Social media! Social media! Social media! (to be read in a monster truck rally commercial announcer voice a la Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!) You have to have it. It needs to be plastered all over your website and blog. You have to interact and join every possible service. It’s the most important thing to do because that’s the way [...]
A couple of days ago I received an email encouraging me to cheat. It was from Twitter. Here is the pertinent part of the message: Twitter was offering two methods of advertising. Neither involved any sort of ad placement or banner placement. Rather they offered: Promoted Accounts Promoted Tweets Why is this cheating? Because, whether you realize it or [...]
Over the weekend, Scott Greenfield wrote about the trend in social media that one can be a mentor or be mentored via social media: There’s harm being done here, and that’s why it’s necessary to point this out. The lawyer who has tried ten cases is being “mentored” by the twitter lawyer who has never [...]
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 [...]
Earlier this year, the Web Ecology Project (WEP, an interdisciplinary research group focusing on using large scale data mining to analyze the system-wide flows of culture and community online) ran an interesting experiment on Twitter. The picked a specific networked group of 500 people who all had similar interests in a topic. Here is a [...]
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 [...]
Why I’m Quitting Twitter (and you should to) was the title of a recent discussion on the Legal Blogging Group on Linkedin. I dip in on occasion to see what’s going on. Usually it’s a mess of rah-rah Web 2.0/SEO/social media marketing talk. But there is substantive discussion on occasion and a large number of [...]
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 [...]
Keith writes and speaks on Professional Development, Law, Technology, and Net Culture. Alabama lawyer. Interests: running, food, martial arts, Classics.
