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LinkedIn being wrongly dissed in legal community

By Kevin OKeefe

Some folks in the legal marketing circles started a legal marketing LinkedIn group last week. It took off. Hundreds of members within a few days. Wow, I'm thinking law firms are seeing the light. Wrong. Legal marketing professionals, tethered to the past like a ball and chain and always skeptical about things they don't understand start dismissing LinkedIn and other forms of social networking as tools of little, if any value, to lawyers looking to market their services. Here's just a sample from the nay-sayers. The "buzz" on LinkedIn and social networking makes me remember the dot-com boom and cheers for Nasdaq 5000, and look how well that worked out.Only 7% of lawyers rate LinkedIn as "very helpful" from a professional and or social networking perspective...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on February 29, 2008 (boomark / email).