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As a lawyer, how do you use social networking? Do you have a fan page on Facebook? Do you tweet on Twitter? Have any of you had any success in attracting clients through your social media endeavors?
On a related note, Wilma’s boss Fred sent her a friend request of Facebook. Should she accept it?
Yes, setup a company page and post accolades from clients onto it.
Twitter – not so much, other than links to that same Facebook page.
My small two-attorney firm does get a client every now and then from Facebook/Twitter, but we get at least one potential client call from seeing one of us on AVVO and call based on our positive client reviews.
I think it's a bad idea to friend your boss on Facebook unless you also add them to a default exclusion list. If your boss is your 'friend' on Facebook then you don't get a place to vent to your real friends when you have a problem at work.
Not enough information. Is Wilma kind of hot and her boss kind of old and gross? Are they both old and gross? Are they both hot? Is the boss hot and Wilma gross? Marital status? Years together? Strictly a work relationship or do they also socialize? Are they having an affair? Does one or both of them want to have an affair? Is it a business Facebook or strictly personal? Are they the same gender?
These are the questions Wilma needs to be asking herself!
My rule, which works well, is keep Facebook for non-professional activity and people, and LinkedIn for professional. Twitter really isn't meaningful for business development in my experience.
Twitter is only useful to promote other content.
Facebook is for idiots. People who lack self-esteem post photos to try to act fake and then all of their fake Facebook friends act like they care about everyone else's nonsense. It's the biggest waste of time in the history of the world.
I will never have a Facebook page. Everybody already knows that I'm a rich, successful attorney. I don't have to post photos to prove it. And I'm saying all of this anonymously for good reason — because I don't want anyone to feel I am bragging in any way since I don't have to do so.
Never accept facebook friend requests from your boss. Also, never reject it. Just leave it sitting in limbo and never mention it again.
I have a business Facebook page but have never gotten a client from it–I do not have a personal Facebook, haven't had one in years, and my life improved dramatically when I deleted it. I research people on Facebook for my cases, and it still shocks me what people publicly post. So foolish.
Off topic: Can one of you licensing attorneys tell me why it is that building codes require that the toilet paper box be jammed up right against the toilet so that I have to sit sideways to drop a deuce? Thanks to ADA, stalls are nice and roomy, but they put the toilet all the way in the corner, jammed up against the toilet paper box. Ridiculous. I rarely go number 2 outside the comforts of my home, but when I do, it's in a "Class A" building or restaurant, and they are all the same.
Asking the real questions.
604.7 Dispensers. Toilet paper dispensers shall comply with 309.4 and shall be 7 inches (180 mm) minimum and 9 inches (230 mm) maximum in front of the water closet measured to the centerline of the dispenser. The outlet of the dispenser shall be 15 inches (380 mm) minimum and 48 inches (1220 mm) maximum above the finish floor and shall not be located behind grab bars. Dispensers shall not be of a type that controls delivery or that does not allow continuous paper flow.
Advisory 604.7 Dispensers. If toilet paper dispensers are installed above the side wall grab bar, the outlet of the toilet paper dispenser must be 48 inches (1220 mm) maximum above the finish floor and the top of the gripping surface of the grab bar must be 33 inches (840 mm) minimum and 36 inches (915 mm) maximum above the finish floor.
Thank you. The bureaucrats are out to destroy happiness anywhere and everywhere. Thanks to the courts, I can't even sue to have them add a few inches variance in there to accommodate my big butt. Is this what America has become? Oh, btw, Bob Dole can drop dead for imposing this crap on me!
@ 1:02 In your statement you acknowledge the stall is roomier for a disabled person. Extra room is a luxury for you, but a necessity for many disabled people. Do you really believe a variance to accommodate a more comfortable experience for you should result in lack of restrooms for the disabled? I guess what America has become is a place that protects disabled against harm that would be caused by thoughtless individuals like you.
Que? I love large stalls! The bigger the better. I just don't see how jamming the toilet paper box up against my thigh helps any cripples at all. I mean, really, how does mandating 7-9 inches help the helpless? Are we all mindless (I'd say thoughtless, but you used that word in its callous sense) liberals now? PC sentiments are worth more than actual thinking?
Imagine I was fat and.crippled? How sad it would be that the law mandates I drop my deuce sideways, leaning against my wheelchair for support, hoping I don't slip and face plant on the floor.
Lose some f@cking weight.
Microaggression alert! My right to be fat and fabulous outweighs your right to call me out for being fat. So there. Check your skinny privilege.
blog is dead.
Hi blog is dead fred
Fat shaming is perfectly acceptable. Lose weight if you don't like being fat. It's not like we are force feeding you like a CD attorney at a deposition shoving bagels and donuts down their throat like a baby bird being fed by its mother.
It's call a salad. Try it. Maybe even try a Cobb salad to wean your fat ass off unhealthy food.
Twitter is fantastic – if you're using it for self promotion or to tweet fb links, you're doing it wrong. Reddit is important as well. Avvo is a scam as far as paying for a pro account goes, but the score goes a ways with referrals who want to confirm their choice. Each platform is different and takes a different style – periscope is the latest one of interest.
In my opinion:
1. My boss will never be my friend.
2. I will never post anything that could be used against me.
3. My boss will never be my friend.
4. My clients are never my friends.
5. My boss will never be my friend.
6. My Facebook is a private as possible. I do not let anyone lurk to see what I may post.
7. My boss will never be my friend.
Clear? My boss will never be my friend.
While facebook may or may not be a useful business and marketing tool (my firm's has not been yet, but hell, 6 years may not be long enough?) it certainly is a fabulous resource for cops and DA's in prosecuting my clients. To say nothing of myspace which was even crazier when popular. I get one more case with photos of my client drinking, smoking…something, waving a gun around, displaying non traditional sign language or actually commiting the crime in question in the initial discovery packet and I may put a paragraph in my retainer agreement to the effect that I need access to the client'social media pages before I take the case.
Here's my experience. No matter where someone finds you, or what your areas of practice, everyday more and more people are using LinkedIn to vet you. Every lawyer can benefit from a great LinkedIn profile.
If you practice in any B2B areas of law (IP, Ins Def, Coverage, contracts, Com'l RE, Business lit, etc.) LinkedIn for 20 to 30 minutes each day (used correctly) will bring you prospects and clients.
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