Sole practitioners are well placed to take advantage of the benefits of the internet – this article (first published in the Internet Newsletter) explains how
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Social Media – Whats the point? (Part 3)
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…
Social media buttons
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…
The Lodger Landlord – testing the theories
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…
Learning from the Masters
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…
Linkedin for lawyers
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…
A change of direction
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…
Blogging – What is it?
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….
Social Media – Whats the point? (Part 2)
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…
Social Media – Whats the point? (Part 1)
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…
