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Should Lawyers “Friend” Consumer Clients?

Social media is here to stay, and forward-thinking lawyers are taking advantage of the networking opportunities it offers. But what about when your consumer client seeks you out to connect on social media? Should you accept connection requests ...

Matt Spiegel - August 1, 2013
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Your Law Practice and the Visual Web

It's pretty clear that the web is going visual. As Google Chairman Eric Schmidt puts it, “The content of the Internet is video.” Google is adding new ways to explore images online. Even local business listing results are becoming more ...

Gyi Tsakalakis - June 24, 2013
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Should Lawyers Connect with Competitors on LinkedIn?

Despite LinkedIn's reputation as the social networking site for professionals, there are still skeptics who question its value. Most of the skepticism among lawyers arises from questions of confidentiality. That's natural. Holding information ...

Merrilyn Astin Tarlton - May 15, 2013
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Law Firm Marketing Advice from Famous Jacksons

With the Third Annual Super Marketing Conference in Boston mere weeks away, LOMAP's Jared Correia has lawyer marketing on the brain. The day-long conference is live at Suffolk University School of Law—and via webcast—May 16, but today the ...

Jared Correia - May 3, 2013
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Searching Social Media

Social media. A familiar topic for me, and a staple now at ABA TECHSHOW. I'd be remiss if I didn't say I walked into the session, "Social Media as Information Gathering Tool," a skeptic last week. Obviously, social media is an information ...

Gwynne Monahan - April 15, 2013
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999 Things Lawyers Should Know About Marketing

Just kidding with the 999—though we could easily report on hundreds of ideas exchanged at the Legal Marketing Association Annual Conference this week in Las Vegas. More than 1,300 legal marketing professionals gathered there to share secrets and ...

Mark Beese - April 12, 2013
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Word of Mouth, Ratings and Reviews

Your clients have been talking about you since well before Al ... I mean Sir Tim ... brought us the global tubes. But the Internet continues to change the way those conversations spread. Admittedly, the process that people use to choose toasters ...

Gyi Tsakalakis - March 25, 2013
Bag ’Em and Tag ’Em: The Hashtagger’s Guide to the Galaxy

After much shameless begging, unopened gift bottles of wine and several used game certificates for Dave and Buster’s, I have finally succumbed to writing a monthly column for Attorney at Work, which will replace the random collection of posts I ...

Jared Correia - March 13, 2013
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Online Commentary: The Good, the Spam and the Ugly

On the one hand, the social Internet has become perhaps the most revolutionary communications tool in human history. On the other, it has also been called "a shallow and unreliable electronic repository of dirty pictures, inaccurate rumors, bad ...

Gyi Tsakalakis - February 25, 2013
Outfoxing Google Updates

It's a simple fact that being organically ranked number one on Google is still one of the most effective ways to drive traffic to your website. Even the savviest marketers may be unaware, though, that regular algorithm updates by the good folks ...

Brian Burt - February 18, 2013
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