The LinkedIn Lawyer

Worcester County Bar Association Presents The LinkedIn Lawyer

Published on 2010-04-09 10:54:00

The SlideShare Presentation from the event below. Get more social media seminars for lawyers on DVD at http://www.legalsocialmedia.blogspot.comWorcester County Bar Association Presents The LinkedIn LawyerView more presentations from David Barrett.

As Lawyers and Law Firms on Facebook Explode, Facebook Legal Networking Groups Mushroom

Published on 2009-11-29 08:24:00

If you don't believe "the hype" about the huge number of lawyers and law firms setting up profiles on the mega-popular social networking website Facebook, try a search on Facebook yourself (see above) using the terms "law firm" or "law office" or "attorney" and you can see this phenomenon for yourself. The challenge moving forward for these law firms, is going beyond "establishing a presence" (i.e. merely setting up a profile and/or firm fan page) to "effectively" utilizing this new media techno

This Week's "Top Tweets" the Black Friday Edition

Published on 2009-11-27 18:35:00

Twitter is a free and easy-to-use "micro-blogging" site that allows you to send and receive short updates from multiple users. David Barrett, The LinkedIn Lawyer is "Twittering" -- follow me here -- and keep up to date with news about Web 2.0 social media and the legal profession, with a particular focus on LinkedIn.Here are the "Top Tweets" from the last week (partially as tracked with Tweetburner).David A. Barrett's Recent Most Popular Twitter Messages"Top Tweets"Facebook Business Pages for La

Legal Social Media This Week - Black Friday Episode

Published on 2009-11-27 15:05:00

Social Groups and the Attorney / Client Relationship

Published on 2009-11-24 00:45:00

Stephen Fairley and I were speaking about the great increase recently in lawyers and law firms who have established some kind of presence on Facebook. As the number of Facebook users has exploded (now Canada's favorite website) the number of lawyers and law firms with some kind of presence on Facebook has increased as well. Many solos and small firms handle their own social media marketing campaigns, and lawyers and law firms have developed a variety of approaches on Facebook to include fan pa

Lawyer Small Talk on Facebook is Published News

Published on 2009-11-23 13:31:00

Yesterday's LA Family Court Examiner published a story called "What Lawyers Really Think of Judges, Pro Per Litigants, and Their Jobs" which basically republished Facebook communications made by a number of lawyers as they had idle time in the work day. Whether one line of text about how the author got the printout of the Facebook communications is actually an article or whether this is an adequate practice of journalism may be interesting issues, but LAWYERS focus on the forest, not the trees

Facebook Business Pages for Lawyers

Published on 2009-11-23 11:16:00

Facebook Fan pages (aka "Business Pages") are one of the most successful ways lawyers and law firms can establish a presence on Facebook. Although Facebook has modified its Terms of Service to allow for "(non-)personal use" a law firm profile set up as a Facebook personal profile is awkward for a few reasons. First, such use may be construed as a violation of the terms of service and without warning Facebook could shut down all of these accounts, and all the friends and work put into building s

The Digg Widget

Published on 2009-10-15 23:06:00

Social Media Planning for Lawyers

Published on 2009-07-08 15:52:00

I was pleased to see my Facebook friend Francis Flynn Thorsen's Slideshare presentation (proud to be on page 11) on "Social Media Business Planning and Time Blocking."Although this presentation was developed with real estate professionals in mind, the message for busy lawyers is the same - if you are to achieve ambitious goals with social media you will need an organized and time saving approach.I do an entire webinar about social media systems and balancing social media and practicing law. Rea

A Twitter Interview with LinkedIn Lawyer David Barrett

Published on 2009-06-17 09:53:00

Many thanks to Lance Godard of The Godard Group for including me as the 22nd interviewee in his creative Twitter interview series, "22 Tweets - Real Time Twitter Interviews with Lawyers Who Tweet."Godard uses a series of questions posed via Twitter and a threaded conversation hashtag (#22twts) to allow his subjects to tell the story of their law practice. You can click here for the full interview with LinkedIn Lawyer David Barrett.Godard includes particular questions about law practice, and more