The Law Professor Blogs Network 2.0: One Year Later

The Law Professor Blogs Network is the nation's only network of legal blogs edited primarily by law professors. The network owns and operates over fifty legal blogs, edited by leading scholars and teachers who are committed to providing the web destination for law professors, practitioners, government and nonprofit lawyers, legal information professionals, and students in their respective fields. Since the launch of TaxProf Blog on April 15, 2004, the network’s influence has continued to grow. At last year's CALI Conference, I unveiled a major re-design of the network, intended to provide the premier legal blogging platform to our editors. The re-design was intended to (1) optimize each blog for viewing across a variety of platforms (desktop, laptop, tablet, and smart phone); (2) better integrate social media; (3) provide more robust analytics with richer and more accurate readership data; and (4) strengthen our partnership with Wolters Kluwer Law & Business/Aspen Publishers and provide additional avenues for monetization. This presentation will explore the progress that the network has made toward these goals over the past year and explain planned future innovations.