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Legal community abuzz about LexTweet

Lisa Kennelly
January 06, 2009 18:15

Many of you (we hope) are familiar with LexTweet, the website LexBlog launched a few days ago. As Kevin explained last Friday, the goal of the site is to showcase members of the legal community who are using Twitter as well as what they are tweeting. There has been a lot of feedback and a fair...

SAG: No Good Reason to Strike

Jonathan Handel
January 04, 2009 05:16

There’s turmoil planned for the upcoming Jan. 12-13 SAG National Board meeting, reports the LA Times. SAG’s National Executive Director Doug Allen and the current negotiating committee may find themselves bounced out unceremoniously by the moderates—or they may not. The strike authorization vote, ...

Does a Facebook presence help? Discussion on LinkedIn

Lisa Kennelly
January 02, 2009 22:32

Hi, my name is Lisa and I'll be helping out with the blogging here. I'll be bringing you some interviews and news tidbits, as well as links to hot discussion topics from the Legal Blogging group on LinkedIn. Here's a topic over at the Legal Blogging group that Kevin has blogged about in the past,...

Sanjana Hattotuwa

Sanjana Hattotuwa
December 29, 2008 15:42

Over the course of 2008, Groundviews published over 250 compelling contributions from ordinary Sri Lankans, award winning poets and authors, renowned academics, diplomats, civil servants, leading civil society activists and others. Sri Lanka’s first citizen journalism website and operating...

Digital entrepreneurism the future for journalists

Kevin O'Keefe
December 28, 2008 19:21

Bill Pollak, CEO of Incisive Media North America (parent to American Lawyer Media), and I have been exchanging thoughts on Twitter the last couple days about journalists leaving main stream media (MSM) to go solo. The discussion was precipitated by my views that legal publishing, like we've seen...