So, you are about to start (or already started) your summer job.  Now what?  What should you do with your impressive online presence that you’ve been cultivating and improving on during the school year?
Using Social Media to Help You this Summer
Proficiency in the realm of social media is not common.  A lot of people don’t [...]

Hilton Chicago | April 2-4, 2009

Highlights for ABA TECHSHOW 2009 Next Week!
We promise you will thoroughly enjoy this year’s event, which is right around the corner. Below are a few highlights we would like to share with you to help you plan your stay in Chicago and ensure you have the best ABA TECHSHOW [...]

Lawyer Blogging Tip: Rise Of The Blogging Service Industry http://poprl.com/kVZ
The Essential Little Book of Great Lawyering and the Discovery Process http://poprl.com/ioL
Lawyer Blogging Tip: 4 Pretty Pictures to Illustrate Impact of Email Newsletters on Traffic .. http://poprl.com/iWD
President Obama has released his March Madness bracket today: http://tinyurl.com/cfp95o
Bernie Madoff: A Look Inside the Scandal http://poprl.com/hHg
Nielsen: Twitter’s growing really, [...]

Chris Winfield, along with Kevin O’Keefe & Matthew Homann, did a presentation at LegalTech on a panel called “What is Twitter and How Can I Use It?”.  This session was aimed at informing lawyers (and people in the legal profession) on how they could effectively use Twitter.  Here was thier PowerPoint presentation:
Twitter For Lawyers & [...]

Lawyer Blogging Tip: Five Marketing Mistakes to Avoid http://poprl.com/NGc
Welcome to the Hive Mind; Learn How to Search Twitter http://poprl.com/NGQ
Obama’s team lends an ear to the Valley kids http://poprl.com/N89
Law School 2.0: Legal Education for a Digital Age – http://bit.ly/yAOy3
Search box starts popping up on Twitter http://poprl.com/N1U
Finally a Firefox plugin tht copies text w/ correct citations, [...]

David Thomson’s new book about the future of law school is an interesting read. The book is clearly written for his fellow professors, but that did not inhibit my experience at all. Overall it is a relatively quick read. It explores several interesting topics and offers a look at how Thomson has [...]

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How Law Schools are Using Twitter – http://bit.ly/pkPj3
@eschaeff: @blawgreview Don’t forget @Rex7. And others. Remember: St. Louis = “Blawg City, USA” http://tinyurl.com/dghpnu #
How Law Schools are Using Twitter http://tinyurl.com/d283ms
And the Web TV wars go on, and on, and on http://poprl.com/K0Y
Top Legal Blogs – http://tinyurl.com/c9fvho (Social Media Law Student #59, and [...]

On February 17, 2008 Bruce Carton, Editor of Securities Docket, and Doug Cornelius, Chief Compliance Officer of Beacon Capital Partners, sponsored a webcast that discussed how securities and compliance counsel and professionals can use web 2.0 to promote, market, and network themselves, their practices and their firms as never before.
In the presentation, Doug and Bruce [...]

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Facebook passes 175 million users http://poprl.com/IWS
What’s the best new productivity tool you’ve adopted in past year? http://poprl.com/IWC
Pew analyzes the Twitterati, or not http://poprl.com/IPu
Being creative after a layoff http://poprl.com/IP8
What Career Service Office Advisors Should be Telling Students About Social Media [Part 2/2] – http://bit.ly/bEhm2
What Career Service Office Advisors Should be Telling [...]

This is the second of two posts about “What Career Service Office Advisors Should be Telling Students About Social Media.”  The first post introduced you to the idea that social media is something career service offices should be advising students to participate in.  It also discussed how to use LinkedIn as a law student, and [...]