Both new and experienced bloggers need ideas for fresh content. This article lists ideas for generating new posts: comment on recent news, repurposing your content, conferences and meetups, personal and evergreen content, and other prompts.
Respond to current news through your blog. Don’t include a detailed recap of the news. Instead, link to the original
On September 20, 2018, by a 4-3 vote, the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed In re L.G. Slip Opinion No. 2018-Ohio-3750, as improvidently accepted. The issue in the case was whether a minor’s rights against self-incrimination were violated when he was questioned in the presence of police officers by a school resource supervisor, who was
This is the format of an ideal blog post. The most important part of writing an ideal blog post is to, you know, actually write it. Your thoughts are brilliant, I’m sure, but when you keep them within your head you miss out on the discussions that your ideas could generate, that could subsequently help
However long it takes to say what you have to say. No more. No less.
Everywhere I talk these days I am asked what’s the proper length for a law blog post. I give this answer everytime.
I fear the question arises out of a lot misinformation on law blogging flying around.
This afternoon I
Hamza Mikou (@hamzamikou), COO of Boostsquare and veteran blogger, shared yesterday 3 tips for the naming your blog.
With a little commentary from me, here they are:
Create a name that indicates your blog focus. I’ve always told lawyers to think of hornbooks. Trelease on Water Law. Prosser on Torts. There was
It used to be you just added a .com to what you did as a lawyer and you had a domain name for your blog. But with four new law blogs coming online each day, that’s easier said than done these days. Not to worry.
Doug Shuman, Senior Vice President of Customer Marketing at Register.com,
I’ve come to the conclusion that there are three basic blog layout types. This, after twelve years and several thousand blogs designed. Fixed width, Full width, and a Hybrid layout that combines elements from the first two. Each layout type has its advantages.
A Fixed Width layout is very traditional with all content framed in
A law blogger publishes an awful lot of content. They put in a lot of time. But is anyone listening? Is the insight you’re sharing helpful?
Until someone walks up to you at a conference and says they really liked a post of yours, often a post from a while ago, you don’t really know.
Law blogs published by practicing lawyers, particularly blogs published on niches, improve people’s access to legal services.
“People” refers to any and all of us—consumers, small business people, executive directors, corporate executives and in-house counsel.
I’ve never talked with a lawyer publishing a good law blog who hasn’t found that many of the people who
Syndication as we’ve come to known it is akin to the TV show Seinfeld. When the show ended in 1998, folks like me saw it for the first time in reruns on various stations other than NBC, where it originally ran.
In a nice piece on content syndication and blogs, Brendan Barron explains the basics