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This post was written by Kevin O'Keefe: "Bill Pollak, the CEO of American Lawyer Media (ALM), the leading provider of current legal news through national and regional publications, has an interesting piece this week in BtoB Media Business on why media leaders need to enter the social media waters.

Pollak explains he's not blogging, Tweeting, and using Facebook because he has nothing do. He often finds "social media to be tedious and frustrating." Pollak actively participates in social media because he's "convinced that these tools will be the future of b-to-b media."

Following Bill as a media company leader, one thing I've learned is that you lead by example. And it's no different with social media per Bill...

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Source: Real Lawyers Have Blogs, 8 March 2010. © 2010, LexBlog, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Connie Crosby: "CaseStudiesOnline.com is a new web site with hundreds of social media marketing case studies, all fully indexed and searchable. The site was created by Tod Maffin, a well-known strategist, consultant, speaker and thought leader based in Vancouver. The site is currently in beta with more case studies being added each day. Maffin also plans on interviewing both thought-leaders in social media marketing and the people in the trenches who are putting these tools into action.

Here's a short video by Maffin showing how CaseStudiesOnline.com works:

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This post was written by Randall Ryder: "Attorneys are making more and more use of social media as part of their marketing campaign. Sam has been very successful with his social media campaign and other entrepreneurial attorneys should follow his blueprint. With that blueprint in mind, put in extra effort to maximize your results."

Topics discussed include legal blogs, Twitter and strategizing.

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 10 March 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.

This post was written by Agnese Caruso: "This is definitely a bargain for firms and individuals using Twitter.

Chris Pirillo's new e-book 140 Twitter Tips, a 14-page PDF, offers useful and practical hints for all types of Twitter users. Tips include:...

The best part: the e-book costs only $1.40.

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Source: Slaw.ca, 9 March 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw.

This post was written by John Jantsch: "As a marketing tool the Twitterverse gets so much more useful when you can filter out all the noise and drill down to people and communities that might very much want to know what you've got to offer.

...In this week's post for AMEX OPENForum I explain 7 Insanely Useful Ways to Search Twitter that focus much more on who's saying it. For some this is a much more interesting way to look at doing business on Twitter..."

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Source: Duct Tape Marketing, 3 March 2010. © 2003-2010 Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing, reproduced with permission of the author.

Podcast description form the site: "Hardly a day goes by without lawyers hearing that they need to be diving into social media. And many are already there - on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other platforms. Google stumbled on privacy on its launch of its new social media platform, Buzz. The privacy and security concerns in social media are very real. In this episode, co-hosts Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell take a practical look at what you must understand to take control of your security and privacy, from basic account settings to smart approaches to social media common sense. After you listen, be sure to check out Tom & Dennis' co-blog and book by the same name, The Lawyers Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies.

Special thanks to our sponsor, Bill4Time.

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Related Podcasts

• October 7, 2009 -- Bulls and Bears: Lawyers Using Social Media
• December 22, 2009 -- Looking Back: Legal Technology in 2009
• August 31, 2009 -- Sea of Possibility: New "Über Search Tools & Sneak Preview of "Social Media: Risks & Rewards"
• August 24, 2009 -- Online Reputation Management
• September 3, 2008 -- Social Networking: Not Just for Teens

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Source: Legal Talk Network, 3 March 2010

This post was written by Leora Maccabee: "Last week I joined Sam Glover of Lawyerist and Blois Olson of Tunheim Partners to teach a seminar on websites, online marketing and social media to 100+ lawyers in the process of hanging out their own shingles as part of a day-long "How to How to Start & Build a Successful Law Firm" CLE.

In preparation for the course (and because it's fun) I reached out to my followers on Twitter to get some advice for these daring lawyers about to start their own firm."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 2 March 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.

From the e-newsletter: "Social networking, via sites like Facebook and Twitter, is the current big thing. Indeed, the popularity of such sites has caused nouns like the word "friend" to become verbs in the new social networking vocabulary. But is all well and good in the social networking universe?"

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Source: FindLaw's Tools of the Trade: Legal Technology News. February 2010 Copyright © 2010 FindLaw, a Thomson Business. Subscribe <http://newsletters.findlaw.com/>

This post was written by Dan Pinnington: "The ABA Legal Technology Resource Center blog posted a warning this morning that all of us should pay heed to: Be Careful! Twitter Phishing Catches Lawyers, Too...

In the case of these recent Twitter phishing attempts, the usurper then uses the innocent individual's Twitter account to send out spam, malware, and more phishing attempts via Twitter's "direct message" (DM) feature...

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Source: Slaw.ca, 1 March 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw

This article was written by Richard Baum: "A colleague I just met at work has invited me to be their friend on Facebook. I don't want to offend them, but nor do I want to share my candid photos and lousy Scrabble scores with someone I hardly know.

Can I ignore their invite?

"Can I be your friend?" might work as an ice-breaker among small children, but it's not a question you hear often between adults, at least not outside of Las Vegas.

Friendship, it is generally understood, is a relationship that evolves through shared interests, common experiences and a primeval need to share your neighbor's power tools.

Yet for many people, Facebook permits a return to the simplicity of the schoolyard.

Rather than inviting someone to be our Facebook friend only after we've become friends in the real world, many of us are using Facebook as a short-cut around all that time-consuming relationship building..."

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Source: Reuters, 22 February 2010. Hat Tip to Tom Mighell. Internet Legal Research Weekly. Volume 11, Issue 7. 28 February 2010. Subscribe <http://lists.inter-alia.net/mailman/listinfo/inter-alia>.