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Happy 2010 and welcome to the January issue of Something Different!
Dallas Market
I welcomed the arrival of 2010 because it marked my re-entry into the Dallas market. I will now focus on recruiting all practice areas in the Dallas market while keeping my bankruptcy focus nationwide. I look forward to re-connecting with many Dallas contacts over the next few months.
The 6Ps of the Big 3™
If you read this newsletter during 2009, you might remember reading about a program I designed last year, The 6Ps of the Big 3™: Using Social Networking Sites in Your Job Search. I am currently finishing two books based on The 6Ps of the Big 3™: Using Social Networking Sites in Your Job Search. One book is for attorney job seekers, including law students, and the other is for law firm recruiters and hiring personnel. Both books are scheduled for release in 2010. However, you get a preview in this issue of Something Different. Privacy is one of the 6Ps and the article below discusses privacy settings for posted and tagged pictures on Facebook (one of the Big 3 social networking sites).
Something Different
Finally, for your dose of something different this month, here's an article comparing the various Outlook management tools. I know many people resolve to be more organized with their inboxes at the beginning of a new calendar year. I've been using the tool Xobni (the free version) for the past few months. I love how it pulls the sender's picture from the sender's Facebook or LinkedIn profile -- there's definitely a benefit to putting a face with one of the many names in my inbox.
Law students, here's an extra dose of something different ... a recent article outlining 7 ways to save money when purchasing law school books.
I hope 2010 is off to a great start for you! As always, I welcome your comments and questions.
Amanda
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Where's Amanda?INK |
January 20, 2010 - Association of Consumer Credit Counseling Agencies Mid-Winter Conference in Orlando, FL presenting Social Networking is Here to Stay
January 29-31, 2010 - Centenary College of Louisiana attending Alumni Weekend
February 19, 2010 - Texas Women Lawyers 2010 Annual CLE in Houston, TX moderating The Art of Client Identification & Retention
March 12-16, 2010 - attending SXSW Interactive in Austin, TX
April 28-May 1, 2010 - attending NALP 2010 Annual Education Conference in San Juan, PR
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Privacy Settings for Lawyers' Facebook Pictures
by Amanda C. Ellis, Esq. |
NOTE: This article is excerpted, in part, from my forthcoming books based on The 6Ps of the Big 3™. This material may not be reproduced, republished or redistributed in whole or in part without the expressed written permission of Amanda Ellis Legal Search.
As lawyers and law students return to work and school following
the holiday break, many will share holiday pictures on their Facebook
pages. Job seekers as well as practicing
attorneys should be aware of certain Facebook privacy settings to prevent unwanted
pictures from reaching the eyes of potential employers, hiring authorities or
clients. Consider the following
scenarios:
Scenario A - Aspen
photos you posted wearing PJs and no make-up: You and your family went to Aspen over the holiday
break and you posted the pictures on your Facebook page. You are currently searching for job and many
of your Facebook friends are also lawyers, including hiring partners and law
firm recruiters. You don't want
potential employers or hiring authorities to see some of the pictures (or, you're
a practicing attorney and don't want colleagues, clients and potential clients
to see the pictures). The pictures are
not incriminating; you just prefer that certain people not see what you look
like without makeup, drinking coffee in your pajamas. How can you prevent the world or even certain Facebook friends from seeing these pictures?
Scenario B -
Tagged hot tub bikini photo from Aspen vacation: Your brother's family accompanied you to
Aspen over holiday break. Your crazy
brother posted some pictures on Facebook and tagged you in a hot tub picture where you are wearing a bikini. You didn't
post the picture; he posted the picture and tagged or labeled you and the
picture now appears on your Facebook page. You are outraged because you don't want all of your Facebook friends - especially potential employers (or, clients) - to see you wearing a bikini. How can you control who sees it?
The 4 Privacy Levels
Good news! You can control the visibility of
the pictures in both scenarios; you can prevent the entire world from seeing
them and you can even choose which Facebook friends can see the pictures. You should be familiar with the four general
privacy settings on Facebook:
Everyone (meaning everyone in the world even if they aren't on Facebook!); Friends of Friends (your Facebook friends and their friends even if you
aren't friends with your friends' friends); Only Friends (only your Facebook friends); and Customize (you name specific friends or groups of friends who
can or can't have access).
