I haven’t really been following the debate of whether or not microblogging (Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook “updates”) is/will/can kill blogging.
Kevin O’Keefe has a piece today, Law blogs far from dead in this world of microblogging : Blogging is on the rise that goes into detail about why blogs aren’t dead.
Personally, I didn’t need
I’m really enjoying 5 Ways Social Media is Changing Our Daily Lives by Soren Gordhamer, which I found via my Google Reader, which was posted to Mashable.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot of late. How I discover, read, share and distribute information has changed in the past two years, and
Yes, I’m still reading and enjoying Trust Agents.
A concept that I have been playing with of late, along with good colleagues Jayne Navarre and Russell Lawson, is that we’re not so much doing different things in social media and social networking as much as we are doing the same things, only differently.
I finally put down my summer reading and picked up Chris Brogan and Julien Smith’s Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust (which has been sitting on my nightstand since the day it came out).
Where have I been?? Oh, yeah, pre-WWII Shanghai, pre-Tudor Court England
I know that times are tough. The economy, despite what the pundits are saying, is still precarious. Law firms continue to lay off good employees as they right size their business initiatives to the changing economic models.
However, there are some open (Legal) Marketing positions in the Los Angeles area that need to get filled.
A very interesting conversation is taking place on Kevin O’Keefe’s blog, Real Lawyers have Blogs, and on Twitter (unfortunately, no hashtag to follow) as to whether it is appropriate to use social media as a distribution channel for law firm content.
In the “No” corner is Kevin O’Keefe, blogger extraordinaire to the legal
Bzzzzzzzzzzz. That sound you hear are the wheels spinning in my head. Or is it the bee in my bonnet. Or the new rant I feel coming on about being transparent in our online social networking and social media.
Remember Coolerites, for me, social networking and social media are about getting to know, like and
Every so often I receive a request to post information on The Legal Watercooler about something that would help the person sell something that I wouldn’t even buy.
At other times, I have been asked by close personal friends and colleagues, including people I have only met through social networking tools, particularly Twitter, if
Oh, it’s that time of the year. Budget and marketing plan proposals are being drafted.
My friend, colleague and Legal Watercooler contributor Jayne Navarre published on her Virtual Marketing Officer blog a 2010 Law Firm Marketing Plan that I can highly support.
It’s short, memorable, and something that can be lived, even if tossed into
One of my new soap box rants on the importance of social media and social networking is that it allows clients to get to know, like and trust you BEFORE they ever meet you.
Before a prospective client picks up that phone to take your call, he or she has already formed an opinion about