Social media consultant, Adrian Dayton, had a nice piece in the National Law Journal last week about trust and social media. …With the proliferation of social media, lawyers have an opportunity to become advisers rather then pitch men. The first step is understanding what it means to be a trusted adviser. Dayton, citing authorities from… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : October 31, 2011
A Monday filled with great posts brings out some of the LexBlog Network’s best, but while we do have commentary on serious and pertinent matters, it doesn’t go without noting that today is, after all, Halloween. With that, Joe Bornstein offers up some important safety tips. Total posts on the LexBlog Network today: 143. Presidential Politics and… Continue Reading
Social media preferable to knowledge management for law firms
Anthony Bradley, group vice president, Gartner Research, and Mark McDonald, group vice president and Gartner Fellow, Gartner Executive Programs, have an excellent piece in the Harvard Business Review on Social Media Versus Knowledge Management. On the surface, social media and knowledge management (KM) seem very similar. Both involve people using technology to access information. Both… Continue Reading
Model your career and business after Abe Lincoln
Jason Baudendistel (@JasonBaudendist) has a wonderful post today on Under30CEO entitled ‘Why Your Business Should Be Modeled After Abraham Lincoln’s Life.’ Battling life long depression, Lincoln persevered out of passion to learn and then to make a difference — in the courtroom and later on to maintain the union of our country. Baudendistel cites seven… Continue Reading
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : October 28, 2011
Ahh, Friday afternoon is finally here. With that, let’s look back at the day’s best posts. Also, watch out, Lindsay Griffiths is at it again. After two excellent series providing in-depth tutorials on Twitter and Facebook, she starts in today on Twitter. Anyone looking to get going on Twitter should be well on their way by tracking that series…. Continue Reading
Only your personal brand will save you as lawyer
Dorie Clark, CEO at Clark Strategic Communications who consults with clients from Google to the National Park Service to Yale University, has a good read for lawyers in the Harvard Business Review this week entitled, ‘Only Your Brand Will Save You.’ Clark’s story of 61 year Matt Siegel re-upping his contract so as to go… Continue Reading
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Why blog?
Lawyers won’t start blogging because of their interest in a story circulating on Twitter concerning an academic row revolving around sexual harassment in humans, and oral sex in fruit bats. But that did draw Dorothy Bishop, a Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at the University of Oxford, to blogging. Professor Bishop’s piece in the Roundtable on… Continue Reading
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : October 27, 2011
Some days the best coverage on the LexBlog Network is dominated by one practice area. Today, it’s employment law. Keelin Curran has an interesting post on the recently passed law requiring all Seattle employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees. Meanwhile, Tom Crane, Michael Schmidt, and Christopher McKinney chime in with their respective… Continue Reading
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : October 26, 2011
To me, the most interesting part of intellectual property law is easily tracking litigation surrounding inconsequential things you never ever think about. In today’s roundup, we have Michael Kahn commenting on a case involving those foam #1 Fan fingers. Yep, ridiculous. Total posts on the LexBlog Network today: 146. US Army Bars Dual US Citizens from Most Jobs –… Continue Reading
82% of small professional services businesses love LinkedIn. Have it all over law firm website bios.
A recent study by iContact that found small businesses feel overwhelmed by social media found that 82% of small professional services love LinkedIn. Overall, 63 percent of respondents approved of LinkedIn, with especially high approval rates from businesses with fewer than 50 employees. A lawyer sitting next to me at a firm retreat I was… Continue Reading
Texas Lawyer : Time for lawyers to get in social media game
Jeff Jubelirer, a media relations consultant and an adjunct professor in communications at Temple University, writing for the Texas Lawyer, says the number one question he gets from clients is whether they or their organization should “be on” or “use” social media. The answer is pretty obvious per Jubelirer: The fastest growing communications tool is… Continue Reading
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : October 25, 2011
I don’t know if I’ve admitted this previously, but not all of these roundups are created equally—the LexBlog Network has its good days and, while they’re less frequent, its not-so-good days. Today is one of the good days as we have some excellent and intriguing posts from the likes of Andrew Trask, Mike Nesteroff, Mike Danko… Continue Reading
Are you making a dent in the universe?
Reading Jason Fried’s New York Times Bestseller, Rework, he said something that really resonated me in his chapter, ‘Make a dent in the universe.’ To do great work, you need to feel that that you’re making a difference. That you’re putting a meaningful dent in the universe. That you are part of something important. That… Continue Reading
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : October 24, 2011
The biggest story of the last few days comes courtesy of our privacy law bloggers, as we’ve seen a flurry of conversation from them on Anderson v. Hannaford Bros. Co., a case coming out of the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Be sure to check out Theodore Kobus III and David Navetta’s commentary on the… Continue Reading