Bev Butula has written an article on blogs for the Technology section of the May edition of the Wisconsin Lawyer. The article entitled “Blogs – Another Online Resource” provides some good thoughts on the benefits of reading blogs:

A good blog can enhance professional development because keeping informed translates into good business. Law journals, newsletters, magazines, and newspapers can accumulate in an office, often read only when a large block of time becomes available. Office routings can be slow in arriving. On the other hand, reading a Weblog (and possibly having it delivered to your email account) offers a concise, current, and focused summary of relevant information. And, unlike office routings or journals, a link (if included) supplements the Weblog piece by leading the reader to a decision, opinion letter, or full text article.

If you have ever been a part of large organization, you can relate to that statement. Remember that newsletter that arrives in your office in May of 2004 when it was dated back to October of 2003? As it got passed around from office to office, and sat on desk after desk for weeks, it finally arrives in your inbox. By then, the news is old, stale and outdated. . .

(No stale stuff here at Benefitsblog–hopefully! Many thanks to Bev for mentioning Benefitsblog in her article.)