CT Judicial Branch Joins Twitter!

On December 18, 2008 I wrote “Tweet! Judicial Branch Website! Tweet! . In that post, I argued: The judicial branch can inform attorneys and the public of programs, changes in forms, updates in procedures, decisions, court closings and a variety of other information by creating a twitter feed. Today, my dream has been realized. The Connecticut Judicial … Read more

Better Law Blog Referral Source? Twitter or Facebook

Yesterday, I was looking at a break down of this site’s traffic on Google Analytics.  Google Analytics provides me with all sorts of data about my site. Pretty much right down to what my readers are wearing when they read my posts.

Here’s a chart that kind of surprised me. It’s my referral sources. Anytime, someone got to my site from another site (e.g. google, the Hartford Courant, Facebook, and Twitter):

For reasons known only to God, I have 662 followers on Twitter.  For a point of reference, I have 627 “friends” on Facebook.

Guess which slice of that pie chart accounts for twitter referrals?

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Legal Tweeps

by Ryan McKeen If you are anything like me the first time (or first few times) you logged in to Twitter you thought “what’s the big deal?” Over the past year or so, Twitter has become the primary way that I consume news. I rely on friends and news organizations to give me the links … Read more

Chief Justice Chase Rogers Is Doing Great Job

Chief Justice Rogers gets it and Connecticut’s courts are better because of it. Check out Justice Roger’s State of the Judiciary Speech. For starters, there’s no more waiting in the rain because someone had to check his cellphone. That and all of Connecticut’s courts now open at the same time. What I think Justice Rogers … Read more

Hey Chief Justice Rogers

I’m working on a “serious” post about your speech yesterday on the State of the Judicial Branch. Well done. I came across this line in your speech but decided to exclude it from my upcoming post: Another key component of our strategic plan is educating the public about the Judicial Branch. Our most effective ambassadors … Read more

Tweet! CT Judicial Branch Website! Tweet!

I was reading in the CT Law Tribune that courts in Philadelphia have launched a twitter feed of news and announcements. What is twitter and why should the judicial branch have a feed? Most people have the same reaction to Twitter that I did: Who needs this? From Twitter wiki: Twitter is a free social … Read more