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 [...]

Calling law students to contribute to this blog for the following reasons: 1 – No one knows everything about social media.  No one is an “expert”.  Especially me. 2 – The law students of my generation, like those who came before them, are amazing and profound people who have a lot to contribute to the [...]

Follow me – @Rex7 Lawyer Blogging Tip: When Being the Number 1 Blog in Your Niche is Not Enough http://tinyurl.com/9vdwp RT @18percentgrey: @Rex7 as a photographer, fact is lawyers dislike photoshoots, use stock photography, why is this bad? [it's weak sauce] RT @kevinokeefe: Law firms use good looking models on their websites, not pics of [...]

Tired of a dozen emails clogging up your email client all saying: “out to lunch”?  Sifting through these can be a waste of your precious time.  Maybe try Yammer. Many of my readers and blog subscribers are trying to introduce social media to their enterprises and law firms.  I often get asked about strategies for [...]

10 Tips for Blogs and Twitter 1. Thou shall not steal.  Violating this rule while using social media is the fastest way to lose your creditability and authority online. 2.  Copying and pasting someone’s blog post onto your blog then adding one or two comments is not a blog post.  This is called a comment.  [...]

Lawyer Blogging Tip: How to Upgrade to WordPress 2.7 Safely and Ensure Compatibility http://tinyurl.com/9qvnlz RT @annecollier: New blog post: Missouri’s new cyberharassment law http://adjix.com/hs5f ABAJournal Shorty Awards finals – http://adjix.com/2ueq calling all those following me & lawyers to vote for ABAjournal in #news! Martindale-Hubbell doesn’t get it – http://adjix.com/hqq4 warm up the fail whale train! [...]

There have been many warnings for lawyers engaging in social media – most of the hype resembles what we heard when email first came out. (This post is no no way meant to fuel these fires; Lawyers should be engaging in social media) However, we hear few, if any, warnings about lawyer ethics. Lawyers do [...]

Follow me – @Rex7 Lawyer Blogging Tip: If Marilyn Monroe was a Blogger What Would She Do? http://tinyurl.com/7ttd5d # Constant Connection Affecting your Offline Relationships? – http://bit.ly/hD2z # A Tech-Lawyer: Innovation of Lawyer’s Practice Skill and Service Mode in the Process of Global Economy Integration – http://bit.ly/pSUL # Burger King Uses Twitter to Send Cease [...]

My first post after final exams is sort of a cheat.  But it’s good info.  Also, I’m going to try to keep all future posts short because, as most of you know, I first started blogging as a mircoblogger on Twitter – follow me! Here’s a copy of an email I received regarding the American [...]

The law student experiment is off to a lightning speed start. The response has been overwhelming. I have met many generous people in a very short time – the power of social media!! Here’s an incomplete “Thank You” list in no particular order (will be updated): Brandon Prebynski – for more help than anyone can [...]