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LinkedIn Updates and Changes Every Lawyer Should Know

LinkedIn has been busy making even more changes to its platform lately. Here’s a summary of some of the changes and updates you should know about: Skills and Endorsements LinkedIn’s previously named “Skills and Expertise” section has been re-named “Skills and Endorsements” in part due to feedback LinkedIn received from lawyers who advised that many …

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LinkedIn for Lawyers: The “How To” on Using the Internet’s Most Effective Business Development Tool

This 90 minute webinar will be brought to you by the ABA Center for Professional Development. Almost every successful attorney networks. And there is simply no bigger platform than the Internet’s largest business-oriented social networking site–LinkedIn. With more than 240 million users (nearly 80% of whom are 35 years or older), LinkedIn has become the …

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Three steps to using LinkedIn

Three Steps to Using LinkedIn [infographic]

If you’re not a regular LinkedIn user, you may be wondering what it’s all about or where to start. This infographic was developed as a quick overview of three of the steps you need to take to build your LinkedIn presence. All of these steps are covered in more detail in the recently released Second …

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Who’s Using Social Media?

Lawyers ask me all of the time whether they should get involved in social media platforms, and whether those platforms really do anything to help them build their practices or attract potential clients and referral sources. When answering this question (or similar questions about any particular marketing endeavor), I encourage lawyers to first determine two …

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Google Plus for Lawyers

I’ve been getting a lot of questions from lawyers lately about Google Plus – do they really need yet another social network to concern themselves with? The answer may depend on why you’re considering Google Plus for yourself or your law firm. Many lawyers evaluate social media platforms based on whether their clients use them. …

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Using Visuals in Lawyer Marketing: Lawyer Meltdown Newsletter October 2012

Using Visuals in Lawyer Marketing Whether you believe the theories about the differences in learning styles (some people learn better visually, some by listening, etc.) or not, it is hard to deny that the world has become more and more visual. This may be due in part to the massive increase in online activity; people read and …

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