As I was driving home from my morning workout today I heard an NPR news story about conditions in Sochi, Russia. Not this story – http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/proof-that-sochi-is-a-godforsaken-hellscape-right-now Going viral right now are these tweets and images where all the hotel rooms are total rubbish, I’m sure you’ve seen it. The real news story is about dissidents…
There are two sides to every argument, and although for the past few years the prevailing wisdom about blog posts has been “the shorter the better,” new research suggests that longer articles (Over 2,000 words)- rather than blog posts actually rank much higher on Google searches. You can see a full discussion with more details…
This past month I had a chance to spend some time with my good friend Adrian Lursen from JD Supra and he shared with me something that I absolutely loved. At a small comedy club near his offices, Dana Carvey often shows up with a stack of new jokes to share with the audience. Some…
Originally posted in The National Law Journal on January 27, 2014: Five years ago, when Twitter had a mere 10 million users worldwide, I saw the potential for the service to take the world and the legal industry by storm. My prediction was partly correct. Twitter now has more than 500 million accounts and more…
Facebook just gets better and better. I know we read weekly about the looming demise of Facebook, that youngsters are leaving it in droves and that it will never be able to sustain its “coolness,” but Facebook just keeps proving them wrong. It just keeps getting better and better at helping us stay in touch…
Innovation is a powerful thing. But it can also be a distraction. In my experience the only professionals who are successful with social media and technology have sound business fundamentals to begin with. If a lawyer wants to effectively use social media or a blog they need to be able to answer fundamental questions like:…
Kevin O’Keefe shared this image on Twitter that was originally shared by Sam Glover. I retweeted this on Twitter (which means that when I saw it on Twitter, I hit the “retweet” button) and it was passed along to all of my followers. Then over a dozen of my followers retweeted it to their…