From the category archives:
No matter when it started, ‘social media’ (e.g. blogs, Twitter, wikis and social networks) has arrived and it’s definitely here to stay.
If you don’t know a blog from a bullfrog, you’ve probably had the feeling that you should get to know pretty quickly. You may not want to be an expert, but you’d at least [...]
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“I don’t have time for social media chatter “ is a claim often heard by many people, including lawyers “I don’t want to know what you had for breakfast, or that you took your dog out for a walk.” The perception of the information overload social media creates is fundamentally a misconception of social [...]
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A wave of texts has hit our shores this week. Hungry for knowledge and information, curious to hear our leaders’ thoughts, tips and experiences, the world’s need for some guidance on how to apply social media to business settings has not gone unnoticed by the social media world. Here [...]
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Jeremiah Owyang, a leading Forrester analyst who has build himself a solid name in the Social Media world, is leaving Forrester to focus on a business of his own. In ‘the year of Social Media’ where social media value is widely recognized and everyone is a Social Media enthusiast, building a [...]
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In the past few months we here at Martindale have been focusing on delivering more targeted and useful webinars to our audience to develop a conversation around how to benefit from social media. Last month saw ‘Social Media Policy’ webinar (with James Wong, Howard Greenstein and Melanie Green), a month [...]
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How can you use online social media tools to help you with professional development?
This Thursday and Friday, we’ll be hosting a short webinar that examines that different ways Social Media and Professional Networking can be used to strengthen and build your legal career. Whether it’s about setting up the right [...]
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According to Am Law’s blog, unemployment among lawyers rose 66% last year to 20,000 lawyers out of work. Another 3,000 were laid off early this year and it seems that we hear new announcements of lay offs each week. As a natural optimist, I believe this trend will turn around soon, but to the thousands [...]
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Search has always been a central part of the martindale.com experience. If you are like most of our users, you come to martindale.com to search for a lawyer or law firm. What you may not be as aware of is the breadth of other resources right at your fingertips, including over 30,000 legal articles and [...]
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For those of you who do not know about our $10K for Charity event in Martindale Hubbell Connected, you can read all about it by clicking on the banner.
We had some movement this weekend in the standings. The Whitman Walker Clinic inched ahead of the Night of Giving and Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation. North [...]
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There has been a flurry of activity in Martindale Hubbell Connected for Social Media Policy Week, part of our summer theme Social Media Solutions. Besides the announcement of the $10K For Charity promotion, which celebrates the Martindale Hubbell Connected membership breaking the 10,000 lawyer mark, there have been guest blogs, forum postings, and document uploads [...]
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