Readers of a blog deserve an explicit statement of the value system of the blogger. For those readers who care and who pay attention, they can figure out what I believe. Even so, for the others and for myself, here are several truths I hold to be fundamental. Inside lawyers…
During three consecutive weekday mornings, I downloaded from SiteMeter the visitors’ detail. Of the approximately 300 visits, 224 were from different sites (which means that about 25 percent of the sites had more than one visit during those three days). Of the 224 distinct sites, 108 were ISP addresses and…
To have a good sense of humor is part of being a good manager. To write blog posts without humor is a slog [I just wrote about going to war and one reason, along with freedom, God and rights was to revenge the kidnapping of Helen of Troy. That is…
To improve this blog I have tried several new ventures since my last update (See my post of Feb. 20, 2009: a retrospective on the prior year, my fourth as a blogger; and Feb. 26, 2009: firsts for this blog.). Inserted my first image in a post (See my post…
Traffic is one reward for blogging, so I am always grateful when other blogs or websites either cite to one of my posts or include me on their blog roll. I have thanked 40 so far, and here add another 13 (See my post of June 17, 2009: 14 blogs/websites…
Some time having passed since I published 100 or so posts during May, I reread them all and chose the ten most provocative and interesting. For each, I wrote in brackets after the header a brief description of the post; you can click on the post title to read it…
Of the more than 300 metaposts I have compiled, 40-50 related pairs of them I have combined into what I refer to as Metapost Pluses. Each Metapost Plus has more than 10 posts, organized logically, and with several recommendations at the start for general counsel. Eventually, I hope to send…
These ten posts got the most views and clicks (the numbers in parenthesis) since January 16, 2007, when I first signed up for FeedBurner. What seems odd is that all of the posts are from March through May of this year. Unfortunately, other than that four of them concern outside…
I am honored to have become a guest author on Jason Busch’s Spend Matters, a leading blog in the area of strategic sourcing, purchasing and procurement. My forays into those who buy goods and services for companies will also appear on Jason’s blog (See my post of March 1, 2008:…
Of possible use for general counsel and other in-house professionals, many blogs concentrate on compliance-related topics, which includes ethics, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and corporate governance (See my post of Oct. 7, 2008: ethics with 29 references; June 11, 2008: compliance with 33 references; and Aug. 17, 2008: corporate governance…