Here is your weekly installment of the Week in Social Media News–a summary of social media news from around the web. As always, the focus of these stories is social media legal news (as opposed to the tens of thousands of stories on social media in general). Having culled through the hundreds of articles I review each week, here are some of the more interesting and applicable:
- Lawyers struggle to take commercial advantage of social media - Law firms should not underestimate the immeasurable marketing potential of social media technologies. A recent study from Lexis Nexis shows that more than three-quarters of people looking for a lawyer in the US did so online and Facebook was the most …
- Social-Media Do’s and Don’ts You’d Better Know - The folks at Fisher & Phillips (Atlanta-based employment law firm) sent me this link to a pretty formidable write-up by D. Albert Brannen (a partner there), spelling out just how much you need to keep in mind now under the more aggressive National …
- NLRB Determines Some Facebook Postings Don’t Have Federal Labor Law … - A ruling by National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has recently clarified some of the issues in the debate by determining that certain social media postings are not protected under federal labor law, reports Eric Grover, a Bay Area employment lawyer.
- The Long Arm Of The Law: How Social Media And P2P File-Sharing Are Not … - The behaviour of those using social media sites and online P2P file-sharing sites often gives the impression that they assume themselves to be ‘untouchable’ by law or regulation. So, sometimes, does the attitude evinced by the organisations that own or … (Registration Required — Boo!)
- Athletes’ social media use monitored by Athletic Department - The Athletic Department issued a social media policy this fall which outlines guidelines for usingsocial media as a student athlete and the disciplinary process if postings violate state or federallaw, institutional policies or NCAA rules. As stated …
- Social networks give rise to Internet law specialty - The next time you log into Facebook, Twitter or any other social media network, keep in mind that anything you post could be used as evidence in a lawsuit. That’s the message that experts in Internet law, a complex and new emerging aspect of the legal ..
- SF, Mountain View Among Police Who Rely on Social Media - But the latest and most high profile use of social media and law enforcement recently in the Bay Area stems from Sunday night in San Francisco, when a freelance Chronicle photographer took an image of a man bashing a barricade into a Muni bus, after …
It is always good to stay apprised of recent news surrounding social media, particularly how lawyers, attorneys, and other legal professionals are using social media as well as what they are saying. I hope you find this weekly installment of the previous week’s news related to social media and the law to be helpful, informative, and, in certain cases, entertaining.
My thanks to Google News, Bing News, and other news outlets for helping me find and share these stories.
