Online Education

Redefining CLE

March 30, 2011

CLE is about professional development and that doesn’t stop and start with an event–live or online. And it’s certainly not defined by the credits you submit to a regulatory authority at the end of the year. It’s an ongoing learning process that comes in many forms. Which is why my organization launched this site just over a year ago. Through it, we’re sharing all the information we learn in the course of doing what we already do: planning programs, publishing books, and looking out for the professional development of Colorado lawyers.

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Update: The Future of Online CLE Is Still Free

March 10, 2011

Talking about the post was helpful because it revealed some things I clearly had been unclear about in the post. But the future of online archives as free? I’m sticking to that. Interestingly, online provider Lawline agrees with me. Sort of. Its CEO, David Schnurman, and I actually talked about this at the meeting and he didn’t say whether he agreed or disagreed, but he did say they would soon be launching something that would interest me. They have and it did.

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The Future of Online CLE Is Free

January 13, 2011

The biggest trend in high quality online education seems to be its price–or lack thereof. So if your business model is to charge for online content, you might want to redesign. There are ways for providers to build some value in curation and positioning–attorneys don’t always have time to search for the information they need, so there’s opportunity if you can get the best piece in front of them when they don’t even know they’re looking for it, but that’s another post. And there are surely sponsorship opportunities, though they might have to be reworked, as well.

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Twitter Is Dead*

January 2, 2011

*The title of this post isn’t serious. I don’t think Twitter is dead, nor would I probably even post about its death on this blog. But it represents the problem I have with the fact that more and more people are using Twitter as a primary news and information source. Because a title like “Twitter Is Dead” is the type of title that, if used by certain bloggers, will be retweeted over and over, often by people who never even read the post itself. It just sounds like something you might want to pass along. And why spend any time reading or thinking about the post when you can distill its meaning from just three words?

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Get Your Cheap CLE Here, While Supplies Last!

September 15, 2010

One of my favorite things about LexBlog, a blogging service for lawyers, is that it doesn’t compete on price. It’s not the right choice for everyone, but it’s not trying to be. It just wants to be the right kind of service for the clients it’s trying to attract. Not that there’s anything wrong with [...]

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Law Blogs: A Third Way?

September 9, 2010

I’m not in the business of telling lawyers how to blog (read: take this for what it’s worth), but after reading this post by Adrian Dayton (H/T: Bob Ambrogi), in which he compares the personal blog and the firm blog, I couldn’t help but wonder whether he left out a compelling third way. What if [...]

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CLE Providers Already Have Community Managers; Challenge Is to Get Them Online

August 7, 2010

When you get right down to it, continuing legal education is about relationships. It’s about the relationships between providers and speakers; the relationships between providers and their legal communities; the relationships between speakers and attendees; and the relationships among attendees. And, of course, it’s about education, but the best way to ensure a quality educational [...]

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The Future of Conferences (and CLE) Probably Isn’t in “Virtual Events”

December 7, 2009

I have a confession to make. I don’t like “virtual events.” I don’t know quite why I call it a confession. I just have a feeling I’m supposed to like them. People I meet who know that I have blogged about conferences, and often about how technology is reshaping them, are always surprised–perhaps even suspicious–to [...]

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The Conference Industry Might Learn a Thing or Two from Bookstores

March 13, 2009

Image by James Cridland via Flickr When I was in college, I worked at Barnes & Noble. The place was busy open to close. I have vivid memories of heated exchanges with women who came to buy Princess Di memorabilia books only to learn we were sold out. I have even better memories of customers [...]

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Considerations When Taking Education Programs Online

March 1, 2009

ASAE has posted a video recap of a session about online education from its recent Great Ideas Conference. In the recap, Howard Horwitz of the American College of Healthcare Executives talked about things to do when rolling out online education that has been repurposed from live content. Some of the ideas he mentioned: Start with [...]

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