Twitter Settles Privacy Suit with FTC
The FTC has accepted the final settlement agreement with Twitter over its privacy lapses. It appears the issue was that Twitter promised a higher level of privacy in terms of consumer’s personal data...
View ArticleTwitter: End of Business Cards for Lawyers?
Lets consider the source: an attendee at the ABA Tech show in Chicago. Jay Shepherd claims that attorneys at this show were trading their twitter handles rather than business cards. Hype Wary Social...
View ArticleLawyers & Facebook – Oil & Water?
Kevin O’Keefe posts about how attorneys shouldn’t dismiss Facebook as a networking tool. I like how he fits Facebook into the an attorney’s social marketing toolkit as something different from...
View ArticleWhy Social Media User Agreements Matter
This article published in the Montreal Gazette discusses users’ enforceable rights on Twitter, Facebook etc. While these sites require users to broadly agree to their terms of use, they claim to allow...
View ArticleTime to Say Goodbye to Twitter?
This post from a successful forensics accountant who blogs at “Sequence.com” is Tracy Coenen’s farewell letter to her Twitter experiment of more than two years. By any measure she has been successful...
View ArticleGoodbye Hello to Twitter
Yesterday, I posted about Tracy Coenen’s decision to drop out of the Twitterverse. And today, two more legal marketing gurus, Carolyn Elefant and Kevin O’Keefe, have jumped into the fray to discuss...
View ArticleCA Rules on Advertising etc. Will Finally Get Approved
On the “draft” version of the rules of professional responsibility it clearly states that they were adopted in June and then in September of 2010. Now it seems that some of the rules are coming before...
View ArticleTime to Revisit Your Twitter to LinkedIn Connection!
If you like to “tweet” on LinkedIn, i.e. share your tweets with your LinkedIn followers through your status updates automatically, you have a bit of work to do. You will have to “tweet” on LinkedIn...
View ArticleTwitter Being Taught in Legal Ethics Courses
Renee Knake who teaches ethics courses at Michigan State University has introduced Twitter into her classroom activities. Why? The ABA is requiring a higher level of technological competence from...
View ArticleFacebook versus Twitter as a Business Social Media Tool
I was talking with a potential client the other day about how being active on social media. Inevitably we ended up discussing Facebook. Neither one of us were fans of it for business yet we both...
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