Bob Ambrogi to Keynote Avvocating!
I am happy to announce that Bob Ambrogi will be keynoting next month’s Avvocating conference. Everyone at Avvo is very excited about this. As we discussed in our recent “Favorite Legal Blogs of 2009” post, Bob is one of the legal industry’s most insightful commentators. Bob’s speech will be entitled, “Empowerment Through Social Media” and will cover the following:
- How social media has developed for both lawyers and consumers
- Why social media is a good thing for lawyers, including empowering them to be better marketers and run their practice more efficiently
- Why social media is empowering for consumers as well, and why that is important for lawyers to understand
Bob’s speech looks like the perfect addition to an already great line-up of speakers from LinkedIn, Facebook, Google, Microsoft Bing, University of Washington, Avvo, etc. If you have not already signed-up, you can do it online by visiting our Avvocating page.
Here is Bob’s official bio for a little more flavor on his background:
Robert J. Ambrogi, Esq.
Rockport, Mass.Bob has been writing and speaking about lawyers and the Internet for more than 15 years. He is author of two books, The Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, now in its second edition, and The Internet Guide for Massachusetts Lawyers. Since 1993, his syndicated column about the Internet has appeared in legal periodicals throughout the U.S., and Law Technology News has published his award-winning Web Watch column since 1999. He founded the first Internet newsletter for lawyers, legal.online, in 1994. He continues to track new and intriguing Web sites for legal professionals through his blog LawSites. He also writes the blog Media Law, and co-authors Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch. Since August 2005, he has co-hosted a weekly legal-affairs podcast, Lawyer2Lawyer, available through the Legal Talk Network or on iTunes.
A practicing lawyer and mediator, Bob also provides editorial, media and Web consulting to law firms and law-related companies. Formerly, he was with American Lawyer Media in New York, where he was editor-in-chief of the National Law Journal and editorial director of ALM’s Litigation Services Division, responsible for the division’s Web sites and other print and electronic publications. Earlier, as director of the ALM News Service, he founded a daily newswire reporting legal news and cases from all 50 U.S. states. Before joining ALM, Bob was with Boston-based Lawyers Weekly Publications, where he was founding editor of the national newspaper Lawyers USA and editor-in-chief of the company’s flagship newspaper, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. A 1980 graduate of Boston College Law School, he is a fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, a trustee of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation and an active member of the Massachusetts Bar Association.
I look forward to seeing all of you at Avvocating on January 21st and 22nd.
Mark
