What is the deal with social media? What is Social Media for Lawyers? If you are a lawyer or attorney in today’s modern world of marketing and advertising and have not lived under a rock in the past 5 years of your life, you probably have some idea what social media is.

As a credible source of information about lawyer marketing, Wikipedia has defined Social Media as: Social media are primarily Internet and mobile-based tools for sharing and discussing information among human beings. Well according to that definition of Social Media, I think everything you and I do would be considered apart of that right? Well I think so!

This is a intro into a 3 part segment on Social Media for Lawyers that introduces: Twitter | Facebook | and LinkedIN as well as AVVO.

So what exactly are you looking for in this Segment for Social Media?

-This segment is not intended to be a ”we must all use” on social media.

-This will not be a waste of your valuable professional time or effort.

-It will not help you make millions with the above said Social Media tools for lawyers, but will increase your Social Media footpath.

-This segmented guide is here for you, to learn from, it is not intended to teach you every little aspect of Social Media, but will teach you what you need to know to make it worth your while.

What these segments will do.

This guide will teach you some basic social media strategies that will generate more clients for your firm. We will also share some “expert tricks” that will maximize the effectiveness of the available social media tools. Finally, we will briefly discuss some of the major pit-falls and time wasters of which to be weary. I have the constructed the segments with lawyers and attorneys in mind. While many of the  strategies discussed within have broader application, their effectiveness has been optimized for legal professionals and law firms.

Since the world of social media is broad and time consuming, and constantly expanding, we will focus on one social media marketing tool at a time. We have chosen to include those tools that we have found to be the most effective social media tools for lawyers. We understand that your professional time is extremely valuable to you. Therefore, we have broken down the information to the need to know activities that have proven most successful in my experience as a legal marketer.

Easy Legal Marketing is designed to assist you in your path to marketing for your law firm and this is guide is here to help you for free!

Check back at http://www.easylegalmarketing.com for more information about other Social Media avenues and updates. Features to additional tools will be periodically posted as well.

I constantly update our notes and opinions for lawyers marketing their services. Segment one will “Focus on Using Twitter For Legal Professionals“.