Hot tech for Lawyers – I need your best ideas. . .
January 12th, 2010 by Conrad Saam, Sr. Marketing ManagerWe are finishing the Avvocating conference next week with a 20 minute presentation on 20 awesome secrets lawyers can use to make their practice better. This is an end-of-conference format that I’ve seen work very well – the presenter does a rapid-fire one minute walk through of 20 new, cool, interesting, or out-there ideas. The goal is lots of ideas, little depth. I have 21 items already on the list, but I’d love to put them up against some suggestions from the legal community to see who makes the final cut. The more obscure, techie, free, cutting edge, slightly out-there, the better. Suggestions can be hardware, software, websites, or even good old marketing tactics. No flagrant pimping of your product (and we won’t pimp Avvo either.)
If you have any suggestions – just submit a comment below.
Oh – and if you haven’t signed up for Avvocating: Advanced Online Marketing Training for Lawyers, please join us. Speakers include Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Avvo, Microsoft, Justia and the University of Washington. It’s January 21 and 22 in Seattle and there are still some spots available.
Thanks,
Conrad





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