A Personal Landing Page (About.me)
Several few months ago, I blogged about my thoughts around shutting down this blog, since I started blogging over at Professor Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog. In that post, I mentioned that I still wanted to have my own online presence and that it would be nice to have a landing page - i.e., "a
single spot . . . where you should aggregate your professional online activities." ("Should I Make a "Clean Break" With the Blog? -- Looking for a Little Help From Readers.")
So, eight months later, I still have not answered the question from my post. I'm blogging regularly at Eric Goldman's blog, and enjoying it a lot (more on this later). I don't like to cross-post
what I post there here, so I've ended up posting content here that is more peripheral to the legal stuff that I blog about, or stuff that is more opinionated. However, I did come across a service that was along the lines of what I mentioned in my post about 8 months ago: About.me. My prayers have been answered! Here's a link to my About.me profile.
Seriously, it doesn't do everything I hoped. It pulls in feeds only from select services, and only allows you to add a limited amount of content. You could put together a page like this on your own fairly easily (without the service) and I've seen many people aggregate their on-line activities on one page. (Here's one good example I recently came across.)
It offers analytics, which is nice, but something you could pretty easily accomplish on your own as well, through using services like Google analytics. I'd love to be able to add links from the week's posts, and other tidbits, without having to manually enter in this information. I do know that it makes it easier for people to contact me. Since I've started using it, I've received several emails (through its "email" feature) from people trying to contact me. I've seen a few other lawyers I follow use it to put together their own pages as well. (See, for example: Lisa McGrath; Bruce Carton.)
Will people pay for it? Will it survive and thrive? I don't know, but it's a nice service.
So, eight months later, I still have not answered the question from my post. I'm blogging regularly at Eric Goldman's blog, and enjoying it a lot (more on this later). I don't like to cross-post
what I post there here, so I've ended up posting content here that is more peripheral to the legal stuff that I blog about, or stuff that is more opinionated. However, I did come across a service that was along the lines of what I mentioned in my post about 8 months ago: About.me. My prayers have been answered! Here's a link to my About.me profile. Seriously, it doesn't do everything I hoped. It pulls in feeds only from select services, and only allows you to add a limited amount of content. You could put together a page like this on your own fairly easily (without the service) and I've seen many people aggregate their on-line activities on one page. (Here's one good example I recently came across.)
It offers analytics, which is nice, but something you could pretty easily accomplish on your own as well, through using services like Google analytics. I'd love to be able to add links from the week's posts, and other tidbits, without having to manually enter in this information. I do know that it makes it easier for people to contact me. Since I've started using it, I've received several emails (through its "email" feature) from people trying to contact me. I've seen a few other lawyers I follow use it to put together their own pages as well. (See, for example: Lisa McGrath; Bruce Carton.)
Will people pay for it? Will it survive and thrive? I don't know, but it's a nice service.
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