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 …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

No0bs Listen Up!

I just read a fabulous post by Chris Brogan about social media etiquette and I had to share it with you! For me, this post by Brogan is a gift from above! Thank You! As you all know, I am a No0b at this as I have been sharing my educational journey with you through …

Grandpaw’s Lessons: My New Blog Series

I have decided to start a blog series called “Grandpaw’s Lessons”. The general purpose of this series will be to share many of the lessons that my grandfather taught me as well as how, throughout my life, I always seem to be getting reminded of them—sometimes in a good way, sometimes not! (depending upon whether …

I’m a No0b! + A Few Other Social Media Lessons I Recently Learned

I’m a no0b. At least that’s what my teenage son says about “gamers” who don’t know the ropes when he’s talking smack to them on X-Box Live. And, just to tell you how much of a no0b I am, when I let my children see the title of this post, in which I spelled it …

Why Would A Lawyer Waste Time Studying Social Media?

Because I don’t want to look like an idiot! (How’s that for getting straight to the point?) I really do hope that someone out there will actually read my blog. When that actually does happen (that’s right, I am believing with faith), I suspect that the first question they will ask after seeing my posts …

What I Learned In My First Week Using Social Media For Business

Last week I began a self-study crash course in using social media for businesses. I had to, right? I mean we are now fully engaged in this “New Economy” that is often said to be changing the way the world does business. I hope this really is the future because I have spent a week …