Miscellaneous E-Things
Facebook
Lawyers
and law firms on Facebook - 28 July
We've compiled a list of lawyers and law firms on Facebook
(specifically: lawyers, law firms, and legal professionals using
Facebook Business Pages as part of their online strategy). We like
lists (think: Lawyers
to Follow on Twitter), but also thought now might be a good
time to start tracking what feels like a trend : an increasing
interest by businesses and professionals, including legal
professionals, to cultivate and engage their audiences on
Facebook. (Given the number of people who use the platform daily,
this makes sense. Meet your audience where it gathers.) - J
D Scoop website
Social Media
Welcome
to the future : oh so social? - 28 July
As we often do, many lawyers react to the notion of social
networking by first trying to come up with reasons why it might be
bad. Maybe the best place to begin is with the word
"social." Lawyer skeptics understand "social" to
describe the purpose, i.e., something different from professional.
But social simply means distributed, as in different people use the
tool in their own way, and the whole is bigger than the sum of its
parts. Certainly e-mail is a social tool - it's used to communicate,
used by different people and in different ways, and used just as
much, if not more, for personal rather than business reasons. It was
not so long ago - 1992 to be exact - that most lawyers declared they
would never use e-mail. - The
AM Law Daily website
See :
Social
networking for the legal profession - June 2009
These are fascinating times for the legal profession,
which is adapting to the recession and grappling with the
role of new technology in creating the firm of the future.
Law firms and in-house legal counsel are turning to social
technology, not just because it is novel, but because it
promises the kind of cost savings, value enhancement
and business transformation potential they need to emerge
from the downturn as leaner, more competitive
organisations. - Penny Edwards on the Headshift
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Twitter
Do
you have a Twitter account?
MBA members can now add Twitter screen names to their MBA
profiles. This will allow the MBA to follow you on Twitter. You
may also opt to include your Tweets in the MBA members feed. - Massachusetts
Bar Association website
Government
advice urges tweeting - 27 July
New government guidance has been published urging civil servants
to use the micro-blogging site Twitter. Launched on the Cabinet
Office website, the 20-page document is calling on departments to
"tweet" on "issues of relevance or upcoming
events". The website is already used by Downing Street, the
Foreign Office and many individual MPs. - BBC
News website
See
:
Template
Twitter strategy for Government Departments - 21 July
Cabinet Office
website
The
other $50 000 defamation lawsuits awaiting Chicago tweeter -
28 July
The Web is buzzing about the $50 000 defamation suit that
Horizon Realty has filed against Amanda Bonnen of Chicago.
It’s based on a comment Bonnen made on Twitter. One little
tweet! Bonnen has 20 followers on Twitter. @Horizon - Gosh,
you are now the laughingstock of just about every blogger on the
Internets. That tweet went from being viewed by 20 of Bonnen's
followers, to being reproduced and viewed by millions on the
World Wide Web. - True / Slant
website
Twitter
lawsuit, what should business learn? - 30 July
Horizon Group Management has probably by now figured out that
suing a tenant over an uncomplimentary tweet was probably not
the best course. If the company had been worried that a tweet
about a supposedly moldy apartment would damage its reputation,
it has certainly magnified that effect probably millions of
times. Forgive me if, should I move to Chicago, I choose not to
rent from a company that describes itself as a "sue first
and ask questions later kind of an organization" as though
it is a virtue. - PC World website
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