Comments on Generation Y entrepreneurs a business opportunity for lawyers using social media | Real Lawyers Have Blogs http://kevin.lexblog.com/2009/11/articles/social-networking-1/generation-y-entrepreneurs-a-business-opportunity-for-lawyers-using-social-media/ Donna Fenn's new book, 'Upstarts!: How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways You Can Profit from Their Success,' highlights the success of 150 CEO's born after 1975. If you haven't looked, business leaders are getting... en-us Copyright 2012 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:09:30 -0800 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:52:19 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss mhedayat@mha-law.com (practicehacker) Kevin

I know LexBlog is about helping law firms sell services using blogs, but do you see the irony in recommending they not try to lure Gen-Y clients with a cheezy approach while recommending that law firms cozy up to those same people on social networks instead? Would you hire a lawyer because someone pretending to be your new best friend said 'hey, try this'? Why not give Gen-Y a little bit of credit and offer something substantive to win their trust instead of trying to get inside their heads. Sorry but that's just creepy.

]]> http://kevin.lexblog.com/2009/11/articles/social-networking-1/generation-y-entrepreneurs-a-business-opportunity-for-lawyers-using-social-media/#6074474 http://kevin.lexblog.com/2009/11/articles/social-networking-1/generation-y-entrepreneurs-a-business-opportunity-for-lawyers-using-social-media/#6074474 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:37:39 -0800 Kevin@Lexblog.com (Kevin ) Not sure what point you are making. Social networking and social media is all about offering information and insight of value to others. You'll get no where with people on social media, Generation Y especially, if your goal is to extract something without giving.

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