In a recent post I stated that in order to become a “rainmaker” you need to develop relationships with both your colleagues and potential clients through networking. This isn’t a particularly controversial idea or original concept. Savvy lawyers have always understood the value of making personal relationships in developing a book of business. There are two primary…
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Using Twitter Email Digests To Keep Up With Your Twitter Stream
I use Twitter as a tool for maintaining and developing relationships with other lawyers, other bloggers, and music industry professionals. It’s proven to be a fantastic tool for that purpose. The only problem arises as a result of the amount of tweets that scroll through my stream on an hourly basis. Even on my best…
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Event Networking Tips for Attorneys
How To Make a Great LinkedIn Profile
LinkedIn is undisputed as the world’s largest professional network. Unlike Facebook, for example, people primarily use LinkedIn for business purposes. The reasons this is beneficial for professional networking purposes should be obvious. After all, as of February 9, 2012, LinkedIn could claim more than 150 million members in over 200 countries and territories. Those numbers…
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How To Use Twitter To Promote Your Law Practice
Social media has radically altered the way people network in all industries. For many lawyers social media has changed not only the way they engage with their clients and colleagues, but has also the way they meet and initially interact with new connections. For this reason alone, Twitter should be a part of your office’s…
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7 Easy Ways To Increase Your Blog’s Traffic
Ok, so maybe you decided to take my advice and created a blog in order to network with other legal professionals and to connect with potential clients. Or maybe you aren’t new to the word of blogging (or blawgging if you like), but you want to increase your blog’s traffic. Here are some easy to…
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ABA Journal Compiling ‘Blawg 100 Amici’ List
‘Blawg’ — a portmanteau of ‘blog’ and ‘law’– is a word that has come to define the online journals of lawyers the globe over. A ‘blawgosphere,’ if you will. And as they do each year, the ABA Journal is now taking suggestions and compiling their list of the 100 best legal blogs. Outside of individual blawgs,…
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Sociable Lawyer Round Up: To Tweet Or Not To Tweet, That Is The Question
All the classic dramatic components are present. The scorned protagonist vowing to right an injustice and champion their banner for the world to see. Then, an antagonist rises from the midst and we begin to see the basic conflict develop. Complicating matters even further, secondary players and conflicts arise and frustrate our protagonist moreover. At…
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Five Kindergarten Lessons for Lawyers on Social Media
Life is constantly presenting us with recurring lessons and themes. You have to imagine that most of these lessons were taught to us at a young age, as early as kindergarten even, but somewhere along the lines we either stopped practicing them or just plum forgot. Take for example former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who…
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Look, What’s That In The Sky? Spreading the Word with Facebook and Twitter
Lois Lane @reporteracelois (Metropolis) ‘Bank robbery in progress down on fifth! Heading over ASAP to cover for @dailyplanet w/co-reporter @mildmanneredclark’ Jimmy Olsen @photoboyolsen (Metropolis) ‘Police are cautioning all civilians to avoid downtown. @Superman is now in the building! I can’t believe @mildmanneredclark is missing this…again.’ Had new media existed in the…
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