TURN OFF YOUR IPAD? | How digital natives COULD impact the future of the legal profession
byBoarding a flight between Montreal and Miami yesterday I overheard a mother tell her son, who looked no more than 3-years-old, “Turn off your…
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Tech Lexicon: Most confusing terms of the decade
byAnd now for something REALLY fun…. This post may not be directly important to your work as a marketer or lawyer, but I’m pretty…
Always Connected | A day in the digital life
byAlways Connected: A Day In The Digital Life WHAT’S IN YOUR DIGITAL LIFE? Me. Well, I recently moved and do not have an extra…
Managing Social Media in Your Law Firm | The Next Big Thing
byWe’ve come a long way, baby! Three years ago, when I founded my company Law Gravity, I talked to a lot of law firms…
Does your law firm need a “social agency?”
byAs social media channels grow and the “what should we be doing” buzz slowly moves across the legal marketing industry, more legal marketing professionals…
Social Media Black-outs and brown-outs: Are we getting burnt out?
bySomething other than Autumn leaves is in the air. This week I’ve seen mentioned three high profile instances of individuals and institutions going on…
Twitter Post Exposes Paris.
byAccording to the gossip site, radar.com: A photograph posted by Paris Hilton more than a month prior to her drug arrest in Las Vegas…
The Semantic Web: Fantastic and a bit scary
byEDITORS NOTE: This post is from 2010. Check out this 2017 post on chat bots. The future is now. The Semantic Web (Web 3.0)…
Beyond social networking: The business of law
byThe social Web has revolutionized the way consumers are learning about their health related issues and choosing professionals. There is a strong correlation for…
Technology Blows Winds of Change
byPolitical topics are not my focus, however, I recently read with great interest a op-ed piece, Winds of Change?, by The New York Times Op-Ed Columnist THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN that drew me in and so I’m sharing it with my blog readers. He wrote on June 13th, 2009 that “something is going on in the Middle East today that is very new.” And …”four historical forces have come together to crack open this ossified region.”
Mr. Friedman lists as the first force: the diffusion of technology.
“I knew something had changed when I sat down for coffee on Hamra Street in Beirut last week with my 80-year-old friend and mentor, Kemal Salibi, one of Lebanon’s greatest historians, and he told me about his Facebook group!”