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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Is Faxing Dead? No, Just Different

Is Faxing Dead? No, Just Different

The rollout of the fax machine in the 1980s was revolutionary. Instantly sending pieces of paper through the ether to another person on the other side of the country or the globe? It blew our minds for a while, and then became an indispensable part of every office. (Check out this photo of what is said to be the very first fax machine, used by a post office in Europe in 1979).

But in 2010, has the fax become a relic of the 1980s, like "big hair, Cabbage Patch Kids, and padded shoulders?" (Or, more specific to law offices, like law review subscriptions, typewriters, bike messengers and law libraries?) In a guest post on the Legal Technology Blog, Steve Adams of Protus says that faxing remains a vital part of the business world despite the advent of e-mail.

Adams notes that faxing is still used on a daily basis in many professions: by real estate agents and insurance brokers, for example. The key change in the use of faxes, he says, is that an actual fax machine is fading away as a means of sending and receiving faxes, in favor of Internet fax services. Adams says that Internet fax services can do things a fax machine never could: [MORE]

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Posted by Bruce Carton on March 18, 2010

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lawyerschile: Should I Scrap My Law Blog and Start a New One?


Should I Scrap My Law Blog and Start a New One?

Delete Throughout more of the blogosphere than you might expect, a question appears to be percolating: Should I shut down my current blog, make a clean break, and start anew with another? Well-known bloggers such as Bob Ambrogi are asking that question. So is Venkat Balasubramani. And so is Ron Coleman.

Why the urge to purge? Ambrogi says he started his LawSites blog back in 2002 as an adjunct to his book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web. As his blogging interests have broadened through the years to things like media law and technology law, however, he feels that "the name LawSites no longer reflects what I want my blog to be."

Similarly, Balasubramani has been blogging at Spam Notes for about 3-and-a-half years on spam-related legal issues. His interests and his law practice have broadened well beyond the spam arena, and he, too, is wrestling with the question of whether to scrap Spam Notes and launch a new blog. In this post Balasubramani lays out in detail some of the pros (branding; chance to move to a better platform; fresh start with no baggage) and cons (loss of "google juice;" loss of subscribers/regular readers during the transition) of scrapping his current blog.

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Posted by Bruce Carton on March 18, 2010

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Chile's new government

Chile's new government

Running to rebuild a shaken country

Lacking his predecessor's popular touch, Sebastián Piñera (below) and his team of business technocrats will face pressure from Chileans for quick results

Mar 18th 2010 | SANTIAGO | From The Economist print edition

HE HAS always been hyperkinetic. But taking office as Chile's president just 12 days after a devastating earthquake has thrown Sebastián Piñera into a frenzy of activity. No sooner had he been sworn in on March 11th as the country's first elected right-of-centre leader in half a century than he was off on a helicopter tour of the damage from a big aftershock, cancelling lunch with seven visiting Latin American presidents. Having set up an emergency committee under his interior minister to handle the disaster, Mr Piñera is doing much of the work himself, holding cabinet meetings late into the night and making whistle-stop visits to the worst-affected areas in south-central Chile.

He has a big task ahead of him. The ground is still shaking. Parts of the coast have been raised by two metres. The death toll (at around 500) is lower than at first feared. An official in the outgoing government reckons that 150,000 families were made homeless (down from an initial guess of 500,000). Even so, the new team guesses that the earthquake has caused damage to infrastructure, businesses and homes of some $30 billion (a sum equal to around a fifth of GDP), though it will be weeks before an accurate tally is made.

The damage is concentrated in the regions of Maule, Bío-Bío and O'Higgins, all to the south of Santiago. A string of coastal towns and villages were flattened by a tsunami triggered by the quake. They are thick with the stench of rotting fish, thrown ashore by the waves.

Schools and hospitals were destroyed or damaged. In all, some 250,000 people still lack access to primary health care according to the Pan American Health Organisation. The quake coincided with the start of the school year. Pupils from damaged schools are doubling up in others, or will use temporary classrooms. Mr Piñera has given orders that all classes must resume by April 26th.

Water and electricity were quickly restored in most places. All the main roads were made passable within a few days, although some still have temporary bridges. But some minor roads in coastal areas are still blocked or can be used only by light vehicles. Santiago airport is working again, though passengers must use tents because the main terminal building was badly damaged. So was the big fishing port at Talcahuano, in the south, as well as quays in many smaller fishing towns.

As the southern-hemisphere summer turns to autumn, the priority is shelter. A Catholic charity has begun to build emergency housing for 20,000 families. It is basic: small, uninsulated wooden huts without kitchens or bathrooms. How robust they will prove in the winter storms that typically whip south-central Chile is unclear. And another 40,000 more are needed. One local mayor has refused the huts out of fear that they will become permanent shanty towns—something Chile's governments had all but eliminated over the past 25 years of rising prosperity.

The country is far better placed to rebuild itself than it was after the previous big earthquake in 1985, let alone the one in 1960 which was of similar massive force to that of February 27th. Stricter building standards limited the damage. Insurance will cover around a quarter of the total bill, and is mostly reinsured abroad. Mr Piñera can draw on savings of over $11 billion, piled up in an offshore sovereign fund by his fiscally prudent centre-left predecessor, Michelle Bachelet. The government has almost no debt and an investment-grade credit rating. Ordinary Chileans are better able to help each other too: a telethon held earlier this month for the housing charity raised $59m, twice its target.

Chile's big copper mines, which produce around half its total exports, lie north of the quake zone and were unaffected. But many labour-intensive export industries—forestry, fishing, wine and fruit—were hurt. A strong economic recovery, after last year's recession, has been dented, though investment in reconstruction will boost growth by the end of the year.

