The legal community struggles to figure out how to best deal with social media evidence, such as Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Pinterest.  Fortunately, bloggers have posted helpful articles, such as The Four Corners of Social Media and eDiscovery, How Hard is Authenticating Social Media?, The No Fly Zone of Producing An Entire Facebook Profile and Published cases involving social media evidence.For employment lawyers is Hot Off The Press - Today's New NLRB Social Media Guidance, from the Social Media Employment Law Blog.Tort and media lawyers will find How Should We Measure Damages for Defamation Over Social Media?  from Citizen Media Law Projectthought provoking. One of the best sources of current legal thought and theory is The Volokh Conspiracy, where several law professors post their publications in early form, such asCan A Judge Order Individuals to Consent to Facebook Disclosing Their Status Updates? by Professor Orin Kerr.

Lawyers have also discovered social media as a powerful marketing and networking tool.  Toward that end, Geek Law Blog suggests, A Few LinkedIn Tricks to Add Some Fun In Professional Networking; and Lexblog wonders, Do lawyers need Facebook marketing experts? They certainly should be aware of some significant changes which Facebook has just made, reported by Tech Crunch, to make administration of their pages easier, Facebook Chips Away At Marketing Providers By Adding Native Page Admin Roles and Scheduled Posts.However, when a lawyer creates a virtual presence in social media, they sacrifice a great deal of privacy.  Just how far one can go to preserve and protect their personal privacy is not yet clear; but the Arizona Bar recently recognized the struggle when, according to the ABA Journal, it concluded, Lawyers may use different names socially or when writing novels. Naturally, some industrious software developers have gone further than lawyers should, by creating an app raising concerns among security professionals, who posted, iOS app creates different personas on social networks.   

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