Would you tell a stranger that you were leaving for a ten day vacation to Acapulco? Would you willingly give out your birth date and address to someone you didn’t know? Most of us would answer a resounding “NO” to these questions. Yet millions of people–including many lawyers– do this daily on their Facebook and [...]
Last night I got to introduce John Otis, TIME and Global Post correspondent in Bogota, before a local World Affairs Council event. John recently published Law of the Jungle: The Hunt for Colombian Guerrillas, American Hostages, and Buried Treasure. Many years ago as a young journalist he made his way from Minnesota to South America [...]
Compliments to the State Bar of Texas for its March 2010 issue full of social media advice for lawyers, including two excellent articles by Debra Bruce.
What can lawyers possibly learn from FarmVille’s international social media success? As discussed in my Global Rainmaking blog, FarmVille’s creators took an idea that appealed to a wide variety of people, regardless of gender, culture or age–and developed it into a global phenomenon. Similarly, international lawyers who work with a wide variety of clients must [...]
The ABA Journal has posted some great, simple tips for using Facebook more effectively and securely. These tips include: using, and regularly changing, a “strong” password; updating privacy settings; and segregating clients on a “friends list”–and treating this list differently in terms of which Facebook information your clients can access.
