Hope everyone has a safe Halloween. I’ll be escorting Supergirl and Dorothy along the yellow brick rode to sugar heaven.

As we prepare to watch, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” let us all be grateful for technology. Remember the days before DirecTV, TiVo, and video-on-demand, when we had to wait once a year to

My earlier post about networking behavior off-line mirroring networking [savvy] and behavior online earned a comment from my esteemed colleague and fellow posse member, Tank. He questioned online networking’s return on investment. This topic is clearly debatable. I thank Tank for challenging me to dig deeper.

One thing is proven: with all things that you

I’m in the process of preparing an upcoming presentation to legal marketing professionals on personal branding–establishing, developing, maintaining your reputation.

I’m interested in the one activity you do (or perhaps one activity you have observed from someone else) regularly and consistently to communicate your brand. Responses can range anywhere from “I always have

This morning on Twitter (don’t worry, this is not a post about Twitter) @pistachio retweeted this challenge:

“Bravely facing another Monday? Let’s start something. FINISH THIS TWEET: “I’m not afraid of ___.”

Me? I am not afraid of having an opinion and standing by it.

Not the grandest of answers, I think it’d be cool

Can you afford to ignore your brand in 2009? What part of your budget is devoted to polishing, nurturing and feeding your law firm’s brand? Whether you are 1 lawyer or 100 lawyers -law firms with diverse practices often have a hard time defining their brand – or so it seems. Are lawyers so independent


You bet’cha! Think about the top rainmaker in your law firm (- this might be you). Where does he or she get their work? My bet is that close to 100% of the time the work comes in because someone tells someone else that that lawyer (or their law firm) is successful at getting similar

I’ve been enjoying, yet disturbed, by the conversations this week on my professional listserv about Twitter (and I’ll take the liberty to extrapolate that to social media for purposes of this post). Our debate, quoting this post, was even picked up by Cal Law today. I don’t get all of the resistance. Where