The Canadian Law Blog Awards, a.k.a. the Clawbies, are a project started back in 2006 with the goal of highlighting great blogs published by the Canadian legal industry. Steve Matthews and his team at Stem Legal have been working to advance Canadian legal blogging. They just opened up the nominations for your favourite Canadian law blogs … Read more »
Category: Social Networking and Web 2.0
Positioning yourself for tomorrow’s social media today: Practical approaches for legal professionals
Join me for a 60-minute Webinar at 11:00 am Eastern time on Wednesday, December 9. It’s free, sponsored by Martindale-Hubbell Connected. The webinar will give you ‘real world’ examples of social media tools helping legal professionals become more efficient and productive. The panelists will also discuss the future of social media use – will we … Read more »
Social Media: Policy Formation & Risk Management
Today, I am in San Francisco at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference at the Moscone Center, speaking on a panel about social media policies. I gave a presentation on Cloud Computing at the 2009 version of the Conference in Boston: Evening in the Cloud and Compliance and a presentation on blogging at the 2008 version of … Read more »
FINRA and Social Networking
Wall Street bankers and analysts increasingly want to use social networking to connect and interact with customers. But financial services companies have a hard time trying to comply with the compliance and regulatory requirements. Social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn provide new ways for financial service firms to connect, inform and interact … Read more »
Happy Halloween!
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One in Two U.K. Companies Block Social Networking Web Sites
Fulbright & Jaworski, the international law firm, just published their 6th Annual Litigation Trends Survey Report. It is an independent survey of senior corporate counsel from a wide range of industry sectors. About half of the respondents (52% of U.K. and 46% of U.S.) claim to block employees from accessing social networking Web sites. Two … Read more »
Web 2.0, Knowledge Management and Professional Development
Mark Frydenberg is teaching a new, experimental class at Bentley University’s: CS 299 – Web 2.0: Technology, Strategy, Community. I am the experiment today, telling my story to his students. The focus of my presentation will be how I learned about Web 2.0, started using it as a knowledge management tool and how I now … Read more »
Calendars and Household Compliance
It is hard to keep track of who is doing what with a busy family. You can’t show up on time and do what you are supposed to do if you don’t where you are supposed be. My work calendar runs on an Exchange / Outlook platform, as does The Wife’s calendar. Now that The Son … Read more »
FINRA Is Thinking About Changing Its Communications Rules
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) posted a regulatory notice on proposed new rules governing member communications with the public: Regulatory Notice 09-55. The new rules would replace current NASD Rules 2210 and 2211, the Interpretive Materials that follow NASD Rule 2210, and portions of Incorporated NYSE Rule 472. The proposal would replace the existing six … Read more »
Updated FTC Guidelines Affect Testimonial Advertisements, Bloggers, Celebrity Endorsements
On October 5, the FTC released their updated guidelines to advertisers on how to keep their endorsement and testimonial ads in line with the Federal Trade Commission Act. The guidelines were last updated in 1980. Clearly technology and publishing has changed significantly in the past 30 years. The revised Guides also add new examples to … Read more »