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SmallLaw: Have Social Networks Already Jumped the Shark?

By Mazyar Hedayat

Originally published on March 2, 2009 in our free SmallLaw newsletter. Happy Days was a great show ? it always had a happy ending but Fonzie provided an edge. But when the Fonz jumped over a great white shark wearing a bathing suit and leather jacket, I lost interest. So imagine my disappointment when I realized recently that social networking has jumped the shark in the legal profession. How can I tell? A number of telltale signs exist, but first let's review where we've been. The Rise and Rise of Social Networks ? Given their potential as tools for collaboration, information dissemination, and the creation of a knowledge-base, social networks should be a natural fit for lawyers; they certainly were for me. In 2000 I went around advocating intranets, extranets, even online discussion groups, to affect lawyer-to-lawyer collaboration...continue to full post

Full post as published by TechnoLawyer Blog on March 18, 2009 (boomark / email).

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