Jesse Dill and and Charles Pautsch’s article “Court Cases Are Shaping Social Media” is a good follow up to the two recent cases involving Twitter and LinkedIn that we posted on recently. In their article, they explore how businesses need to begin protecting their social media interests now if social media is a big part of how they are doing business. Even if this isn’t a big part of how you do business today, it may be in the future.
Here’s a follow up to Friday’s post on Homeland Security’s monitoring of social media for potential threats. James Verrinder highlights the “Privacy Concerns Raised Over US Government Social Media Tracking.”
Once again, the Department of Homeland Security is being urged to increase its monitoring of Social Media sites for “threats”. Should you be worried about your privacy the next time you tweet or post to Facebook? Mark Hosenball examines the issue in “US Lawmakers Press for Internet Monitoring.”
You might think that Social Media might not be something you need to add to your already full plate as a trial lawyer. Todd Ruger’s article explains why “Trial Lawyers Should Be On Social Media.” He also references – and provides a link for – a recent article in the American Bar Association: “Social Media and the Modern Fact Finder.”
Here’s a great article on some of the issues in-house counsel should trouble spot in relation to their company and social media. There are both employee and intellectual property ramifications. Darin M Klemchuk’s article, “Protect the Company in the New Social Media World”, appeared in Texas Lawyer, but provides good basic advice.
As a follow up to yesterday’s post, the dispute over ownership of a Twitter account has referenced a similar Pennsylvania case over a LinkedIn account. The Pennsylvania case is similar in many respects and also calls into question who owns work-related Social Media interactions. Read the full article by Joe Palazzolo from The Wall Street Journal: “Before Dispute over Twitter Account, a Fight over LinkedIn.”
A comprehensive post on the new Social Media guidelines from the National Labor Relations Board.
By Sharlyn Lauby, “How New Labor Guidelines Could Affect Your Social Media Policy.”
Is your computer running slowly? It may be because of a visit to a social media site and could be a wake up call that your entire network might be at risk. Here’s an article that looks at the results of a new global survey on corporate social media security.
Websense, “Social Media Helps Business, but Real-Time Content Protection is Needed.”
For those interested in social media, here is a list of groups we located on LinkedIn. Note that this is not an endorsement of any, as we just joined, but thought you might be interested.
*Future Social Media
*Social Media Today
*Social Media Marketing
*Interactive & Digital Media
*Intelligent Social Media
*Social Media Club
*ThoseinMedia
*Transformational Media
*Social Entertainment Professionals