Small Firm Success blog discussed the new Black’s Law Dictionary (8th Edition) that Thomson/West is selling for $49.99. At first, I thought this was a really great idea, and even though most iPhone apps are in the 99¢ to $1.99 price range, the $49.99 price didn’t phase me.
“Most
I spent the weekend presenting at Lexis’ Advance Management in Private Law Libraries (AMPLL 2009). Even though the weekend started out by my missing the flight to Dallas, and then having to scramble to make the 5 hour drive (I did it in a little over 4) to make it to the conference
I have a real-life success story with Twitter: I actually called a lawyer that I met on Twitter to discuss a legal issue. Really.
The back story: @kentnewsome and I go back a ways. He, along with another partner, were the final word on all web decisions. After a few years, he decided to leave
Seems there are a lot of “First To Market” believers running news aggregators. That became apparent when not one, not two, but three different news aggregators launched “beta” versions of their products to the public this week. I’ve been playing with two of the aggregators – Google News Timeline and NewsSift. The third product,
Most presidents of this country have tons of media exposure, of course, around election time, at the inauguration and State of the Union Address. Usually it trails off afterwards except for sporadic events in history, exciting legislation or regularly scheduled press conferences. Not with Obama—he seems to be on television many times a day along
While monitoring Canada’s LegalIT 3.0 conference, I noticed something — I’ve seen all of this before.
Online marketing for professional services, and in particular law firms, is a difficult proposition. Not only do legal online marketers have the challenge of overcoming lawyers’ sensibilities about legal advertising, we have to contend with 50 states bar’s advertising rules.
Then after dodging these two bullets, we are called to measure what may, at first
I am in awe of Ashton Kutcher.
Ok, yeah, he’s cute. I admit it; I was charmed by his dopey good looks in That ’70s Show.
But after watching the 31-year old Ashton Kutcher on Twitter and the sway he has, I now believe that man is a marketing genius.
Yet another very
Last night, at 10:17 PM EDT, the AP made formal its previously stated public announcement: they are going to start monetizing content by into a subscription package. New Venture Aims to Introduce Fees for Online News, AP press release.
This morning, at 12:07 AM, News Corp announced that they are building a global content