The Re Tweek

A selection of law week’s notable tweets:

• Will Law Firm Technology Budgets Be Decimated in 2009? Discuss – http://bit.ly/plKG
  
  
• Recession Batters Law Firms http://tinyurl.com/dbqknr
  
  
• Hard Times Cut Into Free Labor by Convicts http://tinyurl.com/aoqwq2
  
  
• How Twitter Can Make You A Better (and Happier) Person (from Tony Hsieh – CEO, Zappos.com): http://bit.ly/twitterbetter
  
  
• Can We Lawyers Just Shut Up About Twitter And Tweet? http://mylawlicense.com
  
  
• Lawyrs Looking for Alternative Social Networks http://tinyurl.com/ctgzmn
  
  
• Are you reading these posts? Today’s list appears in new blog tracking law biz dev and marketing posts: http://bit.ly/EXN4
  
  
• PowerPoint on Social Media for Lawyers from Doug Jasinski: http://is.gd/h59A
  
  
• UK law firm layoffs at Linklaters, Baker: http://tinyurl.com/bpsuga
  
  
• Nice bit of writing: “3 Ways Tech helps” http://is.gd/gUW7
  
  
• Philly Inquirer has been live-blogging every day of State Sen Fumo’s trial… http://tinyurl.com/cscvt8
  
  
• “Now what are you going to do?” http://bit.ly/y2sn
  
  
• Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia, new officially on Twitter http://twitter.com/d_medvedev
  
  
• For updates/roundup of Am Law 100 law firm financial results, go to http://tinyurl.com/as8fxr
  
  
• Law Firms “Cutting pay, not workers” – http://is.gd/gPL6
  
  
• “Like going from Xbox to Atari”: Staff Finds White House in the Tech Dark Ages http://tinyurl.com/akzwx8
  
  
• Obama starts keeping campaign promises on day one: http://bit.ly/B8Wh
  
  
• Executive Orders now posted on wh.gov: http://snipurl.com/aij34
  
  
• Cooley cuts 52 lawyers and 62 staff. Ouch. http://bit.ly/DN8r
  
  
• The 24/7 Wall St. Twenty-Five Best Financial Blogs. http://tinyurl.com/c8cyf8
  
  
• Is Twitter the future or is it a Predictor of the Future? http://is.gd/gLpd
  
  
• Most popular blog post on lawyer blogging of week: Six ways to make people follow your blog & Twitter feed http://is.gd/gh6n
  
  
• Note to Marketing: find prez candidate using our product, create national intrigue around use of said product, make $$$: http://bit.ly/vucq
  
  
• Cassels Brock & Blackwell cuts 38 staff, 7% of total workforce: http://tinyurl.com/a79r2y
  
  
• Good example of supplementing social media effort: http://tinyurl.com/6v7wby
  
  
• Question has changed from “does blog generate biz” to “does blog work”? Of course it “works” http://bit.ly/wm3
  
  
• Social media beats search engines for legal sites traffic: http://bit.ly/UMNU
  
  
• Skadden has joined the layoff clique: http://bit.ly/E2az
  
  
• New York Times Issues Social Networking Rules for Staffers http://tinyurl.com/8a5zxf
  
  
• Law layoffs continue: up to 80 jobs at risk in Denton Wilde Sapte UK offices: http://bit.ly/nsLu
  
  
• Tag Clouds of Obama’s Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush’s http://bit.ly/16J2W
  
  
• Another interesting anti-billable-hour post from Jay Shepherd. Not sure I agree w/all he says, but blog is a must read. http://bit.ly/12mAk
  
  
• Social Media allows direct communication http://is.gd/gt39
  
  
• Pete Seeger & Bruce Springsteen – “This Land is Your Land” – The Obama Inaugural Celebration Concert http://ff.im/-FVtk
  
  
• Singapore Lawyer Blogger Dissident Publishing Again (via Practice Source): http://bit.ly/CJRJ

• Human Rights Lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Russian Journalist Killed http://twurl.nl/8zsxt1
  
  
• USTR 2008 Report on China WTO Compliance via Chinese Law Prof Blog: http://bit.ly/1MVr
  
  
• “Will Facebook be the death of Twitter?” Must admit I never thought of it that way: http://bit.ly/UsyM