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Content and Community | What I’m doing with social media in 2011

Looking back - Looking forward. Social media and social networking platforms open up doors to new relationships and often work well as tools for marketing - broad distribution, top of mind impact, and exposure for expertise. However, looking back on my...

Published Wed, Jan 5 2011 10:06 AM by Jayne Navarre

Filed under: social media, twitter, LinkedIn, jayne navarre, facebook, social media marketing, martindale.com connected

Navigating The Social Web | A Very Large Marketplace

Conversations in the Marketplace In the purest sense the social Web is a very large marketplace populated by people who come and go for the purpose of engaging in conversations about things they do, make, think about, and care about, and of course to...

Published Mon, Jan 3 2011 11:59 AM by Jayne Navarre

Filed under: social media, twitter, LinkedIn, jayne navarre, facebook, social media marketing

Measuring the value of social media in driving traffic to your law firm website

It's mid-December and much of the country is buried in a cold snap. It's also the time of year where we all seek frenetic joy in the holiday shopping, eating, drinking, socializing Spirit. And, it's also budget season - still - for many law...

Published Tue, Dec 14 2010 11:09 AM by Deborah McMurray

Filed under: legal marketing, social media, twitter, LinkedIn, Deborah McMurray, facebook, martindale.com

Managing Social Media in Your Law Firm | The Next Big Thing

We've come a long way, baby! Three years ago, when I founded my company Law Gravity , I talked to a lot of law firms about their "plans" for using social media. Their response: "What plans?" There were firms that had a blog or...

Published Tue, Dec 14 2010 10:45 AM by Jayne Navarre

Filed under: Law Firm Management, social media, twitter, law firm marketing, legal business development, LinkedIn, jayne navarre, facebook, social media marketing

Law Firm Twitter Accounts

There's a lot more interest in Twitter from law firms these days. We know that individual lawyers are having success using the micro-blogging service for gaining exposure and access to extremely broad networks of interested parties, including prospects...

Published Wed, Dec 1 2010 10:00 AM by Jayne Navarre

Filed under: legal marketing, social media, twitter, legal business development, jayne navarre

Twitter Post Exposes Paris

According to the gossip site, radar.com : A photograph posted by Paris Hilton more than a month prior to her drug arrest in Las Vegas could blow up her claim that the purse she was carrying - which contained cocaine - did not belong to her. In mid-July...

Published Fri, Sep 3 2010 12:24 PM by Jayne Navarre

Filed under: legal marketing, social media, twitter, legal business development, jayne navarre, paris hilton

How to Write a Blog Post: content ideas for lawyers who blog.

Setting up a blog is easy. Whether you do it yourself or hire someone to do it for you, it will probably be the last easy thing you do in your life as a lawyer who blogs. The rest of your life as a lawyer who blogs will revolve around an empty white box...

Published Mon, Jul 19 2010 9:34 AM by Jayne Navarre

Filed under: business development, Law Firm Management, Blogs, law firms, marketing, social media, CMOs, law firms, Martindale-Hubbell Connected, twitter, law firm marketing, legal business development, law firm strategy, LinkedIn, client relations, lawyers

LinkedIn Tips: Build a Twitter list using your LinkedIn Connections

I want social networking online to give me greater reach, not add to my workload. I'm always searching for ways to cut down on the amount of time I spend keeping in touch with my valuable online social networks. One way I've found to double up...

Published Thu, Jul 1 2010 1:12 PM by Jayne Navarre

Filed under: legal marketing, social media, twitter, legal business development, LinkedIn

Too Busy For Marketing? Tap Into Your Social Web Communities

Who has time for business development when you're really busy with client work? Since the beginning of 2010 I've been struggling to balance the time I devote to taking care of my clients-who deserve 100 percent of my attention-and the time I can...

Published Wed, Apr 28 2010 4:31 PM by Jayne Navarre

Filed under: legal marketing, business development, Blogs, marketing, social media, twitter, law firm marketing

3 Reasons For Legal Marketers to Start Thinking Like Journalists

As a professional marketing legal services, there is a need for you to distinguish your services. Obviously, all information is not created equal, and it is more important now than ever for you to reach out to your audience as a viable information source...

Published Wed, Apr 14 2010 3:52 PM by Kara Smith

Filed under: legal marketing, business development, Blogs, marketing, social media, twitter

Fear of Facebook Part III: Fan Pages for Law Firms?

"There's a lot of business done in country clubs, but you'll never see a company open a booth in the club's dining room. Instead, individual business people network quietly there, blending into the scene and using the social atmosphere...

Published Wed, Apr 7 2010 6:55 PM by Jayne Navarre

Filed under: legal marketing, business development, Law Firm Management, Blogs, strategy, law firms, marketing, social media, Martindale-Hubbell Connected, twitter

If Mobile’s Becoming Increasingly Important for Small Biz Development – Doesn’t That Include Legal & iPhones Too?

Mobile and wireless technologies such as smart phones, Wi-Fi hotspots and laptop data cards are becoming more important for small-business owners, according to the "Small Business Technology Poll" from AT&T. A recent article in E-marketer...

Published Fri, Mar 26 2010 6:07 PM by Kara Smith

Filed under: legal marketing, business development, marketing, social media, twitter, mobile technology

The Social Web Revolution and Law Firm Marketing Professionals

While no longer a novelty to Tweet a conference in social media circles, (see #SWSX), for the legal industry it is ground breaking. Just a short year ago we only had a handful of people experimenting with the tools during the Legal Marketing Association's...

Published Tue, Mar 23 2010 9:26 AM by Jayne Navarre