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If your law firm has a website, it probably also has an “About” page or a “Firm Overview” page. With the increasing popularity of social media, you may have similar pages sprinkled around the web: a LinkedIn Company Profile, a Facebook Business Page, a Google+ page, etc. Just like individual lawyer bio pages, these “About” [...]

Hosts Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell are exploring a new social media outlet called Vine where users create videos, constricted to six-seconds in length. This inspired the discussion of nourishing creativity with a length constraint. Twitter limits users to 140 characters, Instagram allows only one photo per post, and Snapchat limits users to sending a [...]

Years after Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn debuted, social media remains a hot topic of discussion for lawyers and legal professionals.  How should it be used? Which sites are best? How do you get started–or should you get started at all? We’re happy to welcome this guest post from Victoria Santoro exploring the value of social [...]

A conference used to be something you’d simply sign up for, get a few good tips out of and then soon forget about. This is a way of the past. With the introduction of social media, conferences happen online almost as much as they do offline. Most conferences encourage the use of Twitter hashtags and [...]

Dennis Kennedy wrote about LinkedIn Endorsements in November and since then, Endorsements have really taken off. According to LinkedIn in this infographic, over one billion endorsements have already been given on LinkedIn. You may have noticed the prominent blue box that appears when you view a connection’s profile, asking you to endorse that connection for [...]

Consumers today are constantly connected and expect the same from businesses. Social media can provide that connection by creating a direct stream of communication between clients and firms. Used appropriately, social media can expand business opportunities, garner strong relationships with clients and is even an opportunity to give your firm its own unique personality. Learn [...]

The impulse to rely on well-established security practices like installing anti-virus software and operating system updates is certainly understandable.  Who wants to invest time, effort, or money in new security approaches which rarely increase efficiency or add measurable value to clients?  Unfortunately, as the Internet has evolved and so many aspects of our daily lives [...]

I’ve been doing some research in connection with an upcoming technology column I’ve written for the ABA Journal. The topic is backing up your social media accounts and it should appear in a month or two. This topic is an important one for lawyers, and not just so you can learn how you can back [...]

Social media has significantly adapted the way we communicate. For this reason, it is increasingly important for your law firm to not only have a social media presence, but to actually use it. One beneficial yet simple way to encourage two-way communication on Twitter is through the Follow Friday hashtag (#FF). Follow Friday is a [...]