Martindale Connected Membership More than Doubles
As of today, there are approximately 7,500 members of Martindale-Hubbell Connected. When I joined back in March there were 3,000 members of the company's online social network.
Granted, it's far from the 563,000 lawyer members that LinkedIn has, according to Steve Matthew's Stem Blog. Yet Connected's growth numbers are impressive for a site that launched officially two months ago.
Martindale launched a beta version of Connected last May, 2008 with about 20 members. The beta grew from 20 to about 3,100 over a period of about 10 months until official launch.
Also interesting are Connected's international community statistics. Over 16 percent of the Martindale community members are international (non-US) lawyers, representing 111 countries.
What lawyers like about Connected is that (a) it's for lawyers only and (b) all members are authenticated to be who they say they are. Any lawyer can join at http://www.martindale.com/connected
