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Blog Live during Legal Conferences: Create Real-time Excitement

Many lawyers blog.  But what about live blogging while at a conference?
One of the most exciting conferences for interactive (technology) as well as film and music is going on right now in Austin:  SXSW .  Social Media Today’s Lee Oden, blogging live from SXSW, posted some great tips for effective live blogging while at SXSW.
Lawyers [...]

Social Media Abroad–Reaching Clients Globally

Filed under: Branding & Marketing, Client Development & Rainmaking, Social Media — Janet Moore, March 13, 2010

By now, many lawyers are using (or considering using) social media sources like Facebook and Twitter.  In her helpful article “Social Media 101” for a recent issue of the Texas Bar Journal, lawyer coach Debra Bruce sets forth the pros and cons of various professionally-focused networking sites for specifically for lawyers like Legal OnRamp, Martindale-Hubbell [...]

How lawyers can become popular sources for reporters–domestic and foreign

Filed under: Branding & Marketing, Communicate across Cultures, General, Social Media — Janet Moore, March 10, 2010

Want to become a popular source for the press?   Want to work well with the foreign press? Paramjit Mahli of the SCG Legal PR Network has some great tips for lawyers on both:
Becoming a popular press source:
http://www.profitingwithpublicrelations.com/2010/01/becoming-a-goto-source-for-the-press.html
Working well with the foreign press:
http://www.profitingwithpublicrelations.com/2010/01/draft.html
To the latter post I commented that  knowing how to communicate with reporters from [...]

Social Media Optimization: Eleven Free Tools

Filed under: Social Media — Janet Moore,

For lawyers who have jumped on the social media bandwagon, here are some free tools for maximizing your search engine optimization of your social media usage: http://tinyurl.com/ybojqe4.

Payoff from understanding your client’s cultural outlook

Filed under: Client Development & Rainmaking — Janet Moore,

Some lawyers are notorious for emphasizing risks and potential downfalls–so much so that they turn off their clients.
So, while sitting in the Frankfurt airport’s business lounge yesterday, I was interested to happen on a story about just that–but in this case, the “negative spin” was caused by a cross-cultural discrepancy. As my  Knowing how another [...]

 
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