Don’t say nice things about everyone. Don’t re-tweet that someone re-tweeted you. Don’t thank people for following. Don’t automatically follow people back. When someone follows you and they are obviously a hack – tell them to go away. Tell people to get off your website. Don’t be inviting. Point out hypocrisy and foolishness. Intimidate [...]
Much ado has been made about the Circles feature on Google Plus. People have been praising it as one of the true innovations and differentiators between it and Facebook, etc. Mostly because it recognizes that people’s connections to others have varying levels of strength and relevance dependent on what is being communicated. It’s where Metcalfe’s Law was wrong and Henry David Thoreau was [...]
Over at the Legal Skills Prof Blog, there was mention of a Law Review article entitled The Blurred Boundaries of Social Networking in the Legal Field: Just ‘Face’ It. The article provides a broad overview on ethics and the use of social media by law students, law schools, practioners, and judges. It’s a long and [...]
I previously wrote about the gamification of social media services in a piece entitled: You’re Being Played By Twitter. The article touched on the use of engagement statistics and feedback loops in order to draw users deeper into the services provided. Essentially, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc all manipulate the egos of users in order to [...]
When you search, do you get the same results as someone 5 blocks away? 5 miles? 500 miles? Do you filter your Facebook feed or does it do it for you…based on your friends political orientations? Be sure to avoid group-think. Develop a Red Team that will challenge your ideas. Expose yourself to differing, even offensive opinions. [...]
5/17/11 Update: Amended complaint now available. Older updates at bottom of post. In a follow up to my post, How Young Lawyers Should Conduct Themselves Online?, here we have how young lawyers should not conduct themselves online. In case you missed it, about a month ago a young lawyer by the name of Joseph Rakofsky, [...]
As more people use social media for a variety of reasons, it only follows that data and information from social media sites are going to become a necessary component of litigation. The question is: how to properly obtain this information? Fortunately, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has already done that work for you with a Freedom of Information Act [...]
There doesn’t seem to be much available out there about Social Media (SM) from a gamification perspective that is accessible to regular users as opposed to designers or math-types. Certainly not for the legal crowd. Many in the online legal world are generally unaware of the concept and how it applies to the functioning of Social [...]
Yet another good find over at Internet Cases. I think it’s going to officially be added to my RSS Reader. Excerpt below: Mother sought appellate review of the lower court’s order that awarded primary physical custody of her daughter to the child’s father. The mother argued, among other things, that the court improperly considered Facebook photos showing [...]
Via Internet Cases: “In Purvis v. Commissioner of Social Sec., 2011 WL 741234 (D.N.J., Feb. 23, 2011), the question before federal judge Susan Davis Wigenton was whether the plaintiff had been wrongfully denied Social Security benefits. Ultimately the judge determined that the question of whether plaintiff’s asthma made her disabled needed to go back to [...]
Keith writes and speaks on Professional Development, Law, Technology, and Net Culture. Alabama lawyer. Interests: running, food, martial arts, Classics.
