Here is your weekly roundup 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 social media discussions I have found to be interesting and (hopefully) applicable:

• Twitter in legal spat over data clampdown - Twitter Inc’s steadily tightening grip over the 140-character messages on its network has set off a spirited debate in Silicon Valley over whether asocial media company should or should not lay claim over its user-generated content…

• Social Media Savvy for General Counsel - Social media has complicated the management of employees and their relationships with co-workers, raising a host of legal issues for in-house counsel. The array of ways in which employees can communicate electronically has increased geometrically…

• Avoid Vague Social Media Policies - An NLRB administrative law judge held that the employee’s social media posting about the BMW event was protected concerted activity under the NLRA because his criticisms of the food were shared by co-workers, and there was a possibility that their…

• More Employers Creating Social Media Policies for the Workplace - As social media use continues to overlap more fluidly between the personal sphere and the business world, more employers are writing dedicated social media polices, and many are also monitoring employee use of social media sites at work, according to a …

• Legal Professionals Increasing Use of Social Media | Tennessee …
  Attorneys are increasingly utilizing Facebook and other social media sites to gain evidence for their cases due to the ease of obtaining publically accessible …

• More States Pass Laws to Protect Students’ Social Media Rights -  “This bill is a win for the personal privacy rights of students,” Shear said in an email to the Los Angeles Times, after the social media privacy law was passed the Delaware legislature. “Since schools generally do not have a duty to monitor their …

• Social Media in Law Practice - This is the final slide deck from my Social Media in Law Practice course for the Univ. of Dayton School of Law Digital Lawyering Program. Covering time …

• Optimising Your Social Media Profiles for Legal Professions - Being in a legal profession is a profession where standards are very important, so do your social media profiles reflect this trait? Here are some simple tips to …

• Employer Best Practices For Social Media Use On And Off The Job - Editor: We see that this is the second annual report on social media use in the workplace from Proskauer’s International Labor & Employment Law Group. What prompted a second survey? Ornstein: Proskauer conducted a second survey on social media use …

• Reinforcing the Social Media Wall – Protecting Online Privacy - With the rapid evolution of technology and the integration of social media in everyday life, more and more of a person’s life is lived and documented on social …