Facing a Digital Dilemma
by on May 31, 2011
There’s been a major digital dilemma on my mind these days.
No, it isn’t the latest Google acquisition, a Facebook privacy issue, or the soul-searching question of, “to tweet or not to tweet?”
My digital dilemma is social media and the law.
Recently, I attended a small conference solely for the purpose of networking and snooping on how speakers were presenting social media to small businesses just getting their feet wet in the digital ocean. I stumbled into a workshop on social media and the law that featured a panel of NYC-based lawyers who specialized in the subject. I quickly went from observer to student as my notebook pages filled up with legal jargon that affected my own company.
As a writer and marketing professional, law is certainly not my specialty or even my area of interest. But I began to do my own research on social media and the law and feel that this is a serious issue that many businesses are ignoring and therefore leaving themselves v...




