Is it time to wake up to what Twitter has become?
Continue Reading Has Twitter become a “neighborhood with broken windows”?
Don’t be a lurker. 6 Things to Do BEFORE Attending a Conference
We all attend professional conferences. Some are close-knit groups, such as the Legal Marketing Association’s Annual Conference; others will have 10s of thousands in attendance, and take over a whole city (ACC Annual Meeting, CES, NRF’s Big Show).
Sometimes we will know no one attending, other times hundreds due to our level of involvement in the organization.
No matter how many people you know or don’t know, speaker or not, first time attendee or not, you need to prepare to maximize the time you will be there, and out of the office.
I start to prepare for a conference approximately two weeks or so before my departure. When I say I do these things, I really do them, and I coach others to do so as well for one reason: They work.
Continue Reading Don’t be a lurker. 6 Things to Do BEFORE Attending a Conference
Glad to see sexism is alive and well in law firms. Not.
Charlotte Proudman, you are my new hero. Good for you for calling out the Big Law partner who thought “complimenting” you on your photo was a great way to begin a conversation:
https://twitter.com/CRProudman/status/640934811381706752
Baby Boomers take note. Millennial women will not put up with comments like this. They have been raised to believe that
Gen Y, Meet Milbank.
Nothing like an Above the Law post to get the LME going.
Today’s late-breaking post, Biglaw Firm Holds Associates To Strict Social Media Policy, is brought to you by the good folks at Milbank.
Where to begin? Where to begin?
A four page memo that can
You can’t untweet that tweet: Lessons for my teen, Adam Levine and us all
A colleague posted a link to Teenagers: Why You Should Care About Your Digital Footprint that I shared with my teen who just got her Facebook account, and the parents of other teens.
It’s good reading, and a good reminder, for us all.
The main lessons:
- Information travels fast and is often taken out of
Which came first? The content or the promotion, or is it the engagement?
These are a few of our favorite blogs: Marketing & Social Media
We’re almost done. Jonathan Fitzgarrald (Bad for the Brand) and I have pulled together a collection of our favorite blogs that help us do our jobs better. So far, we have prepared for you a collection of the legal press, the legal industry , and general business and management blogs we follow.
Facebook’s IPO might have fizzled, but it’s not time to delete your page
All the chat these days around the water cooler is about how the LA Kings are heading to the Stanley Cup finals (hey, I’m in Los Angeles). Oh, and how the Facebook IPO has fizzled.
A lot of people want to point to the poor performance of the IPO launch to say, “See, this
New Year’s Resolution #2: Learn how this social media thingie works
I saw a great headline the other day: Dear Congress, It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works.
I remember fondly the days when we were all tickled pink by our elected officials’ struggle to understand how the internet works. Whether it was George W. Bush referring to “the internets” or
Steve Jobs – the Man Who Changed the World
Steve Jobs died yesterday. I never met the man, but his impact on my life, and yours, has been monumental. Steve Jobs changed the world, like Thomas Edison. While Edison illuminated the world with electricity invented by someone else, Jobs connected it with the Internet created by someone else. The iPhone is one