Alastair Otter, a twenty year media veteran and now head of Media Hack, a media training and consulting business, shared seven reasons why editors ought to be on Twitter. I thought many of his reasons reasons were spot on for lawyers. I’m tired of lawyers saying they don’t have time for Twitter and that’s there… Continue Reading
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“Twitter for Professionals” — webinar recording now available
Thanks to all who attended "Twitter for Professionals" yesterday morning (or afternoon, for the East Coast folks). LexBlog CEO Kevin O’Keefe shared the strategies he follows when using Twitter for professional and business development. Kevin started off with a simple question: why should you consider using Twitter? Twitter is a way to "instantly connect with… Continue Reading
“Beyond Blogging: Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn” — webinar recording now available
Thanks to all who attended today’s webinar "Beyond Blogging: Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn" — we had some great questions from the audience, and have already heard of at least one new Twitter account created as a result! LexBlog CEO Kevin O’Keefe provided an overview of these three social media powerhouses and how attorneys and other… Continue Reading
“Beyond Blogging: Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn” – LexBlog Client Webinar on June 28
A blog is just one element of social media. You might also have a Twitter, Facebook and/or LinkedIn account, or perhaps you’re curious about using these tools and want to know more. If you are like many professionals, you may be wondering how to best utilize these services for business development purposes. On Tuesday, June… Continue Reading
Mobile Facebook, Twitter growth explodes in prime age group for law firms
The 35 to 54 year old age group, a sweet spot for law firms seeking to build relationships with clients, prospective clients, and referral sources, is the leading age group for mobile social networking via Facebook and Twitter. This per a report from Marketing Charts on the exploding growth of mobile Facebook and Twitter. Despite… Continue Reading
Twitter for Client Development: recording and mindmap now available
We saw another great turnout for this month’s client webinar, with 200 attendees. There was a lot of information packed into this one on the Value of Twitter for Client Development, so check out the recording here and on our Support site, and download the mindmap by clicking on the image above. If you had… Continue Reading
LexBlog Network Webinar: The Value of Twitter for Client Development
One of our most popular webinar topics is Twitter, and it’s easy to see why. Twitter captured the world’s attention in 2009, and for our first LexBlog Network webinar of 2010 I’d like to focus on lawyers and legal professionals can use Twitter, in conjunction with a blog and other social networking tools, for client… Continue Reading
Real time search comes to Google : Twitter results displayed
Real time search came to Google yesterday. Twitter results are now streamed into the top of search results pages so that you can see what people are saying about the subject searched in real time. Lawyers should not view this as gimmick. Imagine being able to get lawyers’ and business peoples’ reactions to cases, news,… Continue Reading
TweetDeck is another reason to use own name as user name on Twitter
Need another reason to use your own name, as opposed to a pseudonym, as your username on Twitter? Beyond the fact that your own name is how people know you. For making it easy for people to give you proper attribution on Twitter on TweetDeck, a desktop application many of us use to Twitter. I… Continue Reading
19% of Internet users use Twitter or update status site : Up nearly 100% since April
The public’s growing use of Twitter or other services to share updates provides fertile ground for lawyers to network and engage their target audience. Per a just released survey on Twitter and Status Updating from the Pew Internet & American Life Project: Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service… Continue Reading
Law blogs far from dead in this world of microblogging : Blogging is on the rise
New media author and consultant, Louis Gray, reporting from Blog World ’09, blogs that even in this age of microblogging (Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed), blogs are far from dead. Even as the microblogging space seems to be white hot these days, the world of longer-form blogging is still seeing impressive growth, with all major blogging platforms… Continue Reading
Legal Rebels webinar on Twitter – recording and mindmap
Thanks to all of you who attended today’s webinar, Why Twitter Matters to Lawyers, part of the ABA Journal‘s Legal Rebels’ 24 Hours of Rebels. We had a great turnout of close to 500 attendees. You can download the above mindmap that Kevin used in his presentation. You can also view a previously recorded webinar… Continue Reading
Big debate whether Twitter works for client development is much a do about nothing
It’s foolish to argue whether legal professionals can use a social media tool such as Twitter for effective client development when many lawyers and other legal professionals are already doing so. Twitter’s just a tool, among many other social media and networking tools. If Twitter fits within your client development strategy, you’ve figured out how… Continue Reading
Twitter and machines that follow you
90 per cent of the people (things) who begin to follow me each day on Twitter are machine generated. These things are not included in my current followers as these things stop following me when I don’t follow them back. Let me explain. Each day I go into my email to see 50 or 60… Continue Reading
Twitter for client development for lawyers : Being an intelligence agent as good as it gets
Imagine 15 years ago as a practicing lawyer taking 30 minutes in the morning to skim news headlines from 400 or 500 reliable news sources you selected because they offered news and commentary related to your work as well as monitoring keywords relevant to your area of law (clients’ names, subjects, cases, and the like)… Continue Reading