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Scots Law News extends its social network
04 March 2011 08:34

It's almost two years since Scots Law News signed up to Twitter.  Having successfully avoided making any embarrassing tweets, we are now trying out Facebook with a Scots Law News page there too.

If we are honest, our principal aim in setting up the page is to store material that we might use when, as over the last month, your correspondents are too busy with other things to do much if any blawging.  So if you look at the page now, you'll find that we are tracking such matters as Mr Megrahi, human rights and their manifold implications for the Scottish legal system and curious cases in the Court of Session, as well as some beavers running amok on Tayside and the future of Stornoway black pudding.  We hope to blog on all these shortly.

We would welcome thoughts on the Facebook page and how it might interact most effectively with the blawg and the Twitter feed.

 

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WardblawG
07/03/2011 12:25:15
Dear Hector This is excellent news indeed. Wearing the hat of social media consultant, I would say that Facebook use with the legal profession appears to be much more prevalent in the States than in the UK. It is nevertheless a welcome step, particularly as many students will have a facebook account. Twitter appears to me still to be one of the best sources of interaction for the legal community and, therefore, it is also good to see the twitterfeed remaining in place with your twitter account. For further integration, there is a feature that allows for integration from a facebook page - see e.g. http://www.facebook.com/twitter/ Linkedin groups which are "open" also work rather well for social media interaction with professionals. Working with LawCloud in Edinburgh, we've managed to establish a moderately successful "Cloud for Lawyers" group discussing cloud computing for law firms in Scotland and England at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Cloud-Lawyers-3415186. So a group such as that may work well also. My main twitter updates on Scots Law continue to run through http://twitter.com/scotslawblog and am always happy to tweet or retweet relevant Scots Law news through that. Best wishes Gavin

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