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Lunchtime webcast: social networking for lawyers

March 10, 2009

If you are eating at your desk today, join me for a CLE webcast on social networking for lawyers. The webcast is hosted by MCLE, and I will be talking with Peter Berge and Roy Ginsburg about online social networking as a marketing tool.
Here is MCLE’s blurb:

Solo/Small Firm Series: Social Networking for Lawyers
Part of the [...]

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Link roundup: Twitter

February 4, 2009

Look, you aren’t going to “get” Twitter until you give it a try. So give it a try. These links will help you get started.

8 Useful Tips To Become Successful With Twitter | Smashing Magazine
145 Lawyers (and Legal Professionals) to Follow on Twitter | JD Scoop
Twitter 101 for Lawyers | Practicing Law in the 21st [...]

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X-treme networking in Second Life

October 16, 2008

Like you, I get many solicitations to join bar associations and sections and attend CLE seminars. County bar, state bar, ABA – one could easily make a full-time job out of bar activities. Now I’ve learned that there is a bar association that exists almost entirely in cyberspace: the Second Life Bar Association.
Second Life, as [...]

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Your future clients are looking for your website

October 15, 2008

Jay Foonberg reported that, as of 2006, only 22% of blue-collar Americans and 11% of middle-class Americans use the phone book to find a lawyer. And that was two years ago.
If you don’t market online, that means you are ignoring 80-90% of your potential future clients.
And not just the younger ones. According to the AARP, [...]

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Why I am not following you on Twitter

September 10, 2008

Reason #1: You actually blog about what you are doing. Reading your catalog of what you are actually doing throughout your day is boring. For example:

Just woke up. Making coffee.
Sitting down with the morning paper.
Leaving for work. Lots to do today!
Sorting through the mail. Lots of bills, no checks.
Eating a turkey sandwich from the corner [...]

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Social networking: how much time should it take?

August 27, 2008

Time seems to be one of the most-common reasons why attorneys who do not use social networks do not start. In the world of hourly billing, all time has a value, and many attorneys seem to believe that (1) networking online will take a lot of time and (2) may not be worthwhile in the [...]

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Avvo, the controversial lawyer rating site, comes to Minnesota

August 16, 2008

Avvo has finally come to Minnesota. The controversial lawyer rating site has been sued, panned, and lauded. Whatever your feelings on it, Avvo is here, and soon your clients will be looking you up on Avvo and reviewing your performance.
On the plus side, Avvo lets lawyers claim their profile and add information like practice areas, [...]

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Reduce e-mail with social networking tools

June 29, 2008

Luis Suarez, who works for IBM from the Canary Islands, got tired of wading through piles of e-mail, so he moved most of his communications to social networking tools, especially blogs. To keep up with his co-workers, he used an RSS reader (I use Google Reader for the same thing) to stay on top of [...]

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Twitter drive for Twins tickets–last chance!

June 29, 2008

To play, go to twitter.com/samglover and follow me. I will select one winner from everyone who adds me by tomorrow.

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Twitter drive for Twins tickets

June 24, 2008

To play, go to twitter.com/samglover and follow me. I will select one winner from everyone who adds me between now and June 30th. The tickets are two vouchers for the lower reserved section, and you can use them at any home game.

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