It’s interesting to see some law firms are using social media posts as an environmentally conscious alternative to Christmas cards. People are urged to ‘like’ the post, with a promise to donate a small amount to charity for every like received. At first glance, this could be dismissed as a miserly...
Are you attending an event soon? As a lawyer, you may feel inundated with invitations, from charity and CSR related events such as the London Legal Walk, to smaller upskilling seminars and working breakfasts, to vast multi-national networking conferences such as the IBA annual conference. However, not only are these...
Head a long way north from the Kensington offices of the Daily Mail, and you get to my home town of Darlington. Keep on going, while tacking west, and you get to Bamburgh, where the RNLI Grace Darling Museum commemorates the woman whose efforts on 7 September 1838, aged just 22,...
When the team and I are helping clients improve their social media presence, we are often asked about things they should avoid doing. So we've pulled together our top five which I hope you'll find useful.
We have all seen them: the posts that make you cringe, close your eyes and hope they don't attract too much negative attention. Then perhaps you click the ‘unfollow’ or even 'remove connection' button. That's how I feel when I see people posting jokes on LinkedIn - especially ones in...
Social media and lawyers may not seem a natural fit but this combination is beginning to prove profitable for those that have been early on the uptake. The way that lawyers use social media varies widely across the sector, from embracing everything, including Instagram and YouTube, to barely maintaining a single...
If you have a Twitter account, you’ll know that ‘cracking’ this micro-blogging platform isn’t as easy as you might think. The time between joy at gaining a small flurry of followers and realising that @KimKardashian has 59 million is short. And then there is the disappointment at, well, the quality of the...
I have just arrived in Rome for the annual IBA (International Bar Association) Conference which starts on Sunday. The event is expected to draw record numbers of attendees this year – probably topping 6,000. The weather is very warm, everyone's diaries are packed full of meetings, panel discussions and parties and of...
My local Oxfam shop, which had always seemed busy, closed down permanently recently. There was no link between this and the allegations of sexual misconduct against senior field workers in Haiti, but as a symbol it's striking. The alleged conduct in Haiti was repugnant, but the story as played out in...
If there was an obvious answer to this question then someone could no doubt make a fortune. Recent developments haven’t made this any clearer – as news broke this week that a tweet posted by a 16-year-old boy from Nevada has become the UK’s most retweeted of...
