As I was preparing for a presentation on e-marketing I was giving at the Minnesota CLE Strategic Solutions for Solo & Small Firms, I came across many articles on websites. Here is what I learned. Now I just have to go back and work on my own site! 1. Lack of focus. Many people fail …
RSS: Your Personal Web Realtor
A few years ago I picked up a book that, right on the cover, advertised itself as a “tour de force.” Guess what? I read it; I didn’t get it. While apparently an “exceptional achievement,” it eluded me. Nothing worse than feeling dumb. I felt the same way when I asked a more tech-savvy coworker …
Staying Updated on a Budget
Keeping overhead low is one of the most important things a new solo can do while building a practice. While there are lots of ways to save money — from your office choices to technology — something we shouldn’t limit is our education. That is, staying updated on the law and learning how to run …
Jureeka: Useful and Cool, But Limited
There’s been a bit of geek-world excitement recently about Jureeka, a Firefox add-on that automatically catches legal citations in web pages, enabling you to click on the citation and get the case from one of the public online caselaw repositories. I must admit, it’s pretty nifty. But for Minnesota lawyers, it’s currently limited to Minnesota …
Applying Google’s 20 Percent Time in Practice
I took a sabbatical from writing blog posts for the last six weeks of 2010. Why? Well in November, my boss, Greg Luce, challenged staff to adopt Google’s Innovation Time Off concept for the remainder to the year. For Google engineers, that means they spend 20% of their work time on projects that interest them. …