ICANN Announces Major Overhaul to Domain Naming System
This is going to have a huge impact on the Internet, probably beyond anything we can even imagine yet. Details from ICANN are here.
Internet Law News Headlines Have Returned
After a variety of technical challenges, the Internet Law News Headlines are back in action. They should be available on the usual publishing schedule of several times per week.
JD Bliss Webinar with Carolyn Elefant: “From BigLaw to YourLaw: The Secrets of Starting and Growing a Successful Solo Law Practice”
Attention all lawyers:
Many of you know that I am a guest blogger and regular contributor at the JD Bliss Blog. I’m thrilled to post this announcement about Carolyn Elefant’s upcoming webinar.
JD Bliss is proud to announce a new webinar on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 12:30 PM EST:
From BigLaw to YourLaw: The Secrets of Starting and Growing a Successful Solo Law Practice
with
Carolyn Elefant, Esq.
Attorney, Author, Blogger and Consultant
During this 60-minute webinar, Carolyn Elefant, Esq., successful solo attorney, author of Solo by Choice, and publisher of the popular MyShingle blog for solo lawyers, will cover the nuts and bolts of starting up and growing your own successful solo law practice.
Attendees will learn:
- The 9 reasons lawyers leave law firms to start their own practices
- How to evaluate whether starting your own law firm is the right choice for you
- How to write a business plan for your new firm
- Techniques to identify potential clients and markets
- 3 easy marketing tools to help build your reputation
- How to negotiate an amicable departure from your current firm without “burning bridges”
- And much more. . . . . .
Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 12:30 pm EST
Location: Participate remotely from the comfort of your own office or conference room via a webex connection!
We look forward to greeting you!
I’m reading Carolyn’s new book, Solo by Choice, and am thoroughly enjoying it. I recommend that you read the book and attend her webinar on June 3 to take advantages of these opportunities to learn about solo practice from Carolyn’s extensive experience and clear, practical, and interesting way of presenting information about this exciting sector of our profession.
First RSS Awareness Day
My Guest Article at Daily Blog Tips: “10 Essential Legal Points for Bloggers”
My guest article, “10 Essential Legal Points for Bloggers,” is posted today at Daily Blog Tips. I hope you will enjoy it.
Tweet, Tweet!
I’ve been spending time on Twitter lately. It’s an interesting tool. I am not a master of it, but I am using it more frequently. I can see how it is a networking device, but exactly how is still a bit of a mystery. I’m sure I’ll figure out how to use it more effectively as I get more practice using it. In the meantime, you can find me tweeting at:
https://twitter.com/steveimparl
Daniel Scocco Releases His New E-book, Killer Domains
Daniel Scocco, the publisher of the Daily Blog Tips blog, has just released his first e-book, entitled Killer Domains: Tools & Techniques to Find the Perfect Domain Name. The book’s seven chapters cover the following topics:
1. Introduction
2. The 7 Characteristics of Good Domain Names
3. The Process of Researching Domain Names
4. Keyword Research
5. Prefixes and Suffixes
6. Tools and Resources
7. Registering and Managing Domain Names
The book is well-written, well-organized, and filled with helpful tips and examples. I like the presentation: there are numerous headings for subtopics and the discussions of those subtopics are brief and to the point. I also really like that the e-book is published as a plain PDF document; it does not contain any of the nefarious digital rights management (DRM) mechanisms that have rendered some of my other e-books unusable.
I just bought Killer Domains this morning and have not read all of it. Also, the book is not specifically about the legal issues related to domain names. However, because of my commitment to a mindfulness-based, holistic law practice, I believe that we lawyers can do a much better job of representing our clients if we understand as much as we can about the commercial, technological, and social settings in which our clients operate their businesses. In this case, learning more about the marketing aspects of selecting and using domain names will help me serve my clients better. I am eager to read all of this book.
I hope you will enjoy this book and I am confident that you will find it useful.
Disclosure of interest: Daniel Scocco is one of my clients.
Updates to this Site/Blog/Blawg
I spent a lot of time thinking about this new Web site before I started to create it. I had experimented with various models in previous versions of this site, but I always felt like something essential was lacking. Eventually, I decided that I wanted a site that was part blog (or blawg) and part traditional Web site. I also decided to use WordPress because it allows me to do that fairly easily; I can post regular entries that contain information relevant to a particular date, while I can create pages with content that is more static and changes only occasionally.
I still have a lot more content to add in the latter category–the more or less permanent pages–but I am happy with the progress so far. As long as I can remind myself that there really isn’t some Platonic ideal of a Web site or blog that I must discover and implement, I will be motivated to continue updating this site.
News Headlines Ready to Go
Work on the site continues. The Internet News Headlines are up and running and ready to go. I will send these out several times a week, perhaps daily. Feedblitz powers these news headlines and you can unsubscribe at any time. You can subscribe using the form that appears in the rightmost column of this page.
Setting Up the Blawgroll
What’s a blawg without a blawgroll? (Yes, that’s a rhetorical question.) Rather than delay the launch any longer, I have decided to build this site incrementally instead of waiting until it was “ready” to put it online. I am adding components almost daily and the most recent addition is the blawgroll. I link to lots of other lawyers’ blogs. I have all of the ones listed in my feed aggregator and I stay up to date on them as best I can.
If you have a blawg, or even a law-related blog, that isn’t on my list and would be a good addition to it, please e-mail me at steve@imparl.com and I can probably add a link for you. While they’re not required, I do, of course, appreciate reciprocal links.
Alternatively, you can post the name of your blog and its URL in the comments, but I have to tell you that e-mail is probably a better way to get my attention. Thanks!