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The Best of the Law Firm Blogs

Some people really dig law firm blogs.  I'm not one of them.  Typically, law firm blogs are three things I'm not:  Dull, Boring, and Institutional.  Lawyers don't get paid to be colorful and interesting.  They get paid to be serious and win legal matters.  As a result, their blogs attempt to showcase their serious sides, and that makes for conservative (and pretentious) content.  ick.

Legal marketing consultants, on the other hand, often have outstanding blogs -- the best of which is Law Firm Blogging by Nathan W. Burke.

Actually, Nathan has two excellent blogs:  LFB and NathanWBurke.com.  LFB's most recent post is about a Mark Cuban keynote Nathan caught on C-span a few days ago.  (Read this great post.)  NwB.com's latest offering discusses where to put any unicorns that may result from the rollout of a law firm blog.  There's also a nifty post on ketchup marketing.  Always entertaining.  And useful, too.

BTW, that's Nathan's dog, Toby, in the picture.

Geoffrey Moore - "Dealing with Darwin"

There are lots of books on business strategy, but there are very few that make a real difference over time to the businesspeople who read them.  Everyone has a favorite strategy book, and I have one too:  Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore.

If you've ever seen the movie "Wizard of Oz," you'll recall the scene in which Dorothy's house falls from the sky, kills the Wicked Witch of the East, and when Dorothy opens the door to Oz -- the movie goes from black-&-white to color.  That's what happened to my knowledge of business after reading CtC.  Old concepts had been slain, and everything looked different.  Suddenly, I wasn't in Kansas anymore.

Strictly speaking, CtC is a book on technology marketing -- but the practical uses of the chasm model (and the "technology adoption life cycle" and the "whole product model") go waaaaay beyond I.T.  So far beyond, in fact, that Moore's model has been reworked in a number of excellent business books, not the least of which is Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin.

Anyway, Geoffrey Moore has written a new book called Dealing with Darwin, to be published next month.  From what I have seen, it superimposes the cream of Michael Treacy's landmark strategy book The Discipline of Market Leaders with the essential concepts developed in CtC.  (If you haven't read it, Treacy's book kicks strategy butt, too.  My copy is highlighted, underlined, margin-scribbled, and Post-It noted to death.)

I'll shut up now.  But suffice it to say, Darwin's going to be a real page turner, especially if you want to know how to grow your business -- whatever your business may be.  Until the book comes out, you can download Dealing with Darwin's key concept PowerPoint slides right here.  Enjoy!

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Did you see this?

This is interesting, not as much for what it is as who's writing about it:  Earlier today Seth Godin posted about an elegant new search engine called Exalead.  Then I saw Mary Ellen Bates' write-up about Exalead on Search Engine Watch.

For those who don't know, Mary Ellen is the Tiger Woods of competitive intelligence -- an amazing online researcher in a class with Gary Price, co-author of The Invisible Web.  Both Mary Ellen and Seth had promising things to say about the way Exalead presents information to users -- which can be as important as the search results themselves.  Keep an eye on Exalead.  The experts are.

See also: You Are What You Search