A Meeting Supreme: How to Work It, SCOTUS Style
Even the nation’s top intellectuals need and abide by rules, marked by simple civility and respect, to keep their workplace functioning.
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Legal MarketingNot Just an Oxymoron
Lawyers: Want Your Content Read? Follow These 7 Tips!
Like the jargon junkies they are, lawyers can’t help themselves from publishing content that not even their mothers would want to read.
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Into the Abyss: Why Law Firms Fail at Content Marketing
It’s easy for law firms to fall back on their content as a quick fix to help lawyers feel better about trying to get more business. But that’s not content marketing.
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CreativityMore Than Thinking Outside the Box
The Parable of the New Brakes
The man’s car needed new brakes, desperately. The last time he took the car into the shop, the mechanic told him he would be fine until the next oil change, assuming he drove normally. But what was normal for the mechanic was definitely not normal for the man.
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The Nature of Inspiration
It’s easy to be a thief or a mimic when something has already proven itself successful in a similar situation. But thievery or not, it does take a certain amount of brains to recognize a good thing.
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Showing & Telling at the 2015 LMA Conference
The 2015 LMA Annual Conference was a resounding success, by all accounts, and my company, Glencoe Media Group, was proud to sponsor a new feature this year: the storyboards that recorded the information presented at a variety of sessions in an innovative way that really captured the imagination of the 1,300+ attendees — the largest LMA Conference ever!
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On WritingTips & Thoughts (Always Dangerous)
Friday Fix-it: All in Apposition, Say Aye!
A punctuation rule for our sometimes fiendish friend the comma is relatively simple, and something that many of us may have learned as a fifth-grader but then promptly forgot.
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Let’s Hear It for the Semicolon; It Deserves Some Respect!
Of all forms of punctuation, perhaps none is more ignored, and perhaps maligned, than the semicolon.
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Can You Read This? Here’s the Science Behind Making Your Writing More Readable
How hard is my blog writing to understand? Turns out, not very. I’m just barely smarter than a 5th grader.
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Misc.Related But Not Always Reasonably
Stop Making These 5 Silly Social Media Mistakes
We all make silly mistakes. We’re human, so we can be forgiven for them. But sometimes silly mistakes make us look, well, silly. And nowhere are little boo-boos more apparent than when it comes to social media.
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Why Are We Working on the Weekend?
No study that I could find yet points to causation, but there are a lot of theories, most of which come back to technology. It’s now so easy to do work pretty much anywhere, especially from home, that we find ourselves not only tempted to squeeze in some work (even checking email counts) but also planning to do work on the weekends.
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Survey Says: Take My Social Media Poll Right Now!
I figured I would test out my new polling/surveying on you to see where you stand on any number of social media-related issues. It’s not like Scottish independence or anything truly relevant, though.
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