Digital Practice of Law: Weblogs

Using an IT Blog in Your Firm

(5-25-04) Blogging behind the firewall. What a difference a few Weblogs can make. In January, I wrote about the importance of leveraging the inherent simplicity in technologies such as RSS for enterprise information . . . At the end of March, my team held an off-site retreat and created a rolling six-month plan for IT initiatives at InfoWorld, which we posted to a Weblog available to all employees. For each month in the plan, we created a checklist of projects we would be working on and noted which ones would be completed in that month. . . Since then, my team has been using the blog-driven IT roadmap in weekly staff meetings as a platform to discuss the initiatives we have completed and to look ahead to new ones. Our meetings no longer have agendas or redundant handouts, because we don’t need them. Of course, some items have dropped off our master plan altogether, and new ones have been added, but the important point is that our master plan is always updated and readily available on our intranet, and any changes are distributed via RSS to anyone who wants to see them."

May 25, 2004 in Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

Blog or Web Site?

Online Presence: Considering Blogs Instead of Web Sites. Short concise article on the features and value of blogs from a respected technology lawyer - Jeff Beard.

May 14, 2004 in Web Sites, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Be Notified When Your Favorite Blogs are Updated

How do you keep track when your favorite Blogs are updated? "Bloglines is a free service that makes it easy to keep up with your favorite blogs and newsfeeds. With Bloglines, you can subscribe to the RSS feeds of your favorite blogs, and Bloglines will monitor updates to those sites. You can read the latest entries within Bloglines. Unlike other aggregators which require you to download and install software, Bloglines runs on our servers and requires no installation. Because your Bloglines account is accessible through a web browser, you can access your account from any Internet-connected machine."

December 07, 2003 in Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Blog Tools

PC Magazine rates Blog hosted services.
Blog Tools

"A blog can help you disseminate your views, and a hosted blog service can help you get started cheaply and easily. You can write about politics, gardening, your cats—anything you like. Depending on the service, you can post to your blog by browser, e-mail, or even phone. Enthusiastic bloggers can post breaking news before Peter Parker makes the scene.

Blogs are everywhere. Doonesbury's Zipper Harris is a blogger. Howard Dean tracks his presidential campaign in a blog (www.blogforamerica.com). Dan Bricklin, father of the electronic spreadsheet, shares his thoughts in a blog at www.danbricklin.com."

December 05, 2003 in Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0)