How much do you know about RSS feeds?  Do you use them to pass your knowledge-based marketing to clients, to pull in current awareness to your fee earners, or to keep yourself informed about the latest developments in information and knowledge management? 

Or do you wish you knew more?

Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Martindale Hubbell Connected, Legal OnRamp.  Few law firms can afford the time and resources necessary to have an active presence on all of these networking sites, so if a firm has to choose one, which should it be?

Type a popular name into Google and you will find that a LinkedIn entry will rank highly.  LinkedIn currently has over 55 million members in over 200 countries and territories around the world .  840,000 lawyers have profiles , there are 3 million members in UK  and LinkedIn claims that 1 in 3 professionals in London is a member .  A new member joins every second and half of all members are outside USA .   In its review of social networking sites, Legal Week called LinkedIn “The place to devote your efforts” .