Over the weekend I received a couple notices from friends who are leaving Facebook and other social networking sites for “real” relationships. They’re asking that people “write” them — snail mail … not even e-mail — if they want to keep in touch.
Buh-bye.
Look, I have a hard enough time MAILING my two bills
This Friday, June 18, 2010, I’ll be joined by Renée Barrett, Jay Pinkert and Ed Poll at the Los Angeles County Bar Association‘s 3rd Annual Small Firm & Solo Practitioner Conference where we’ll present on:
Kudos and thanks to Jonathan Fitzgarrald and Cheryl Bame for gathering together some of our colleagues to produce: “Law Firm Marketing Leaders: Tips from a Collection of Experts,” (pdf). Enjoy the “5 Tips” on the following topics from some of legal marketing’s finest:
Corporate counsel read blogs? They get their news from Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin? Wikipedia is a trusted resource?? Who knew?? Well, besides all of us??
A new survey reveals that sophisticated purchasers of legal services in major corporations increasingly are influenced by attorney-authored blogs in forming opinions that influence law firm hiring decisions. Additionally, nearly
Lawyers, it’s time to cut the apron strings and do for yourselves what your marketing department has been doing for far too long. Legal marketers, it’s time to cut the apron strings and empower your attorneys to do for themselves what you have — begrudgingly — done for them for far too long. Let’s face
Maybe it’s because I live in Los Angeles? Maybe it’s because I read too many diverse news sites? Perhaps it’s because of my background in politics? But I feel in my bones that there’s a storm a brewing, and it’s gonna get a lot messier before it
Yeah, I said it without any fancy symbols to block the “offensiveness” of saying “it.” So, here, let me say it again, but louder: DON’T BE AN ASSHOLE. That’s my “rule #1” these days for bloggers, Tweeters, Facebookers, or anyone participating in social media and social networking. “What’s bringing on this little rant, Heather,”
We all have those special milestones in our lives that allow us to touch base with who we are, where we have been, and where we are going:
The date (for some of us) we arrived in America to begin a new life, and all the promises the “American dream” had to offer.
I wrote here about where I find time to participate in social media and social networking.
By taking a Sharpie to my calendar, and deleting most of the programs taping on my DVR, I found the time to launch a blog, speak at some conferences, and participate on Facebook and Twitter to develop my personal
While getting ready for school and work this morning, my 7-year old asked me what I did at work. She knows my office is up really high in the tallest building west of the Mississippi. She knows that I have a really cool white board that she likes to draw on. She knows I work