In early September LinkedIn offered redesigned company pages to a few select companies. After much anticipation, LinkedIn is now offering new company pages to the more than 2 million companies with LinkedIn Company Pages — including your law firm. With other social networking sites such as Google+ and Facebook having more advanced company pages, it… Continue Reading
Category Archives: LinkedIn
Subscribe to LinkedIn RSS FeedCould your law firm seize your LinkedIn account?
You’d like to think that’s not possible. LinkedIn is your professional profile and network. It’s one of the principal ways lawyers create an Internet identity and nurture relationships. But Timothy Lee (@binarybits), an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute who covers tech policy for ArsTechnica, reports a federal judge last week rejected a Pennsylvania woman’s… Continue Reading
LinkedIn introduces ability to follow thought leaders
Ryan Roslansky, Head of Content Products at LinkedIn, shared on LinkedIn’s Blog this morning that Linkedin is introducing the ability to follow thought leaders. You may already follow news by industry and sources, companies, and groups. You now will be able to follow other professional’s posts on LinkedIn. Not just any professionals, but 150 of… Continue Reading
Tweets no longer on LinkedIn : I like the result of social media turf war
Ryan Roslansky (@ryos), LinkedIn’s Head of Content Products, announced on Friday that Tweets will no longer automatically be displayed on LinkedIn. Since 2009 LinkedIn users had been able to share their tweets with their connections on LinkedIn via the Twitter interface directly. This could be done automatically by choosing an option on LinkedIn to have all of your Tweets fed… Continue Reading
LinkedIn Targeted Updates : Law firms may deliver content to niche audiences
More and more law firms are turning to LinkedIn, not only for lawyer and law firm profiles, but also for business development opportunities through networking. One large law firm I visited last month is holding a ‘LinkedIn Week’ to get their over 1,000 lawyers using LinkedIn at the next level. Last week LinkedIn launched another… Continue Reading
Have a little common courtesy
I get lots of invitations to connect on LinkedIn. Maybe 30 or 40 a week, with 30 or more in a day or two following conferences I attend or present at. I’m not complaining. Nor am I boasting. 99% of the invites come from lawyers, executives, and various other professionals from around the world. Some… Continue Reading
How to create LinkedIn pages for each of your law firm’s practice groups
Don Schindler (@donschindler), Marketing Director at the University of Notre Dame, recently met with Linkedin, which was interested in helping the University advertise on LinkedIn. Schindler’s personally a big fan of LinkedIn. He also has the University of Notre Dame set up with a company page on LinkedIn. But a big problem for Schindler is… Continue Reading
How to make full use of your law firm’s page on LinkedIn
PCWorld’s Angela West (@angelawest) had a nice article this morning on setting up a company page on LinkedIn. West detailed how to make full use of a company page, much of which I was not familiar with. There’s some low hanging fruit for law firms looking to make better use their company page on LinkedIn…. Continue Reading
Sharing news on LinkedIn to stay connected and enhance your profile
Clipping articles from newspapers, magazines, or journals and sharing them with clients, prospective clients, and business associates with an accompanying note of why you shared it with them has always been an effective networking tool. Post-it Notes and the copier machine made it easier. And today, LinkedIn allows you to share articles on steroids. Log in to… Continue Reading
Who owns your employee’s LinkedIn connections at your law firm?
Last month I asked who owns the Twitter followers at your law firm? My question was precipitated by the Phonedog.com lawsuit in which an employer claims the employer owns the Twitter account started by an ex-employee while still an employee. The Wall Street Journal’s Joe Palazzolo reports before we had an employer’s claim to Twitter… Continue Reading
Share your phone number and more on LinkedIn
Lawyers moan about not having enough good work, yet make it difficult for people to reach them via social networks. I don’t know how many times lawyers have told me, “I value my privacy, I don’t freely share my contact information online.” C’mon get over it. What do you really think is going to happen… Continue Reading
LinkedIn now the social media platform of choice for lawyers and law firms?
Pedram Tabibi (@PedramTabibi), an associate attorney at Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone has a nice piece in Young Island, part of the Long Island Business Journal, on LinkedIn now being the social media platform of choice. Per an article Tabibi had read in Entrepreneur Magazine on how to generate leads from LinkedIn, LinkedIn was voted… Continue Reading
“How LinkedIn Can be Used for Business Development” — LexBlog Client Webinar on October 27
LinkedIn is undoubtably the most widely accepted professional social network, with 120 million members around the world, including executives at all Fortune 500 companies. Even attorneys who don’t use other social media have LinkedIn profiles. However, most don’t take full advantage of the services LinkedIn provides. On Thursday, October 27 at noon Eastern (9 a.m…. Continue Reading
How to get followers of your LinkedIn law firm page
Law firms are turning to LinkedIn in a big way. Many law firms are finding LinkedIn to be the profile of record for their lawyers. And why not? LinkedIn is where their clients have profiles. Business people look each other up on LinkedIn. A lawyer’s LinkedIn profile, with any work on it, is likely to… Continue Reading
LinkedIn most popular social network site for journalists
If you’re a lawyer looking to serve as a resource or reliable authority for reporters, start using LinkedIn. Per an article at Marketing Charts, LinkedIn is the most popular social network among business journalists, with 92% having a LinkedIn account, according to the 2011 Arketi Web Watch Media Survey released in July 2011. Facebook follows… Continue Reading