Shortcuts So You Can Benefit from Blogs

So, you’ve heard about this blog thing but you’re still too overwhelmed by what it might take to reap the benefits.  After all, how can you possibly run a practice and read 700 blogs a day or set up a blog and commit to three daily posts?  Well, guess what – you don’t have to.   This month’s issue of GP Solo contains my article,  Get Your Blog Rolling where I offer a bunch of ideas on effortless shortcuts to benefit from blogs, either as a user or reader.  For example, as I point out, you don’t necessarily need to start your own blog to generate Internet exposure – why not guest post at a blog or make a couple of comments.  Just those small measures will help enhance your search engine rankings.

As for following blogs, you can track them with an aggregator or alternatively, search technorati every so often to see if a topic of interest is being discussed.  And you can also take advantage of bloggers’ knowlege and generosity by participating in some of the “all request days” that they offer.

I realize that many serious bloggers advise that a blog can’t succeed without multiple, regular postings or that you can’t optimize the benefits of a blog without reading feed from dozens.  I disagree.   Whether it’s blogging or exercise or saving money any other new habit one wants to acquire, I don’t think you always need to go all out to realize the benefits.   Doing what you can is certainly better than doing nothing at all.

14 Comments

  1. Inside Opinions: Legal Blogs on June 20, 2005 at 11:09 am

    Get your blog on — without a monkey on your back

    Carolyn Elefant has some sage words of encouragement to lawyers who want to blog — but fear the spectre of multiple, daily deadlines. Citing her recent article for GP Solo, Elefant writes:



  2. Inside Opinions: Legal Blogs on June 20, 2005 at 11:09 am

    Get your blog on — without a monkey on your back

    Carolyn Elefant has some sage words of encouragement to lawyers who want to blog — but fear the spectre of multiple, daily deadlines. Citing her recent article for GP Solo, Elefant writes:



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  4. Resonance Partnership on June 20, 2005 at 11:46 am

    Women Owned Business

    Sheri Redstone’s career may not be typical of most midlife career paths but women are starting businesses at records level and there is lots to read in the blogosphere.



  5. Overlawyered on June 21, 2005 at 6:32 am

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  6. Overlawyered on June 21, 2005 at 6:32 am

    Blawg Review #11

    …is now up, hosted by Al Nye the Lawyer Guy. Our post on the hapless Virginia couple who served liquor to their son’s friends comes in for a link, and the host has some very…



  7. Traverse City Attorney on June 30, 2005 at 2:36 pm

    I agree and have wanted to comment on this issue for a while. In the blogesphere, there is something called blog etiquette. Blog etiquette is sometimes referred to those rules which other bloggers would like to see everyone else abide by. In a sense, blog etiquette is a limiting factor on blogs. One of the key benefits of any blog is its ability to be anything it wants to be. Blogs have managed to break any number of rules in the publishing market. Blogs can also be used to break through standards and norms in the blogesphere.
    If you have a blog and want to post once every two months, go for it. Your blog will succeed based on the depth and richness of the content, not how often you post.



  8. Traverse City Attorney on June 30, 2005 at 2:36 pm

    I agree and have wanted to comment on this issue for a while. In the blogesphere, there is something called blog etiquette. Blog etiquette is sometimes referred to those rules which other bloggers would like to see everyone else abide by. In a sense, blog etiquette is a limiting factor on blogs. One of the key benefits of any blog is its ability to be anything it wants to be. Blogs have managed to break any number of rules in the publishing market. Blogs can also be used to break through standards and norms in the blogesphere.
    If you have a blog and want to post once every two months, go for it. Your blog will succeed based on the depth and richness of the content, not how often you post.



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