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Blogging for Business
Using Web Communication to Enhance Information Delivery
Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, PA
Exclusively for the use of Partner Firms© Copyright 2009
What is a “blog”?
• a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer; also : the contents of such a site (Merriam-Webster)
• A Web site providing a variety of different thoughts, opinions, information, and news in a compressed, news journal format. (Hopkins, J)
Back to our website
Archive of Previous Articles
Article
What am I trying to communicate?
• Expertise• Knowledge• Areas of specialty and practice• Important issues (tort reform, preemption)• Taking time to care—charity work and
other good contributions to the community
Blogging & SEO
• SEO: Search Engine Optimization• What is SEO?• the process of increasing the amount of
visitors to a Web site by ranking high in the search results of a search engine. The higher a Web site ranks in the results of a search, the greater the chance that that site will be visited by a user.
Content Changes to Websites
• Constant content changes to a website not always practical
• Blogging serves multiple purposes by presenting content change, marketing, and creation of the firm’s image as an authority
• Blogging creates an avenue to integrate multi-media into websites
Topics & Subjects
Authors & Editors
• A single editor to receive & publish • Authors need to have some grounding in
the law: lawyers, paralegals, experienced secretaries
• Authors should be creative and at least “B” writers
• Avoid too much legalese
Who is your audience?
• Your current clients• Prospective clients• Other lawyers• General public
Video as a part of articles
Video & the Power of YouTube
YouTube
Publishing Software
• WordPress – Free design and publishing• Blogger (Google) – Free design and
publishing• DotNetNuke• Tumblr.• TypePad• Xanga
Lawyer Blog Sites for a Fee
• PaperStreet.com• LexBlog: www.lexblog.com• Martindale-Hubbel• Lawyers.com• Justia.com• Scorpion.com
WordPress.org
WordPress Simple Dashboard
New Publishing -- WordPress
Edit Published Blogs
User/Author/Subscriber Interface
Google Blogger—It’s Free
Keywording
• a term used as a keyword to retrieve documents in an information system such as a catalog or a search engine
• Including keywords in blogs, which relate to area of practice
• Personal injury, attorney, defective product, bad drugs, car wreck, car crash, truck accident, slip & fall, etc…
Questions to Ask
• Who will blog?• Will the firm “police” individual lawyer
blogs?• Who will blog?• What motivation or requirement will there
be for attorney participation?• What is the focus of the blog—its niche
subjects?
More Questions
• Does the firm need guidelines for authors?• Does the firm need to restrict content?
Should editorial restrictions be placed on political, religious, and controversial topics?
• What blog training should the firm provide?
Resources
Many on-line Resources