Social media doesn't just mean Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Discover lesser-known platforms and how they can add to your professional development and communications with current and prospective clients and colleagues. This session will touch on services including Pinterest, Google+, Wordpress, Tumblr, FourSquare, Yelp, Waze, Flickr, Instagram, MySpace, Spotify, and more!
State Bar of Michigan, Lansing, MI
As the Communications Specialist for the State Bar of Michigan, Samantha Meinke created and manages a social media strategy that has made her bar association a leader at building and initiating action within its online communities. In demand as a speaker and consultant, she advises attorneys and legal entities on how to maximize their online impact. She began her career by reaching target audiences and markets as a newspaper and custom publications reporter, blogger, and a social media marketing pioneer.
Legal Ease Consulting, Inc.
Allison C. Shields is the President of Legal Ease Consulting, Inc., which offers marketing, social media, practice management, business development productivity, and client service consulting services to law firms. She is the co-author of two books released in 2012 by the ABA Law Practice Management Section: LinkedIn in One Hour for Lawyers and Facebook in One Hour for Lawyers. She writes and lectures frequently on practice management, marketing and social media topics for bar associations, legal organizations and on her blog, LegalEaseConsulting.com and website, LawyerMeltdown.com