Legal bloggers can blog on Twitter in 280 characters – and blog effectively.
When Twitter was launched, blog publishers often described Twitter as micro-blogging. In fact, American Lawyer Media (ALM) once asked me to do a program at their Legaltech Show on micro-blogging using Twitter.
Blogging, done at its best, is a conversation. You listen
Reading a post from Ms. JD’s Sonya Rahders announcing the winners of the 2019 Public Interest Scholarship Competition, I wanted to give a shout out to the law student winners and Ms JD for recognizing women in this regard.
After all, the passion and commitment to public interest careers of these four scholarship recipients topped
I use Twitter more to give shout outs to the good stuff being done by others than to broadcast about LexBlog and our doings.
I’ve always had a hard time believing I did something that qualified for bragging. Maybe that’s my Irish Catholic roots and my being an entrepreneur my whole life — nothing’s ever
In reviewing the digital publishing work of state bar associations, I looked at their use of Twitter.
Every state bar association, except one, is using Twitter. Many bars make their Twitter communications prominent on the front page of their website. Most invite people to follow them on Twitter.
Bars, generally, tweet news and information, varying
You may want to exercise more care when opening social media accounts, selecting social media account names and managing your accounts as you move from position to position in your career.
Caitlin Bird of Charleston’s Post and Courier reports that former South Carolina governor, Nikki Haley, lost 1.67 million Twitter followers when she left her position
Sociology professor and author of “Citizens at the Gates: Twitter, Networked Publics, and the Transformation of American Journalism,” Stephen Barnard is the latest to comment on New York Times White House correspondent, Maggie Haberman’s criticism of Twitter as a lasting medium for journalists.
With so much news, noise and criticism to sift through,
Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for ther New York Times, shared in an op-ed last week that she’s quitting Twitter — because she needs to.
Not that the New York Times wants her to quit using Twitter. Most of their reporters not only use Twitter, but the Times’ encourages them to do so
I saw in my feeds yesterday that Arizona Attorney, Jill Wiley, had been named the new chair of the board of Meritas, a global alliance of independent law firms.
Word of Wiley’s appointment came from an Asian business publication, which by being an influential publication has its stories syndicated by Google News.
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I am beginning to use Twitter more and more as a source of news and information from people and organizations I trust.
As part of doing so, I am whittling down the number of people I follow on Twitter to a more manageable number. By manageable I mean being able to open up my Twitter
Twitter is seeing big growth as a result of its move last September from a 140 character cap to a 280 character cap. Growth both as to more engaged users and its market value.
BuzzFeed News reports, via SocialFlow findings, that tweets longer than the old 140-character limit are generating much more engagement than tweets