This post was written by Kevin O'Keefe: "Law firms dismissing social networking as an effective means of enhancing relationships with their clients, prospective clients, and referral sources because they don't these folks use online social networks ought to think again.

Social networking use (LinkedIn and Facebook) among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled--from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010 pursuant to a survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project..."

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Source: Real Lawyers Have Blogs, 31 August 2010. Copyright © 2010, LexBlog, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Ernest Svenson: "In our buzzword-driven world the phrase "social media" ranks high, at least these days. Veteran attorneys want to know why the hell they should care about social media. Younger attorneys understand Facebook and Twitter, but they don't really see how social media can help them learn to practice law.

Here's how:

New lawyers need mentoring. Experienced lawyers can provide that mentoring, and social media is a good way to do it. I shall now give an example of this in action..."

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Source: Ernie the Attorney, 19 August 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by John Gregory: "A California town has decided not to have a Facebook page after being advised by its lawyer of the legal risks.

The ABA Journal has the story..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 26 August 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw.

Podcast description from the site: "In the recent case of State v.Huggett, failure to preserve voicemail data resulted in the dismissal of a second degree murder charge. On this edition of The ESI Report, host Gina Jytyla, Managing Staff Attorney in the Legal Technologies division at Kroll Ontrack, welcomes Circuit Court Judge James Babbitt from Barron County, Wisconsin who authored the original opinion in the case and Jason Paroff, Senior Director of Computer Forensics for Kroll Ontrack, to discuss the duty to preserve electronic data  and exculpatory evidence such as text messages, voicemail and social media. In the Bits & Bytes Legal Analysis segment, Kroll Ontrack Legal Correspondent Kelly Kubacki explores the recent decision of Crispin v. Audigier, Inc. regarding the discoverability of information contained on social networking sites.

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Source: Legal Talk Network, 24 August 2010. © 2010 · Legal Talk Network. Reproduced with permission of Scott R. Hess.

In the news: "Duane Morris' Alan Klein, John Lyons, and Andrew Sperl examine a federal ruling that appears to offer the first in-depth analysis of the effect of many social networking sites' "privacy settings" and the issue of whether federal privacy laws protect data from electronic discovery.

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Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 25 August 2010. Copyright 2009.  ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>.

This post was written by Michelle Golden:  "There's a great blog post I saw today that happens to refer to my past piece, "'What's the ROI of Social Media?' is the Wrong Question..."

Check out Tom Pick's great approach to the The Social Media ROI Debate found on his blog Webbiquity and on Social Media Today. (I really enjoy following them on Facebook!)"

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Source: Golden Practices Blog, 23 August 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Ernest Svenson: "In our buzzword-driven world the phrase "social media" ranks high, at least these days. Veteran attorneys want to know why the hell they should care about social media. Younger attorneys understand Facebook and Twitter, but they don't really see how social media can help them learn to practice law.

Here's how:

New lawyers need mentoring. Experienced lawyers can provide that mentoring, and social media is a good way to do it. I shall now give an example of this in action..."

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Source: Ernie the Attorney, 19 August 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

This is a guest post by Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk: "Many businesses have been reluctant to start using social media, and for good reason. While it can be a powerful marketing medium, it also comes with a lot of legitimate concerns. Accountants and attorneys are especially leery of it, since they have even more regulations on their businesses than most. But if you establish a comprehensive plan up front, you too can be reaping the rewards of jumping on the social media marketing train..."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 19 August 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.

Podcast description from the site: "The conventional wisdom has long been that your website, or perhaps your blog, should be at the core of your web presence. Today, your Internet presence is likely to consist of LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts, and a variety of other places people can find you. Is this expansion of "presence" changing the common wisdom and bringing us to what's been called the "Siteless Web"? In this episode, co-hosts Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell discuss the changing Internet environment, whether a website really matters anymore, and how to manage your multi-faceted presence on the Internet.  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.

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Source: Legal Talk Network, 17 August 2010. © 2010 · Legal Talk Network. Reproduced with permission of Scott R. Hess.

This post was written by Tara Calisham: "I have a terrible time following Twitter. There are lots of people who have interesting Tweets, but I don't like to hang around and watch the stream all day. I can add list activity to Listimonkey but what seems to me to be the ideal solution is still not available. (The ideal solution is to have Twitter lists available as RSS feeds. TWITTER ARE YOU LISTENING!? ARGH!) Ahem. The fact remains that I worry about missing things.

The Web site Chirrps (http://chirrps.com/) offers one potential solution -- a directory of popular tweets. The front page has the latest popular tweets and popular tweets in the news category. But there are many other categories available. I looked at the most popular tweets in tech.

Each listing shows the original tweet, an excerpt from the linked article if appropriate, and the date and time tweeted as well as the number of times the item was retweeted.

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Source: Research Buzz, 17 August 2010. © 2006-2010 ResearchBuzz, reproduced with permission of the author.