Bloggers have First Amendment protections, federal court rules

GRANTS PASS, ORE. – A federal appeals court ruled Friday that bloggers and the public have the same First Amendment protections as journalists when sued for defamation: If the issue is of public concern, plaintiffs have to prove negligence to win damages.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new trial in a defamation lawsuit brought by an Oregon bankruptcy trustee against a Montana blogger who wrote online that the court-appointed trustee criminally mishandled a bankruptcy case.

The appeals court ruled that the trustee was not a public figure, which could have invoked an even higher standard of showing the writer acted with malice, but the issue was of public concern, so the negligence standard applied.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/01/18/bloggers-have-first-amendment-protections-federal-court-rules/?intcmp=obnetwork

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Top 10 Social Media Blog Finalists 2014: This Week in Social Media

By Cindy King
Published January 18, 2014

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news.

Finalists: Top 10 Social Media Blogs 2014

We received over 600 nominations for our fifth-annual Top 10 Social Media Blogs contest (the blogosphere’s biggest contest for social media blogs).

The list of 22 finalists is pretty impressive! See for yourself below.

The judges: Our judges include Lee Odden (author of Optimize: How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media and Content Marketingand CEO of TopRank Online Marketing), Denise Wakeman (founder of the Blog Squad™) and Neal Schaffer (author of three books, including Maximizing LinkedIn for Sales and Social Media Marketing). They are currently finishing up their reviews of these sites.

Here are the finalists (in alphabetical order):

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/top-10-social-media-blog-finalists-2014/

REAL ISLAM !!!

And slay them wherever you come upon them, and expel them from where they expelled you; persecution is more grievous than slaying. But fight them not by the Holy Mosque until they should fight you there; then, if they fight you, slay them — such is the recompense of unbelievers, but if they give over, surely Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate. Fight them, till there is no persecution and the religion is Allah’s; then if they give over, there shall be no enmity save for evildoers. (Quran 2:191-193)

Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that Allah has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for Allah’s guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them. (Quran 4:34)

They wish that you should disbelieve as they disbelieve, and then you would be equal; therefore take not to yourselves friends of them, until they emigrate in the way of Allah; then, if they turn their backs, take them, and slay them wherever you find them; take not to yourselves any one of them as friend or helper. (Quran 4:89)

This is the recompense of those who fight against Allah and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth, to do corruption there: they shall be slaughtered, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall alternately be struck off; or they shall be banished from the land. That is a degradation for them in this world; and in the world to come awaits them a mighty chastisement. (Quran 5:33)

When thy Lord was revealing to the angels, ˜I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast into the unbelievers’ hearts terror; so smite above the necks, and smite every finger of them! (Quran 8:12)

Make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others besides them that you know not; Allah knows them. And whatsoever you expend in the way of Allah shall be repaid you in full; you will not be wronged. (Quran 8:60)

Then, when the sacred months are drawn away, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate. (Quran 9:5)

Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden — such men as practise not the religion of truth, being of those who have been given the Book — until they pay the tribute out of hand and have been humbled. (Quran 9:29)

Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their possessions against the gift of Paradise; they fight in the way of Allah; they kill, and are killed; that is a promise binding upon Allah in the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Koran; and who fulfils his covenant truer than Allah? So rejoice in the bargain you have made with Him; that is the mighty triumph. (Quran 9:111)

O believers, fight the unbelievers who are near to you; and let them find in you a harshness; and know that Allah is with the godfearing. (Quran 9:123)

When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks, then, when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds; then set them free, either by grace or ransom, till the war lays down its loads. So it shall be; and if Allah had willed, He would have avenged Himself upon them; but that He may try some of you by means of others. And those who are slain in the way of Allah, He will not send their works astray. (Quran 47:4)

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