You may or may not be creeped out by this new app but, it’s a good bet that if you haven’t already been creeped on, you will be. All from your own information! A new app called Girls Around Me is a creeper’s dream. The scariest part about it is that it is powered by…
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Business Situational Awareness & Social Media
How can your employees’ social media usage be compromising your businesses’ assets? I have said it before: business and warfare are one in the same. The objectives are the same and the tactics are the same. Both require an understanding of situational awareness. What is situational awareness? Situational Awareness is the ability to identify, process,…
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Update on “who owns Twitter account” case: Court denies Kravitz’s Motion to Dismiss
If you’re not living under a rock and you’ve been keeping up with the latest developments in social media law such as the case about “who owns your Twitter account”, i.e. PhoneDog v. Kravitz, there is a recent development. The court denied Kravitz’s motion to dismiss the following of PhoneDog’s claims: intentional interference with prospective…
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Recent Cases Highlight Need for Businesses to Have Social Media Policies
A businesses’ social media assets are its intellectual property and need to be protected. This point underlies the message of a recent article entitled Court Cases are Shaping Social Media Law in which the authors discuss three recent court cases involving the ownership and use of social media and how important it is for businesses…
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Learn About Social Media Through Pictures on Pinterest!
If you would like to learn a lot more about social media by simply looking at pictures instead of reading boring blog posts, I can tell you how to do it … but first you have to get to the end of this boring blog post (hint: or just skip right to the bottom if…
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Social Media Policy Must Have: when are they on the clock?
If your company has employees managing its social media you better have a policy that makes it clear when they are “on the clock” and “off the clock” or you could end up in trouble for violating the Fair Labor Standards Act. Consider this scenario: Your company has a non-exempt employee managing the company LinkedIn, Facebook,…
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Your business needs a social media policy and this is why.
It is foolish to not have one. Having a social media policy is like having a Will for your businesses’ branding and marketing efforts and the cost of getting that policy will likely be less than the bill for the first day in litigation if you do not! Social media is the next big thing…
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Are LinkedIn Contacts Trade Secrets?
A judge “across the pond” ruled that an employee’s LinkedIn contacts were, in essence, trade secrets of his former employer where those contacts were created during the term of employment and mimicked the employer’s confidential and proprietary business contacts. This raises quite a few legal issues for employers and employees. In fact, I wrote a…
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“Should Blogs Be Short?” or
“Scheduled Blogging Is Hard For Practicing Lawyers” The latter is probably the most insightful thing I learned about social media and blogging over this past week. That’s right, I have been quiet this week. Not because I haven’t had a lot that I wanted to blog about but because I have been busy as all…
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Grandpaw’s Lessons: Be a Craftsman
I have been hearing the word “craftsman” my whole life. Grandpaw taught me about it decades ago when I was just a kid. So, while this is his lesson, the truth is that I was reminded of recently when reading Seth Godin’s blog on The new craftsmanship and it had such a profound impact…
