Posts under ‘twitter’

In days gone by a public scandal would have us going out into the street to vocalise our discontent, visit our MP, sign a petition, publish leaflets to spread the word. The phone hacking scandal has raised more than a few eyebrows and, on Wednesday, Cameron said he wants an inquiry. The story has gradually [...]

Tweet ups are when we take our online relationships offline and meet the faces behind the avatars. There is an appetite for more regular tweet ups so, later in this blog, I’ll mention some ideas for a trial run of regular London tweet ups. @Legalaware who was very quick off the mark reporting the recent [...]

How safe is your twitter account username? Today I discovered that Twitter transferred the account #girlgeeks to the trade mark owner of the name even though the latter had only registered a logo mark incorporating the words (see image) a year ago.  A logo mark does not give exclusive rights over the word mark. What’s [...]

Since the outbreak of the Egyptian revolution on January 25th of this year there has been speculation concerning the role social media played in causing the revolution. Once again social media seems to have a huge impact on social developments.  In an earlier blog on our own site, I addressed how social media helped to [...]

Organising big events involving members of the public from all over the world has been transformed by social media. In particular social media has become a powerful tool for organising protests and broadcasting responses to government policies. Discussing the student protests with my daughter who is currently in year 2 at University, I thought it [...]

Now, with the availability of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, employers can learn a lot more about potential employees than was previously possible. Whilst before, a resume and references were the critical ways to screen candidates, now employers can find out a lot more about people they are thinking of hiring simply by [...]

Social media for the legal profession This is part 2 of the blog post ‘Would the Zappos Social Media Policy be Right for you?’ which I began yesterday.  As mentioned there I want to briefly touch on some of the issues law firms may want to bear in mind when devising their social media policies. [...]

Jon Bloor over at the Peninsula blog raises an interesting question about communicating your social media policy in contracts.  We would all do well to think about this subject regularly because social media is in its early stages, meaning that the policies we may adopt today may not be the ones we would want to [...]

Pondering whether to progress my book writing project by self publishing, or finding a traditional publisher, I came across Seth Godin’s Advice for Authors.  Sound advice indeed.  After further surfing and reading I gained more insight into the book writing business, and the upshot is that I have decided to write my book by blogging [...]

I think it’s worth looking at what has happened here given the allegations of defamation. It all started when I posted a tweet on Twitter mentioning that 3 clients had received CTMFS’ ‘invoices’. Ending with the word ‘scams’. If Mr Evans’ intention was to stop the use of the word ‘scam’ in relation to the [...]