It’s always useful to look at what your competition is doing. The same is true in drafting your code of conduct (or code of...
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Social Networking and Web 2.0
MoFo2Go
Do I care if my law firm has an iPhone App? As client, I care about my law firms delivering useful information to me.
Kevin O’Keefe says your law firm should forget about building an iPhone App. Morrison & Foerster didn’t heed his advice and created MoFo2Go, an iPhone app.
iPhone App versus Mobile View
Kevin’s post...
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Wikis, Learning, Teaching and Compliance
I am a believer that the use of 2.0 tools can help compliance professionals. (Hopefully, this blog is a part of that proof.)
Moving to the inherently open communication of 2.0 tools from the inherently private channel communication of email can expose sunlight on behavior and expose information. Incorrect information and behavior can be corrected....
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Boston Bar Association Presentation on Web 2.0
Martha Sperry of Advocate’s Studio asked me to join her in a presentation to the Boston Bar Association’s Computer & Internet Law Committee titled: Beyond LinkedIn: Advanced Social Media for Lawyers.
Martha Sperry, OneBeacon Insurance Group Ltd., and Doug Cornelius will lead a brown-bag lunch discussion for lawyers who are familiar with the various forms...
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Futures Trading and Social Networking
With this week’s release of FINRA’s guidance on social media sites for securities traders, I thought it would be interesting to look at how the futures trading regulatory body is dealing with the issues. It turns out that the National Futures Association recently amended its rules to address social media and released new interpretive...
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Weekend Book Review: Sonic Boom by Gregg Easterbrook
You may know Gregg Easterbrook from his previous book The Progress Paradox (one of his six books) or his articles in The Atlantic. I know him mostly from his hobby: writing the Tuesday Morning Quarterback column on ESPN.com.
Sonic Boom tries to look beyond the current recession. Easterbrook looks ahead to what to expect after...
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Governing Social Media: How to Monitor, Manage and Make the Most of Employee Use of Social Media
Join me, Kathleen Edmond, Chief Ethics Officer, Best Buy, and Janice Innis-Thompson, SVP & Chief Compliance Officer, TIAA-CREF, as we discuss compliance and governance issues of web 2.0 and social networking.
“Corporate Communication takes on a whole new meaning in a world of social media, where employees can freely post their views and spread documents,...
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The Economist Special Report on Social Networking.
“An astonishing amount of time is being wasted on investigating the amount of time being wasted on social networks.”
I love reading The Economist because of lines like that. The January 28 issue has a special report on social networking. (The cover image is Steve Jobs dressed like Moses with his new tablet)
“Another , by...
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FINRA Issues Guidance on Social Networking Sites
Securities firms and brokers have been looking for guidance on how they can use social networking sites. Actually most industries have been trying to figure out what they can and cannot do with these sites. The difference is that the FINRA limitations on communicating with the public make it very difficult to use the...
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Social Networking Compliance
Think Before You Tweet!
What are the challenges for broker/dealers and investment advisers trying to use social networking sites?
Complinet hosted a webinar on this topic with Clifford Kirsch from Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP and Debbie Corej, Vice President, Compliance – Insurance Division, Prudential.
Clifford started the discussion by pointing out the need to think...
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Social Networking is Serious Business – Presentation Materials
I joined John Pepper, the CEO of Boloco and Russ Edelman the CEO of Corridor Consulting at meeting of the New England Chapter of AIIM on Friday. The topic was “Social Networking is Serious Business.”
Russ started us off with a great background on Web 2.0 and social networking tools.
Here is the slidedeck he used:
AIIM...
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