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Social Media – Whats the point? (Part 3)

Social Media buttons

A very useful function of social media is to allow you to keep up to date easily.  How?  Well:
You can follow blogs via RSS
If you use the Google homepage method, then on your Google homepage will be blocks for each of the blogs you follow with a list of the most recent three blog posts.  [...]

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Social media buttons

The social media buttons in the Site Sketch wordpress plugin

To get exposure for your blog, it is really important nowadays to promote it via social media.  One of the best ways of doing this is to get other people to promote it for you!  You do this by giving them handy little buttons and links.  My theme, the Headway theme provides social media buttons [...]

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The Lodger Landlord – testing the theories

Tessa

I spent much of last year studying and reading about social media and how it works. This year it is time to put some of this into practice.
I have therefore started an experimental new service for lodger landlords. My existing service, Landlord Law,  does cater for people renting a room to a lodger, but lodger [...]

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Learning from the Masters

Problogger

When I wrote my earlier post here, I said I had been doing a lot of research.  In this post I set out some of the sites that I have been using.
Probably the best blogging site is Problogger which is  written by Australian blogger Darren Rowse.  He is a full time professional blogger who apparently [...]

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Linkedin for lawyers

My profile on Linkedin

Linked in is the big social media service for business.  I joined it quite a while ago now, and although not essential, I think it is a useful service for lawyers.  Certainly it is not as useless as some solicitors I have spoken to seem to think (mostly these are solicitors who have little experience [...]

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A change of direction

© Copyright Kenneth Allen and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence

It will not have escaped the more perspicacious among you that (a) I have not blogged much for a while here and (b) this blog has changed its appearance a bit.
The two are not entirely unconnected.  I started this blog thinking that I might perhaps use it to support a consultancy service (should there be [...]

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Blogging – What is it?

belle de jour

As most people will know, a blog is a sort of online diary – the name is a shorted form of weblog. The blog owner will blog ‘posts’ which will appear in a list with the most recent at the top.
Blogs have been around for some time, and most people are familiar with them. There [...]

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Social Media – Whats the point? (Part 2)

Social Media buttons

Contacts. Social media is an excellent way of keeping in touch with your contacts. “But” I hear you say, “I can do that via my address book. Why do I need to do this on the internet?”. Well you can of course, just rely on traditional methods. But social media goes a step further and [...]

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Social Media – Whats the point? (Part 1)

Social Media buttons

Lawyers are often disdainful about social media, and don’t want to bother with it. “Whats the point” they say, “I’m not interested in knowing what people had for breakfast (twitter) or having connections with people or ‘friends’ I have never met (facebook, Linkedin, Ecademy etc).
Well if you have a web-site there is a very good [...]

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