From the category archives:

Web 2.0

TweetSocial media has arguably transformed the way many companies do business, particularly how they interact with the public. However, as the business advantages of this new technology continue to grow, so do the legal risks. Many of these risks can be traced back to the novelty of the social media phenomenon. While social media issues [...]

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TweetLike it or not, if you have subscribed to a mobile social network through your smartphone, chances are your address book has been made available to other viewers and you weren’t even aware of it. Recently, it came to light that the social network company Path, which allows its users to post personal journals to friends and family, had [...]

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TweetNow that your blog is up and running, your next step is to make sure that people can find you and read your words of wisdom. One of the ways to do this is through anchor text.  You are probably aware of using keywords in text so you come up  higher in rankings on search [...]

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Tweetmartindale.com Connected has always prides itself with top notch registration validation – we’re the premier online networking community for legal professionals with more than 44,000 members, and we’re making sure all lawyers are being validated to ensure safety and strengthen trust of the community. This robust process also meant sometimes, when one was not automatically [...]

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TweetAs any of our nearly 44,000 members will tell you, one of the best features found inside martindale.com Connected is the embarrassment of riches the community offers when it concerns accessing the knowledge, insight and expertise of our members. In fact, as I write this post, Connected members have contributed nearly 13,000 blog posts to [...]

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Tweet Heading out to dinner and want to indulge your hankering for spicy food?  Well, with today’s technology, the power to select a restaurant is literally at your fingertips.  Want to catch a late movie, but don’t want to see a clunker?  That information, too, is readily accessible on your mobile device.  What happens, though, [...]

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Tweet Last Tuesday I was in NY city attending the much awaited The Business of APIs Conference organized by Mashery, the leading provider of API management services. It was a sold out crowd and why not? APIs are becoming increasingly popular and part of many companies core business strategy. Speakers included representatives from leading names [...]

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Tweet I’ve been using Foursquare now for a better part of a year and in that time, I’ve managed to check in about 1300 times, hold 15 mayorships, and collect  24 different badges.  Despite the many annoyances I find with Foursquare – inaccurate geo-location, slow, buggy, and crash-prone app, and poor data integrity (there were [...]

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TweetLast week Jon Lin in his blog post introduced the new martindale.com Connected site. I am excited to say with that release search experience at martindale.com surpassed yet another milestone! Search has always been the choice tool to find lawyers, law firms, legal articles, community content, jobs and much more at martindale.com. Last year, Jon [...]

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TweetMartindale-Hubbell Connected received a belated but very welcomed birthday present in the form of a Social Media Marketing Award from BtoB magazine. Connected, the online professional networking community for legal professionals launched just over one year ago, was chosen by the BtoB editorial team as the winning entry in the Best Closed Community category. While [...]

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