I am writing this post from Coeur d’Alene in Idaho.  The M&L group has just finished the first day of their 3 day conference at this beautiful lakeside resort.  I haven’t been to M&L for a few years, and it has been so nice to see friends that I haven’t seen for quite some time.  Of course, Bill Berg is one of my favorites.  Bill is the one that first took a chance on me when I left my position with a Philadelphia law firm and ventured out as a consultant.  My friend and client Terry Bryant is here.  I always get such a kick out of Terry.  We share a thing about time.  I had to laugh yesterday when I was leaving the Spokane airport for the 40 minute trip to the resort.  Terry and a few other attorneys were waiting to get on a shuttle to make the trip.  As I walked by Terry heading towards my rental car he was looking at his watch saying that the shuttle was not meeting his time schedule.  So Terry and 4 others jumped in the rental car with me and we had a fun trip over.  I’ve been working with Rainwater, Holt & Sexton for quite awhile now but we had never actually met in person until yesterday.   Mike is holding down the fort back in Arkansas but both Stephen Holt and Bob Sexton are here. 

A couple of my Atlanta clients came in this afternoon - Tom Ashenden and Bruce Millar.  Greg Stokes, also from Atlanta will be here tomorrow.  Greg has a terrific marketing director, Melanie, and I was so glad to get to meet her this evening.  Melanie gets things done.  It’s great.  She is a mover shaker!

I could go on and on but the hour is late and I want to wrap this up.  I do want to mention one resource that I discussed during my talk today and that is www.ustream.tv.  I have a test site set up and it’s at this link:  www.ustream.tv/channel/legal-marketing-cafe.

Las Vegas attorney Richard Harris and I chatted at the cocktail party tonight and we set Richard up on UStream.TV.  If you want to take a look, here is a link to his show site:  http://www.ustream.tv/channel/las-vegas-personal-injury-lawyer.  Obviously he hasn’t done a broadcast yet but my guess is that he will before long!

 If you’d like to know more about UStream.TV, feel free to email me at cindy@cindyspeaker.com and I’ll help you get started!

Ustream.TV is catching on like wildfire.  It’s a technology that allows virtually anyone with a $100 webcam to broadcast a live TV show over the Internet.  And that’s exactly what I did for the first time tonight.  You can see the rather rough and raw video at the link below:

Live Video streamed by Ustream

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/legal-marketing-cafe 

Don’t be too critical - I wanted to capture my first attempt so that hopefully we will witness a progression as a better understanding of the interface emerges!

If you’d like to know more about Ustream.TV, check out this 6 minute video with the vision of the two West Point founders.