Archives for the 'Legal' Category
Yahoo Employees Back Their CEO
Yahoo had an all-hands (e.g., internal) meeting and some of the employees – like J-Strizzle — are blogging about it.
Very cool.
Sharing the CEO’s remarks at an internal meeting with the external world via your blog is probably well covered by the confidentiality clause in Yahoo’s code of ethics. My guess is this is a no [...]
Bloggers Let Texas State Rep Have It…
A couple weeks ago I mentioned a prefiled bill in the Texas Senate that would extend Texas libel laws to blogs. Bloggers have been attacking State Representative Vicki Truitt (R-Keller) ever since. They feel the bill is too broad and they let Truitt know that in no uncertain terms. This article appeared [...]
Top 10 Rules To Help Enterprise Bloggers Spend Less Time With Attorneys
CUNY’s school of journalism has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to develop an online guide to help educate bloggers, citizen journalists and others about legal risks so they can stay out of court.
Jeff Jarvis, head of interactive journalism at CUNY and author of the Buzzmachine blog, [...]
The .5 Second News Cycle & Who’s On Second?
Jeff Hunt and I taught Dr. Bill Cunningham’s class at UT B-school tonight. About 60 energetic MBA and law students filled the room, and we had a lively discussion around managing the intangible assets of a corporation, such as people, brand and reputation.
I had the chance to test some new research — “The .5 [...]
Walmart Saga Motivates Lawyers To Phone The Bloggers
I get to go nose-to-nose with some really good corporate lawyers who want to better understand what their bloggers and/or marketing and/or communications teams are planning to unleash on-line.
John Slafsky, a partner at Wilson Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosatti, the powerhouse law firm that represents Sun, Google, Netflicks and HP warned me early on that “as [...]
