Social media and marketing your law practice: mistakes lawyers make

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People don’t have Facebook accounts just so you can show up and brag about yourself any more than they go to an ice cream social with their family hoping that you will come up and talk about your business, and leave a card. That should be common sense, but many lawyers seem to think the Internet was invented for marketing purposes, and go around littering the information superhighway with their billboards . . .

From the lawyerist, which provides advice & insight to law firms & solo practitioners. 

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Holiday office party coming up? Worried about the impression you're giving off? Here's an article that will help.

Personally, I can only take small talk for a short while before I hope the conversation turns to a topic with content.The way I turn the conversation from small talk to other topics, is by bringing up books, movies, or weekend hobbies. This also steers clear of "talking shop" at the party.

Social Networking and Myspace: Is Myspace still relevant?

Is myspace still relevant? Maybe, but not really, says the Michigan Court of Appeals.
A CSC victim's myspace page became relevant when a defendant appealed his conviction. After the Defendant was found guilty of CSC, he appealed, using as new evidence that the victim posted on her myspace page that she "didn't remember anything" from the evening of the alleged assault. The Michigan Court of Appeals held that the testimony could be used to impeach, but not to get a new trial, because that evidence alone could not “serve as the basis for awarding a new trial under existing case law because it could only be used for impeachment purposes.”

See article here from Michigan Appeals, a law-related blog.