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Social Media for Lawyers

6 months of silence

July 22, 2010

Image via Wikipedia I have not written a blog post in this blog for 180 days. That’s a very long time not to write, and as the days go by, my ‘fear’ of going back to writing has grown. There are many excuses I can use as to why I have been so silent, reasons [...]

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All Required Ingrediants to Set Up Your Social Media/Web 2.0 Strategy

January 24, 2010

Image by thekenyeung via Flickr how to build you perfect ‘customer strategy’ mix In his past blog posts, Jeremiah Owyang has started building a base-line for what an excellent company social media strategy should be build and based on. The first rule is to generate a ‘social media strategy’ and not a ‘facebook strategy’ or [...]

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Social networks as Hardware

January 18, 2010

Image by bre pettis via Flickr Paul Confer, a close colleague of mine, can tell you the entire history of computers and the net on it’s tiniest detail. If you want to host a Trivia game with the rarest, most cool details of the history of hardware and software – he’s your guy. In one [...]

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WordCamp NYC 2009 – Using WordPress as Library Catalogs

November 14, 2009

Image via CrunchBase I am live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  please excuse any typos or less polished text. Speaker: Casey Blisson “wordpress is everything that libraries are not” Blisson opens.  The cost of library software is really high (Endeca is mentioned). WordPress is easy to use, easy to install, easy extend – plugins is an [...]

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WordCamp NYC 2009 – Using WordPress as Research tool

November 14, 2009

Image via Wikipedia I am live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  please excuse any typos or less polished text. Speaker Jeremy Boggs Information management: how do we aggregate information and make sense of it? Back in the old days we had notes. now we have that and delcious, twitter, other aggregators. “if you are using all [...]

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Twitter is just pointless babble and Facebook ruins your friendships – our lives reflected in Social Media

August 31, 2009

Image via CrunchBase To Continue the discussion and Ideas that developed in my post from 2 days ago about ‘Facebook as the Freindship killer app’, I just read Danah Boyd’s post about Twitter as an aggregator of ‘pointless babble’. The marvelous Boyd makes the point that sites such as Twitter and Facebook are our online [...]

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Social Media: the friendship killer app

August 30, 2009

Image by Intersection Consulting via Flickr @econwriter5 has shared a great article today on Twitter: WSJ‘s ‘How Facebook Can Ruin Your Friendships’. This article has been on my mind all day. Media Panics have been a natural part of Media and Culture evolution: Waltz will curropt the youth, Radio will degregade our values, TV will [...]

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4 things to learn from Jeremiah Owyang

August 27, 2009

Image by thekenyeung via Flickr Jeremiah Owyang, a leading Forrester analyst who has build himself a solid name in the Social Media world, is leaving Forrester to focus on a business of his own. In ‘the year of Social Media’ where social media value is widely recognized and everyone is a Social Media enthusiast, building [...]

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Rules of Twitter Following

July 22, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Looking for interesting posts around Twitter Policies and Guidelines in preparation for Connected Social Media Policy week, I ran into this interesting guidelines around the rules of following are posted on http://restaurantcoachingsolutions.com/rcs-university/rcs-social-media-policy-twitter/ By @JeffreySummers. [Update: these are suggested rules for not following someone]. The suggested rules include: do not have a website. [...]

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Community – from start up, to borg; from an idea to embedded behavior

July 20, 2009

It’s so sad when your local neighborhood café becomes a massive international chain. The Barista that used to be the owner as well as waiter, the face of the café, who knew your name and exactly how you like your espresso, is now gone, sitting behind a desk somewhere or vacating on some sandy beach. [...]

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