Is it time to wake up to what Twitter has become?
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For Lent I will engage more in social media
Earlier this week I began to see proclamations by my friends that they were giving up social media, namely Facebook, for Lent. I don’t get it.
A social media channel is about engaging with people, news streams, and some really cheesy quizzes to figure out your favorite Girl Scout cookie based on your Zodiac sign. At this time, it’s also filled with political rants that are nothing less than offensive, from both sides of the aisle.
Sounds like a family get together to me.
Maybe I’m missing the point of Lent (which, as a culinary Jew, is quite understandable). Aren’t you supposed to give up something that is sinful? Can you explain to me how engaging with others is a sin? If you are engaging with others online to the point of excluding your family and commitments in real life, I suppose it could be.
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What are we? Chopped liver?
Monday morning and I have 30 emails (after deleting all the spam). Pretty standard.
Interestingly, there are some great legal business conferences and seminars being advertised by ARK, ACI, etc. that I would love to attend, or send some of my partners. Unfortunately, they are ALL in New York or Chicago.
What is it about
Haters, bullies, fans and secret admirers – LMA style
My daughter is in middle school. The breeding ground for haters and bullies, so it is a conversation we are constantly having in our home.
Thinking back on my middle (then junior) high school days, at the same school, and my experience as an adult, I just told her:
You’re nobody without haters.
Haters are gonna hate. Bullies are going to bully. But really, I think they are just fans and secret admirers, but their egos won’t let them say so.
Think of it this way: You must be doing something right if you are ruffling feathers.
So embrace your bullies and haters.
Over the few weeks there are several Legal Marketing Association-related conferences, in addition to the local chapter and City Group events:
- The international association will be hosting the inaugural P3 Conference (Pricing, Practice Innovation, and Project Management) in Chicago.
- The Bay Area chapter will host their annual Legal Marketing Technology Conference (where, yes, I will be speaking).
- The Southeast Chapter’s Bridging Old Practices with New Ideas.
- The Ohio Chapter’s 2013 Legal Practice Development Institute.
- And my local chapter here in Los Angeles will host our 11th Annual Continuing Marketing Education Conference tomorrow.
Ready. Set. Let the #LMAMKT AND #LMACME trolls go!!
Oh, the attacks on the speakers. What we do. What we say.
The attacks on the content. The profession.
It won’t stop all day. And then they’ll get mad when no one engages with them.
I don’t know about you, but when I really don’t like someone or something, I just ignore it. It’s called apathy. I just don’t care.
So, just for today and tomorrow, I will remind all of you to ignore the haters and bullies. As a story teller, I have my own reasoning (ask me about it tomorrow) as to why our haters HATE legal marketers so much.
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And you call them entitled?
I was at a conference earlier this week, hanging out with the other exhibitors. Speaking with different marketing, business development folks from different industries. There were seasoned professionals. Entry level sales people learning the ropes. A mixed and diverse crowd from product to service providers. Inevitably the conversation would turn to the state of business
Practical skills for lawyers? What a concept.
I read in today’s National Law Journal that California might, gasp, require lawyers to have practical skills training before they are licensed.
A task force of the State Bar of California has recommended that new attorneys be required to complete at least 15 hours of practical skills training and 50 hours of pro bono service
What’s the etiquette rule on returning unsolicited calls and emails?
I was out of the office sick on Friday (yes, I was legitimately sick, on a Friday before a 3-day weekend, thank you very much), and am slowly going through my 100+ emails.
The amount of spam is out of control. Usually I just “block” the sender and move on.
But I am noticing a
Release the Kraken and Unlock that Content
Just sat in another program where the editor of legal publication said that under absolutely no circumstance will they open up their content. It is all safely tucked behind a firewall. They are in the business of selling newspapers, after all.
I disagree with you, Mr. Editor. You are in the business of distributing content.
Hitler and I agree: Damn You Google
I invited JD Supra’s Adrian Lurssen to my San Francisco office to give a presentation to our lawyers up here. Fire them up to take our blogging and content to the next level. We had a full house. Great discussion. And then he broke the news to me about Google Reader being retired.
Just
You really are not that special, and neither am I
Oh, I’ve been seeing people posting on Facebook and elsewhere how special they are. Seems LinkedIn sent them a notice that they are in the top 5% or 1% of profiles viewed. Yeah, yeah. Bla, bla. Me too. So what?
Am I better than 99% of you because I’m in the top 1% of LinkedIn