Legal Marketing & PR

Weekend Reading in the Law Blog Community

By Amy Derby

Law firm websites : Do all lawyers need them? at Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Kevin O’Keefe suggests that a website alone won’t do the job, but that blogging, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and other social networking sites are much more effective methods of getting the best legal work over time.

Social Media for Attorneys Series (Part 15) at Lawline.com Blog
Zach Heller offers some quick do?s and don?ts for Facebook and Twitter interactions.

Picking low-hanging social media fruit at Don’t Get Caught
Denise Graveline suggests lawyers new to social media consider picking the low-hanging fruit — ripe, ready to pick and relatively easy options that will get you started fast.

Solosez Lawyers on twitter at Blog for Profit
Grant Griffiths and Andrea Cannavina (from Legal Typist) put together a list of Solosez lawyers using twitter, plus other twittering attorneys and legal professionals who requested to be added to the list.

Where Does JD Supra Distribute My Work? at JDScoop
Adrian Lurssen of JDSupra answers the question “How does JD Supra deliver my work to the people I want to reach?”

More Lawyer Comment Spam at Stem Legal Blog
Steve Matthews says lawyers should know better than to drop comment spam, or let their SEO company do so on their behalf. (Amen!)

?Reciprocal Link Cloaking?, SEO ?Experts? and why you need to be very careful at Avvo blog
Conrad Saam, Sr. addresses SEO ?consultants?, ?experts? and self-anointed ?guru?s? peddling SEO rock to the legal industry.

Are Lawyers Using Twitter To Achieve Work-Life Balance? at Practice Makes Perfect
I was honored to be asked to guest post for the Total Attorneys Practice Management blog about lawyers using Twitter for personal connections as well as business purposes.

What have you blogged about recently? Have you read an interesting post you would like to share? Leave your links in the comments for all of us to read!

Full post as published by Law Firm Blogger on March 29, 2009 (boomark / email).