All this will be a big test for Mr Piñera, a successful businessman whose political skills are relatively unproven. Ms Bachelet's natural empathy with ordinary Chileans meant that she left office with an approval rating of over 80%, even though her government's immediate response to the earthquake was not faultless.

Chileans will look to Mr Piñera for results. His cabinet is stuffed with technocrats, most of them educated at private schools and Santiago's Catholic University. Many have close ties to Chile's main private business groups. Respect for their technical skills and efficiency could easily turn to resentment in a country that has just become poorer and even more socially unequal. The new president had better keep running.

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lawyerschile: OECD Recommendation for Further Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions

OECD Recommendation for Further Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions

The Recommendation for Further Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials was released on 9 December 2009, when the OECD marked the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention.

 

The Recommendation was adopted by the OECD in order to enhance the ability of the 38 States Parties to the Anti-Bribery Convention to prevent, detect and investigate allegations of foreign bribery and includes the Good Practice Guidance on Internal Controls, Ethics and Compliance. For more information about the Recommendation:

 

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What Belly Dancing Taught Me

What Belly Dancing Taught Me
about Personal Branding

by Lisa Barone

image of belly dancer

I'm learning to belly dance.

Okay, that's totally overstating it. I'm wiggling to music in what is labeled a belly dancing class.

I've found that I enjoy the constant movement, manipulating my limbs and taking any excuse I can to be silly. But more fun than the belly dancing is the instructor.

She loves this stuff. Her eyes light up when she enters the room, her voice changes pitch, and she hops around throwing out euphemisms that make even the bravest people blush. She's a complete fruit loop. And she's loved for it. It's her schtick.

Or, in marketing terms, it's her personal brand.

Oh no, not another post about personal branding

We've been hearing about personal brands ad nauseum for the past year. Even if you're not sure why you need one, you're certain that you do. It's like a 401k. Or a spouse.

The trouble is, most personal brands make everybody else want to jab forks straight into their eyes. They're based on egos, false promises, and personalities so obnoxious that you'd never be friends with this person in real life.

But as my belly dancing instructor has taught me, you don't have to build a personal brand on being an egomaniac. You can build your brand on simply being human. Or better yet, you can build your brand on being your favorite version of yourself.

How do you create a personal brand that will garner attention instead of hate? Here are some tips I've picked up from my experience on the Web.

And belly dancing.

Claim your niche

My belly dancing instructor doesn't teach the hip hop class that takes place after her session. Nor does she teach the weekend kickboxing class. She's limited herself to belly dancing because she knows that's where she can offer the greatest value.

Trying to teach everything would undermine what she's about and the tribe she's looking to attract. She sticks to what she does better than anyone else.

Think niche. You can't be known for everything. Pick what's most important to what you do, break it down to its simplest core, and be it.

While Copyblogger has established itself as one of the Web's top resources on content, Brian Clark has branded himself the master of headlines. It's a tiny microcosm of the whole content creation space that he owns. It's where he's untouchable.

Create your character

Like I said, my instructor is a fruit loop. The moment you think you've seen everything, she ups the ridiculousness.

She tears her sweats so you can watch her legs curl, and refers to body parts in ways you wish you could erase from your mind. She knows who she needs to be to attract the right audience, and she plays up her quirks to do so. She builds a tribe that falls in love not only with her class, but with her. It becomes so that the class and brand are so intertwined that you can't tell them apart.

Lots of people will tell you to "be yourself" in social media. I'd advise creating a persona that mixes who you are and who you want to be. This heightened version of yourself allows you to lose the performance anxiety and magnify the personality traits needed to attract the right people.

We fall in love with those who are brave enough to do what we think we can't. As long as you're basing your character off who you really are, you'll be able to keep it authentic and still look great naked.

Treat people like humans

My instructor has been dancing for longer than I've been an adult. She's trained in moves and styles that my stiff body can't even comprehend.

But you wouldn't know that by talking to her. She's unassuming and talks to you like you're old friends meeting up for coffee. And she keeps that tone even when instruction has begun. There's no jargon to confuse us, no making things complicated so we feel dumb and she wouldn't dare call herself an "expert" or a "guru." She's just someone who loves belly dancing and is excited about the opportunity to share it with us.

Finding your voice and using it to be relatable is what will make or break your personal brand. It's what separates the brands we love from the brands we wish would die.

It's all about your ability to talk to people in a genuine way and show them that you're one of them. This is where most people get tripped up. We elevate ourselves thinking that it makes us more impressive and authoritative and that our audience will trust us more. Truthfully, all this does is alienate you from the people you're trying to connect with.

Figure out what the real you sounds like, and then use that voice to be real with others. You can't fake this.

Make your brand accessible

My instructor shows up to class early. She stays late. She takes questions in the middle of instruction and will show and re-show certain movements until you've nailed them. Her email address is publicly available so that students can email her with questions. She has an email newsletter to help us stay in contact with not only her, but one another.

She's not teaching a class, she's creating a community.

When you make your brand accessible, you help it grow beyond your niche. Become part of your community. Answer questions. Lift up those who are doing well. Share trusted information. Look for ways to extend your brand through blogging, guest postings [cough], email newsletters, and direct mail.

Everything that you put out should incorporate and promote your personal brand. The more people see you and your tribe, the more they'll gravitate toward it. It's social proof.

Your personal brand is you. It's who you are, what you believe, and what you want to put out there to others.

Use the social tools available to be you as loudly as you can, while always offering a benefit to those around you. Your personal brand may be all about you, but it's also about how you make others feel.

It's emotional DNA, and what separates the personal brands we love from those we love to tear apart.

About the Author: Lisa Barone has the totally pompous title of Chief Branding Officer at SEO consulting firm Outspoken Media. She tries to make up for the title by blogging Important Stuff on the Outspoken Media blog and being amusing on Twitter at @lisabarone.

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