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This Week's LinkedIn Lawyer "Top Tweets" (the 'Post-Christmas Edition')

Twitter is a free and easy-to-use "micro-blogging" site that allows you to send and receive short updates from multiple users. David Barrett, The LinkedIn Lawyer is "Twittering" -- follow me here -- and keep up to date with news about Web 2.0 social media and the legal profession, with a particular focus on LinkedIn.

Here are the "Top Tweets" from the last week (partially as tracked with Tweetburner).

"Top Tweets"

David A. Barrett invites you to The LinkedIn Lawyer blog Facebook Group - http://twurl.nl/4wrk0y

Twitter Lawsuits: 4 Reasons Your Tweets Might Be Trouble - http://twurl.nl/xbr73i

RT: @Rex7 Top 5 Social Media Myths for Attorneys Explained - http://bit.ly/KcgL

How to use Facebook to be more productive - http://twurl.nl/a4p6fz

Social media brings new risks for companies and employees... http://twurl.nl/fw4o6u

How Sociable is your Brand? http://www.howsociable.com/

Increasing Traffic to your Website or Blog with LinkedIn - http://tinyurl.com/9xa9lf

Lawyers Should Blog First, Tweet Second - http://twurl.nl/yo7ulr

25 Traits Of Twitter Folks I Admire and 25 Folks Who Have Them - http://twurl.nl/b3uily

Eek! How to React When You've Been Slammed on Twitter - http://twurl.nl/r84riw

Top 10 Mistakes (lawyers) Make on LinkedIn - http://twurl.nl/ozlf8i

Twitter & Liability--Proceed with CAUTION - http://twurl.nl/p3q8m4

How To Develop Successful Online Legal Marketing Program - http://twurl.nl/jdn3vt

6 Simple Steps to Attract More Clients on the Internet - http://twurl.nl/6nwpjx

Tweet More, Blog More in New Economy - http://twurl.nl/107zsj

Poke me, poke you back: Facebook social networking context - http://twurl.nl/a8fx1e

David Barrett at Cornell University Law School's Legal Information Institute website - http://twurl.nl/l732xv

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Internet Marketing Strategies: How To Develop Successful Online Marketing Program

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How to Combine SEO, Blogging, and Social Media for Marketing Results by HubSpot

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This Week's LinkedIn Lawyer "Top Tweets"

Twitter is a free and easy-to-use "micro-blogging" site that allows you to send and receive short updates from multiple users. David Barrett, The LinkedIn Lawyer is "Twittering" -- follow me here -- and keep up to date with news about Web 2.0 social media and lawyers, with a particular focus on LinkedIn.

Here are the "Top Tweets" from the last week (partially as tracked with Tweetburner).

"Top Tweets"

Legal "birds" (Attorneys who use Twitter) - http://twurl.nl/j4nr1g

Making Rain in a Dry Economy with LinkedIn - http://twurl.nl/5rylhx

Facebook for Professionals - http://twurl.nl/68rojw

Get Your Own Personal Quick Link Invitation for LinkedIn - http://twurl.nl/iyf06s

Social Media Will Change Your Business - http://twurl.nl/cl0jqx

Sixteen Reasons to Tweet on Twitter - http://twurl.nl/arju1k

Call for Guest Bloggers at The LinkedIn Lawyer - http://twurl.nl/3mlsbg

The LinkedIn Lawyer Welcomes Business Development Expert Raymond "Chip" Lambert - http://twurl.nl/zr3hz8

Lawyers Link In to Social Networking - http://twurl.nl/t551tz

Top 25 Free eBooks on Social Media - http://twurl.nl/h6gxgi

David Barrett named Officer of Facebook Business Exchange - http://twurl.nl/itzdm2

Podcast Available - Social Networking Sites for Competitive Advantage - http://twurl.nl/df3i37

The LinkedIn Lawyer is now listed on Justia, BlogCatalog, and the ABA Journal - http://twurl.nl/ou3aoo

Molding Your Image, Tweet By Tweet - http://twurl.nl/2fozhw

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LinkedIn's SlideShare Application

Call for Guest Bloggers at The LinkedIn Lawyer

I would like to tip my hat to Amy Derby and Bill Marler for the inspiration to open up one’s blog for guest bloggers – thank you both.

