SociaLies

The battle over ownership of social media accounts continues between employers and former employees. In many professions, the individuals who are most subject to this ship jumping and employee pirating syndrome are well aware of and respectful of issues such as non-compete agreements, trade secrets,

Social media forensics resources

I always love passing by a road crew, to watch one person working while three watch. Having been the one person in the hole with a shovel actually doing some work, I thought I’d at least let you know I am at work on the next post here. I feel that may be particularly important [...]

How will the social media era transform the practice of law? How will lawyers, judges, and jurors deal with virtual reality and virtual worlds and we move from static data to Web 3.0 and beyond?

I'm Back to Work Writing on Social Media Ethics Issues for Lawyers, Judges, Jurors, and Others.

If we endow our systems, including machines, with ever greater knowledge and ability to adapt to accomplish their "mission," might we not find that we have created a system or machine which, like the Skynet of Terminator fame, determines that it is more capable of achieving its mission without us or

Maybe it is time for the wisdom of the crowds to take a shot at resolving the continuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Could social media be used to "plug the damn hole?" Could the use of social media be helpful in finding ways to more effectively remediate the damage the oil spill has and will c

This page is devoted to starting a formal catalogue of the social media best practices articles I have found to be most useful or insightful, in hopes of helping others find their way.

 I’ve been looking for an excuse to get back to blogging. Like many who write blogs, I had a little burn out and I had a feeling that the “white paper” type posts I was writing were at least a little more than the average blog reader wanted to wade through on a regular [...]