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’ve never been a big fan of the expression “eating our own dog food.” Tech companies in particular (see Google and Oracle) tend to overuse it to show that they believe in their products so much that they are willing to use it for themselves. Recently though, I had the chance [...]
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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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Yesterday was Twitter day in Connected. A few interesting posts surfaced a few interesting aspects and perspectives and I invite you to read them in Connected (Top 5 Rules for using Twitter by Bradley Clark and Twitter Blunders by Mike Mintz). A day before, in a discussion around social media guidelines around Blogging, [...]
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Today (Monday) is our first day exploring Social Media Policy and Guidelines for Law Firms and Companies. The key focus today is Blogging.
In the past few weeks I had the opportunity to re-read Naked Conversations (by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel), one of the biggest guides out there and a great eye opener [...]
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We would like to invite you to join our webinar on Social Media Policy & Guidelines that we’ll be hosting on Thursday 23rd July at 12pm EST. Whether you are struggling, debating and deliberating of what should Social Media Policy & Guidelines should include, or if you have managed to successfully form, implement and follow [...]
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