September 2008

LinkedIn – The Gateway Drug for Social Networking

A good friend of mine, and a great law practice management blogger, calls LinkedIn the “gateway drug” to social networking. I’m working on an article on the topic for a bar publication at the moment and just came across this video. Commoncraft does a pretty amazing job of explaining things and this LinkedIn video is [...]

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Email Overload?

Last week I met with a lawyer who, like most of us, is on email overload. He asks opposing counsel and clients to email him and to copy his paralegal so that he can be sure that someone responds. Sometimes they both respond, sometimes neither of them respond. The day after our conversation I came [...]

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Recipe for Disaster

I love John Jantsch and you will too. He posted a podcast earlier today. This is an excerpt from the show notes – “If you provide a service, and you charge for your service by the hour, you’re headed for trouble. You are essentially selling a product with a limited supply. The only way to [...]

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What is Twitter?

I am addicted to Twitter. I keep meeting lawyers that don’t know what Twitter is. How can I be addicted to something that you don’t even know exists? Below are two videos explaining Twitter.  JDScoop recently provided a list of lawyers on Twitter. Feel free to follow me on Twitter until you can’t stand it [...]

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Misspellings on Your Website?

Surely you have a website and it is an important piece of your marketing program. But do you have any misspellings on the site? As your site grows it becomes harder and harder to find the errors. A new site will help you find the mistakes so you won’t be embarrassed. Spellr.us requires a simple [...]

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Dropbox – Available Now

Dropbox is out of beta and available to everyone. It’s a pretty cool, free, application that allows you to keep files in sync between multiple computers. You can download the application for PC, Mac and Linux. Drop your files in the dropbox and they immediately sync with your other machines and the web. It’s a [...]

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Don’t Try This at Home

Your browser does not support the video tag. I needed to create something to get this site going so this short video will serve as our inaugural post. It may seem crazy but our cars really do serve as our mobile offices today. I am amazed that I haven’t been killed (or killed someone) give [...]

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Podcasting and the Media

One of the benefits of podcasting, for us anyway, has been the attention it has drawn from the media. We have been featured in a number of stories about lawyers using podcasting to build their practices. More significantly, we have been quoted on issues in the news as a result of comments we have made [...]

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