Twitter is a great platform for sharing your thoughts, links to useful information and your own writing. It facilitates the opportunity to create and nurture relationships across a broad spectrum. It’s also a terrific tool for monitoring targeted practice areas in the legal profession and gaining valuable insight. Follow It starts with who you choose to follow. If you’re a [...]

Whether you’re new to Twitter or want to expand your reach and engagement in the legal community, there are tools, practices and lists to help you grow your presence into a more meaningful and rewarding experience. Here are a few of the top resources and practices to help you find lawyers and legal professionals to follow. Tools Wefollow – Enter [...]

We’re all about productivity, which makes us huge fans of Buffer, the app that helps us manage our Twitter activity. The only drawback is the lack of an iPhone app, which makes sense since it’s designed to beautifully integrate with the Twitter web interface and is not a third party stand alone application. Buffer does however, offer a mobile solution [...]

Twitter is an engagement platform. We build up followers, and gain a few friends. But it also serves as a forum for providing content. You want to play your part and in the process establish yourself as a meaningful contributor to the space. This is especially true for companies, entrepreneurs, law firms and organizations. Here are a few practices that I’ve [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]