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What Avvo Answers Are Good For
I thought of a good use for Avvo’s questions today.
If you needed a regular source of ideas for blog posts, you could subscribe to Avvo’s questions in your field and answer them on the blog. Lots of the questions aren’t worth answering, but there are at least a couple a week that might make for interesting blog posts.
For example, here are today’s Texas criminal law questions from Avvo Answers:
- In Texas if someone steals and doesn’t get caught but someone wants to turn them in that saw what will happen?[Probably nothing.]
- I heard that the Minimum mandatory stay in Federal Prison was being reduced to 65%. Is that true, and when will that come in fo [No. It's a perennial myth.]
- When the prosecutor’s office receive new information that is exculpatory, what is their role? [To reveal it to the defense.]
- I need a pro bono criminal lawyer to handle a case for my 18 year old son, who is being set up. He is worried about not graduate[Good luck.]
- I took the blame for a friends theft of $230. Can I still get in trouble for ratting him out? [Probably.]
At least four out of those five questions might make for informative blog posts. No effort would be required to choose a topic for a post; all you would have to do is research and answer the question. Voilà, instant blog framework, leading to the production of on-subject content.
As a bonus, by answering on your own blog you don’t have to deal with the answhores.
4 responses to “What Avvo Answers Are Good For”
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Excellent idea. Here’s another:
I, as a non-lawyer, set up a sarcasmo blog — perhaps this is considered a “splawg”? — dedicated to the act of responding in ridiculous ways to ridiculous questions people ask, which I am not qualified to answer. Could I a) get in trouble for giving bogus legal advice, and/or b) win an ABA award?
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Amy Derby December 23rd, 2009 at 19:59