Over the past few weeks, I’ve been marveling over the experience I had during and after the Legal Marketing Association’s annual national conference.  It was obviously an honor to be invited to speak about how law firms are using social media from an in-house marketing/communications perspective.  The presentation itself went very well — it was even SRO (thanks in part
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As promised, here’s the results of my survey of AmLaw100 firms who have a presence on Twitter.  As I did  my research, I was reminded how lousy the search function is on Twitter.  I also came up against a search limitation after about 25 (or so) searches… I would have to wait until the top of the hour to try searching
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At a presentation yesterday at the Legal Marketing Association’s annual conference, I discussed a survey I did of how many AmLaw100 firms have a Facebook presence in the form of a fan page.  For reference and posterity, I am sharing the results here on the blog, too.  I also surveyed the same firms’ presence on Twitter, results of which I
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I came across this article in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune that nearly perfectly juxtaposed the old world that seems to be falling away quickly with the new world that has arrived.  The story is about the closing of a once-successful Chicago dairy — McDonald’s was a customer, buying supplies for its milkshakes — that fell victim to the classic economic squeeze play of
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