The LinkedIn Lawyer is now open for Guest Bloggers with various areas of expertise – lawyers, social media mavens, legal marketers, and other super-networkers who are interested to write about and explore where social media meets the legal profession.

Collaboration is a great way to network!

Please contact David Barrett with your ideas for blog posts on The LinkedIn Lawyer.

This Week's LinkedIn Lawyer "Top Tweets"

Twitter is a free and easy-to-use "micro-blogging" site that allows you to send and receive short updates from multiple users. David Barrett, The LinkedIn Lawyer is "Twittering" -- follow me here -- and keep up to date with news about Web 2.0 social media and lawyers, with a particular focus on LinkedIn.

Here are the "Top Tweets" from the last week (partially as tracked with Tweetburner).

"Top Tweets"

Ten People All Lawyers Should Follow on Twitter - http://twurl.nl/2zqy8o

Many Thanks to @AriKaplan for hosting Using Social Networking Sites for Competitive Advantage http://twurl.nl/vmmae0

Now Find Legal News and Hot Docs from JD Supra on The LinkedIn Lawyer - http://twurl.nl/izstko

Can this be true? The LinkedIn Lawyer traffic rank is in the top 9.28 % of all websites - http://twurl.nl/ob0f2q

LinkedIn may well blow the “traditional” lawyer directories away - http://twurl.nl/uyfo3a

Social Media in Plain English - http://twurl.nl/yu5i1f

Ruthless NY commercial real estate litigator wanted - http://twurl.nl/e0gmob

Social Media Monitoring - 10 Free Tools - http://twurl.nl/hd61vb

Top 6 Tips to Expand Your LinkedIn Network - http://twurl.nl/f4oxuk

Quiz to find out what kind of LinkedIn user you are - http://twurl.nl/54ulrg

Is Your Comfort Zone Hurting You? - http://twurl.nl/xm1uh8

Lawyers Taking Over Second Life; David Barrett is Lawyer Goldshark - http://twurl.nl/jmccth

Play Nice: Legal Issues & Social Media - http://twurl.nl/ue8fxg

YouTube Videos Are Pulling in Serious Money - http://twurl.nl/nt07b2

Preparing to be an "Esteemed Panelist" for this Upcoming Thompson-West LEGALworks Webcast - http://twurl.nl/kivpm1

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Ten People All Lawyers Should Follow on Twitter

Twitter is a free and easy-to-use "micro-blogging" site that allows you to send and receive short updates from multiple users. David Barrett, The LinkedIn Lawyer is "Twittering" -- follow me here -- and keep up to date with news about Web 2.0 social media and lawyers, with a particular focus on LinkedIn.

Besides Twellow, there are basically two lists of lawyers on Twitter -

1. 145 Lawyers (and Legal Professionals) to Follow on Twitter (now 502) and

2. BigLaw Lawyers on Twitter

After following many of these lawyers, and with the suggestion of Problogger I humbly submit my "Top Ten" Twitterers all lawyers should follow on Twitter.

There are many many more than 10 folks worthy of being followed on Twitter, so to create this list, I focused on my opinion of how good their "Tweets" are, rather than how great their blogs are, important their books are, how skilled these Tweeters are as lawyers, or how otherwise interesting they may be.

Are you Tweeting about having coffee? Are you providing followers Twitter updates about how you have finished writing a motion? Are you using Twitter as email that we call can see? You may not find yourself here.

The LinkedIn Lawyer's Ten People All Lawyers Should Follow on Twitter

1. @barrettdavid - The LinkedIn Lawyer; solid content and links in all Tweets mostly about social media with a few potential client referrals.

