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If social media can change the world, how can it not impact your law firm?

By Kevin O'Keefe

David Rubenstein, Co-Founder of The Carlyle Group, one of the world?s largest private equity firms, speaking in Berlin this morning, identified three great unknowns likely to effect the global financial community. They are: the effect of the Mideast unrest, the debt problems in the United States and social media sites like Twitter and Facebook. Yes, you heard right. Social media. Rubenstein, as reported by The New York Times' Rhea Wessel predicted social media will change the industry ? he just doesn?t know how. We don?t know the impact of social media on private equity. But it?s very hard to believe that the Facebook revolution can change the world and not impact private equity. Private equity cannot operate isolated. I think there will be some impact of social networking on private equity, but I just don?t know what it will be this year...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on March 01, 2011 (boomark / email).