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ABA Social Networking Policy

ABA Advisory Panel: Social Network Usage

The ABA leadership and Standing Committee on Strategic Communications are developing a social network policy to determine how (if) the ABA will utilize social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Thus far they have surveyed lawyers and law students separately and found as follows:

Among practicing lawyers:

1/3 of respondents did not have accounts on any of the 3 social networks mentioned
Among respondents who did have an account, LinkedIn was considered professional
Among respondents who had an account, Facebook was considered strictly casual
Lawyer attitudes toward social networks varied (waste of time, useful for business)
Most respondents favor an ABA group on LinkedIn, fewer favor one on Facebook
Younger respondents favored the idea of the ABA having a presence on social networks

Among law students:

they are much more engaged in social media than practitioners
nearly 90% of surveyed law students had Facebook accounts
about 75% of surveyed law students accessed Facebook daily
they tend to be more positive about social networks in general
they tend to favor ABA groups on both LinkedIn and Facebook

In a related story, the ABA Journal did not report that anyone was the least bit surprised by the findings.

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03 2010

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Foursquare’s First TV Commercial

See if you can tell who Foursquare is targeting in it’s first TV Spot

By MG Siegler on Feb 24, 2010 for TechCrunch

First Google, now Foursquare. Hot on the heels of Google’s first search-related television ad during the Super Bowl, location-based social network-as-game sensation Foursquare is gearing up to do the same thing tonight on cable network Bravo during the show Sheer Genius from 9 to 10 PM. It’s a 20-second spot in which Foursquare highlights its recently announced partnership with the network. The idea is to show users real-world locations for Bravo’s show.

Now this is hardly a piece of legal or even legal-tech news, except that Foursquare is the embodiment of the casestreaming concept I wrote about in this TechnoLawyer piece over a year ago. Oh, how the times have changed. And now that location-aware apps are all around us, including Twitter of course which got geolocation capabilities last year, we’re all that much closer to being forced into acknowledging colleagues in our vicinity whether we want to or not. I think I just felt a chill run down my spine.

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02 2010

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Sweet Twitter Visualizations (Seriously)

Below find one of 4 visualizations of Twitter influence and interaction put forth by the Harvard Business Review (HBR). Props to Steve Rubel for this post and HBR for doing all the work. In case you’re wondering what this all means …. I don’t know yet. But I do know what it’s better to have information than not, and the unexamined Twitter feed is not worth reading. So there you go.

via blogs.hbr.org

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02 2010

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Top Ten iPhone Apps for Busy Lawyers

From Reid Trautz, Attorney and friend to Practicehackers everywhere, comes this handy article, which begins:

In a few weeks I’ll be presenting 60 iPhone Apps in 60 Minutes at ABA TECHSHOW but thought I’d share a sneak peek at ten of the best apps for busy lawyers. Thanks to co-presenter Jeff Richardson of iPhoneJD for his contributions to this post. These are among the top apps to keep iPhone lawyers productive and successful.

Here is the short-version of what Reid is talking about:

AppBoxPro. Multi-function apps for iPhone including currency converter, date calculator, translator, etc. $0.99

Bento. Simple, powerful database. Looks like iTunes and is designed to be easy to use. Syncs to desktop. Templates for common tasks included as well. $4.99

Bump. Open the app on iPhone, select how much to share, gently bump with another iPhone, and viola – the information has been shared. $free

Documents to Go (Premium Ed.) Create, edit, and view Word, Excel and PowerPoint’s, plus view PDF’s and other formats. Essential for most every lawyer.

Dragon Dictation. Free, easy-to-use, and accurate voice-recognition on your iPhone. Quick alternative to typing e-mails, texts, tweets, or FB updates.

DropBox. File sharing service providing online storage and access from multiple devices. Get up to 2 gigs of storage for free and 50 gigs for just $10 per month

Google Mobile. Google’s mobile app does much more then find stuff, but the voice search feature is extra cool and easier than typing.

People. Free “White Pages” database and reverse phone # directory.

ScanR Business Center. (See also DocScanner and JotNot) Similar apps may cost less but ScanR is worth the price. Create PDFs using your iPhone camera or a picture.

Skype. You already know what this does. It works great on the iPhone as well as the Mac.

Things. Task management app for iPhone and Mac. Syncs and keeps you up to date.

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02 2010

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When Outlook isn’t enough of a memory hog …

Thanks to its new partnerships with Facebook and MySpace, as well as its existing relationship with LinkedIn, Microsoft Outlook is now set to eat up even more RAM, thus fulfillingthe Mayan prophesy that Microsoft would destroy the world in 2012. Also, you might remember back in November that Microsoft announced Outlook Social Connector, a feature in Office 2010 (beta) that Injects social network feeds directly into your sparsely-populated inbox for an even more crowded user experience.Your inbox will thank you (not).

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02 2010

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Know where your Clients are?

This study regarding social networks has it all – thrills, chills, surprises, excitement.

Alright, I threw in that last part. Let’s just say that if you’re not using social networks to spread the good word about your law firm, you’re losing ground (because your competition definitely is). Your call. Use it or lose it.

In the meantime, please enjoy these meaningful charts.