Sure, a lot of us are using social media, but at the same time, a lot of us are watching this train going by so quickly and trying to figure out how to get onboard. Find out how lawyers and law firms can use social media for client acquisition, knowledge management and business development. When: March 22, 2012, 12:00PM – [...]

Social media is an investment, and like any investment, the return on that investment should be measured. But we all use more than one application (mobile, web and third party apps) making it a challenge to accurately track and provide comprehensive analytics. However, as the third quarter draws to a close, there are a few excellent tools that you can [...]

Let’s face it: Facebook is almost must-have at this point, but like any ubiquitous service, there’s plenty to gripe about. Topping the list is the onslaught of notifications that can flood your phone and inbox. Comment threads in particular can spiral out of control. Here’s how to keep Facebook from turning into a comment-response firehose:

Yesterday, I came across a spot-on post by Fastcase, Online Privacy Takes Another Hit which was based on the Slate article, The Leaky Nature of Online Privacy . The Slate piece suggests that we consider being more open so that we become more trustworthy. Trustworthy? To whom? I suggest instead, that we pay more attention to tempering our online discourse [...]

Last month our webinar listeners were entertained and enlighted with guest Ari Kaplan, Esq., author of the newly released Reinventing Professional Services – Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace. Ari led a great, thought provoking discussion called Reinventing Your Law Practice In The Recovery that’s worth checking out. If you missed it, we recorded the webinar – you can listen [...]

Announcing a great new community for small and solo law practitioners. Join us! You’re familiar with our Legal Productivity blog, brought to you by the gang at Rocket Matter. We cover a range of topics from cloud computing and mobile to social media, and of course, productivity – issues that affect today’s lawyers, particularly solo practitioners and small law firms.

ELAINE: They do good things (talking about her new friends). They read. JERRY: I read. ELAINE: Books, Jerry. JERRY: [pause] Oh. This classic exchange from the fabulous Seinfeld show captures how I often feel amid the daily barrage of blogs, Twitter and Search. And this conversation took place before social media caffeinated the vaunted Age of Information. Sometimes we just [...]

I have been on Google+ for a while now. That doesn’t mean I am an expert, how could anyone be? But it does mean I can offer a few pointers for how to manage it. One thing I am not going to suggest is adding plug-ins to various browsers. While these can make Google+ easier to use and can resolve [...]

In Part Two of our new book, we’re excited to present some specific billing and business practices you can put into effect today to improve your firm’s profitability. You’ll learn:

I’ve been a Twitter user for years and have tried most of the popular desktop apps like TweetDeck and HootSuite, but keep coming back to the beautiful simplicity of Twitter’s web interface. However, Twitter.com does lack some of the functionality provided by the third party stand-alone applications. But here comes Buffer App which allows me to tweet, retweet and schedule [...]