2. @kevinokeefe - CEO of LexBlog; always finding new boundaries to explore.

3. @JayFleischman - New York Bankruptcy Lawyer; who could make a CLE in bankruptcy law from his Tweets alone.

4. @SCartierLiebel - Creator of Solo Practice University; don't be fooled by her conversational Tweeting style as lawyers can learn loads from her Twittering.

5. @JDSupra - HotDocs are a constantly updated source of newsworthy legal documents, direct from the source; hard information you don't find other places.

6. @stevematthews - founder of Stem Legal; so much legal tech problem solving information here lawyers benefit by just taking a peek.

7. @bobambrogi - Lawyer, writer, consultant; an evangelist new media lawyers should believe and follow in detail.

8. @bentleytolk - practicing lawyer, consults to lawyers and future lawyers; Attorney Tolk shares great information and this is one from the BigLaw list that won't hurt your Twitter Grade as bad as the others.

9. @chrisbrogan - advises on how to use social media and social networking to build value; law practice is a business and lawyers can learn a lot from this non-lawyer social media pro.

10. @MIAMICRIMLAW - Miami Criminal and Bar Defense lawyer; shares both useful information and a great sense of humor.


Interested to learn more about Twitter for Lawyers? Spend some time with Nichole Black's Twitter 101 for Lawyers.

This Week's "Top Tweets" from The LinkedIn Lawyer

Twitter is a free and easy-to-use "micro-blogging" site that allows you to send and receive short updates from multiple users. David Barrett, The LinkedIn Lawyer is "Twittering" -- follow me here -- and keep up to date with news about Web 2.0 social media and lawyers, with a particular focus on LinkedIn.

Here are the "Top Tweets" from the last week (i.e. those which registered the most traffic as tracked with Tweetburner).

"Top Tweets"

Can Lawyers Afford to Ignore Social Media? http://twurl.nl/lsm4xl

Is Attorney Marketing on Social Media an Oversight Nightmare? http://twurl.nl/s2wj3a

LinkedIn: A Competitive Intelligence Tool http://twurl.nl/avts1q

Facebook for Lawyers 101 http://twurl.nl/uxlp77

Facebook for Lawyers? http://twurl.nl/ffqwvn

ABA Journal feature "Social Promotion" http://twurl.nl/fw4dro

RT: @bobambrogi LawSites blog: 10 Essential Podcasts for Lawyers http://twurl.nl/ulo8ex

Twellow Search for Lawyer http://twurl.nl/yn6ox0

Five Steps to Effective Law Firm Marketing Positioning http://twurl.nl/5v4u5c

RT: @kevinokeefe LinkedIn founder: People know they can Google you, so you have to be entrepreneurial with your own brand http://is.gd/9xCR

BigLaw Lawyers on Twitter http://twurl.nl/cyd1o8

Social Network Sites Only Work for Lawyers Who Work at Them http://twurl.nl/5hrkbu

The Value of Twitter http://twurl.nl/85ui7v

Find David Barrett on Twitter @barrettdavid

Use LinkedIn Answers to Interact with Potential Clients and In-House Counsel

Lawyers need to use LinkedIn to have it pay off for them. The ABA Journal notes that Social Network Sites Only Work for Lawyers Who Work at Them, and in addition to building connections or building recommendations, one way to work at LinkedIn is to participate in the Question and Answer sections. LinkedIn may not change your practice much if you merely set up a profile with a few connections with other folks around the office.

Steven Shimek talks about how interacting via the Questions and Answers feature on LinkedIn has helped him bring over $250,000 of new business to his public relations firm.

There are plenty of LinkedIn members seeking legal counsel as well, as you may find almost everyday in the Law and Legal Question and Answer section, and those that I work to post on Twitter. You can see some examples of these type of client inquiries in My Tweet Sixteen - http://twurl.nl/kmrdu4

What Is the Value of Social Media?

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