Posts Tagged ‘social media’

The London riots brought chaos to the city for a few nights, and at times the looting and violence spread faster than news sites could keep track of them, leaving many to turn to social media for their source of news. Often TV coverage became unreliable, and the BBC played looping footage of past events, [...]

In the wake of the riots, which have spread throughout England, many are blaming social media as being the tool used to orchestrate the violence and destruction. We have previously written about the Student Protests and the revolution in Egypt, and the role social media played in each of these events. Now we have yet [...]

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 [...]

A Californian corporation has been contracted by the US Central Government to develop an “online persona management service”. Apparently, they want to detect terrorists and extremists overseas.  One way they intend to do this is by creating different online identities and manipulating social media sites and blog posts. The service being developed will allow one [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It is obviously easier and cheaper to prevent cybersquatting and name squatting by pre-emptively protecting your brand and blocking your trade marks from being used by others. For those who have missed the chance to register their business names with Facebook (see earlier post) the solution is to set up a Page and then register [...]

Phenomenal publicity was generated by the Facebook user name policy change last week.  There was a flurry of tweets about it on Twitter, and many lawyers raced to advise their clients of the importance of registering their trademarks at Facebook (at least in the sense of notifying Facebook of their registered rights so as to [...]