On February 17, 2009, Securities Docket is sponsoring a webcast that will look at the numerous ways that securities and compliance counsel and professionals can now use web 2.0 to promote, market, and network themselves, their practices and their firms as never before. Please join Bruce Carton, Editor of Securities Docket, and me for a … Read more »
Category: Social Networking and Web 2.0
Web 2.0 – Leveraging New Media to Maximize Your Securities & Compliance Practice
The Site is Live
Today, I imported the site from a private WordPress.com blog site to this domain. Check back next year for the blogoversary party! This marks the start of my third year blogging. I started my fist blog, KM Space, on this day in 2007. Image is from Petr Kratochvil at publicdomainpictures.net. Read more »
FINRA’s Guide to the Internet
FINRA has published a Guide to the Internet for Registered Representatives. It paints a difficult picture for registered representatives wanting to use Web 2.0 tools. FINRA breaks internet activity into five main group for purposes or regulatory requirements: Publicly available Web sites (including banner advertisements, blogs and bulletin boards) are considered advertisements. An email or … Read more »
Can Facebook Get You Into Legal Trouble?
Kim S. Nash writing for CIO.com: How Text Messaging and Facebook Can Get You in Legal Trouble. The article focusing on the electronic discovery pitfalls of the ever-changing and expanding ways we communicate. One thing is clear, banning access to social networking platforms is not effective. Even if you ban access in the workplace, your … Read more »
Facebook and Airlines
British Airways and Virgin Atlantic both ran into trouble when their employees posted nasty remarks about their customers on Facebook. This raises the question about whether the companies did enough to educate their employees about the proper use of social networking. See: The Economist: Losing Face The Guardian: Virgin Sacks 13 Over Facebook ‘chav’ Remarks … Read more »
Lawyers and the Social Internet
Kevin O’Keefe, of Real Lawyers Have Blogs, put together his thoughts on what are the best social internet places for a lawyer or law firm to spend their resources: Lawyers and Social Media – It the Big Three. Kevin picks Blogs, Twitter and LinkedIn. As usual, I agree with Kevin. Every professional should have a … Read more »
New Social Networks for Lawyers
Omar Ha-Redeye writes on slaw.ca about two new social networks for lawyers: Lawyrs Looking for Alternative Social Networks and Social Network on Jurafide for American Clients. Jurafide.com is a networking and marketing site that facilitates communication between U.S. clients and non-U.S. lawyers. Lawyrs.net looks like a social networking platform for lawyers with some group discussions … Read more »
Lawyers and Twitter
I am user of Twitter. For those of you unfamiliar with Twitter, you can think of it as a combination of blogging and instant messaging. Each post or tweet is limited to 140 characters so you can send tweets by text message. Like most social media, it is cheap (free and currently free of advertising) … Read more »
Intel’s Social Media Guidelines
Intel has published their Social Media Guidelines. I like their approach of giving users guidelines for they should and should not do. The context is to place the responsibility on the individual. It is that person who is creating the content. They are responsible for the content and the consequences. I think it is a … Read more »