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Social Media Gurus 'Can't Believe They're Still Getting Away With This'

By Bruce Carton

I wrestled for a few minutes over whether to focus this final post of the day on Ken of Popehat's body slam of the Legal Internet Consultant who way-too-aggressively sought to build Ken a legal website; or on Brian Tannebaum's use of an article in the UK's Daily Telegraph to fuel his running assault on the uselessness of social media gurus for lawyers. I decided to go with Tannebaum, so buckle up. Tannebaum says he awoke to find, to his considerable glee, "the greatest article I've ever read on the fraud that is the social media guru." The article by Milo Yannopolous takes a look at the "social media gurus, a rag-tag crew of blood-sucking hucksters who are infesting companies of all sizes, on both sides of the Atlantic, blagging their way into consultancy roles and siphoning off valuable recession-era marketing spend to feed their comic book addictions." So you can see where Yannopolous is going with this, and oh does he ever go there. Yannopolous ties his attack to a conference attended by about 200 such "oddballs" (who he describes as a "mixture of chippy girls with unruly fringes and sweaty, overweight blokes with bits of burger stuck in...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on November 23, 2010 (boomark / email).