These four settings apply to pictures
you post on Facebook (Scenario A) as well as to pictures in which you are
tagged (Scenario B).
At a minimum, you should check the settings on your Facebook photo albums so you know who has access to your pictures. The section below, Controlling Privacy on Photo Albums, outlines the steps for checking your settings.
Personally, I set all of my photo
albums (pictures I posted) to Only
Friends and each time I post a new album I set the privacy level at Only Friends. For a situation like
Scenario A (Aspen holiday photos, PJs, no makeup), I would tighten the Only
Friends setting and Customize so
that only certain Facebook friends could see the album.
Customize with Friends Lists
How do you customize your settings so only certain friends can see your pictures? First, you must understand the friends list feature. The Facebook friends list feature allows you to categorize
your friends and then share information, including permission to see your
photos, to certain categories of friends.
For example, an attorney job seeker might divide his Facebook friends
into the following categories:
- Family;
- Childhood friends;
- College friends;
- Law school friends;
- Lawyer friends;
- Book club friends;
- Former law firm colleagues;
- Current law firm colleagues;
- Law firm hiring
contacts;
- Referral sources;
- Clients; and
- Judges (assuming you don't live in Florida where judges are
prohibited from friending attorneys on Facebook).
To create a friends list:
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Select Friends
from the menu bar across the top of your Facebook home page
- Then,
click Create New List
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A
box will appear and you will be asked to Enter
Name of your list (i.e., family)
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Then,
select your friends that you wish to place in this category. You can click on their picture or begin
typing their name in the box that says Start
Typing Name.
Controlling Privacy on Photo Albums
Now that you are aware of the four privacy settings and how to place your Facebook friends in lists or categories, let's assume you want only your
Family list to view the Aspen pictures which you uploaded into an album labeled, Aspen Holiday 2009.
Place
your cursor on the Settings tab
in the menu bar across the top of your page and click
on Privacy Settings
The Privacy box will appear. Click
on Profile
Scroll
down to Photo Albums and click on Edit Settings
Find
the Aspen Holidays 2009 photo album.
Click
on the drop down menu of the "Who
can see this?" box. You will
see your 4 options: (1) Everyone (meaning everyone in the
world even if they aren't on Facebook); (2) Friends of Friends (your friends and their friends even if you
aren't friends with your friends' friends); (3) Only Friends (only your friends); and (4) Customize.
Click
Customize to limit the
visibility of the album to only your Family list; a new box, Edit Photo Album Privacy, should appear.
Click
on Some Friends and start
typing the name of the list - Family.
Then select the Family list.
Your
album is now visible only to your Family list. Only your Facebook friends who are in your Family list can see your Aspen Holidays 2009 pictures.
If
you wanted a broader group of friends to see your photo album, you could
select multiple lists or you could choose to exclude the lists or people
you don't want to view the album.
To exclude a few friends (or lists) from viewing the album, go to Except These People (in the Edit Photo Album Privacy box above) and type the
names of your friends or the lists you don't want viewing the selected
album.
Now, you know how to handle Scenario
A - you can post pictures and share them with only a few friends to prevent certain personal pictures from reaching the eyes of potential employers (or, clients).
Controlling Privacy on Tagged Photos
What about Scenario B where another Facebook
user tags you in a picture and that picture appears in your profile? You can't
prevent another user from tagging you but you can prevent the tagged pictures
from appearing in your profile.
The steps for changing your tagged
settings are similar to those for changing the settings on your photo
albums. The only
difference between pictures you post and pictures in which you are tagged (but
didn't post) is that your tagged setting applies to all tagged pictures in
which you appear. The settings for
pictures you post are determined on an album-by-album basis so some can be more
restrictive than others.
- Place
your cursor on the Settings tab
in the menu bar across the top of your page and click on Privacy Settings.
The Privacy box will appear. Click
on Profile
Scroll
down to Photos & Videos of Me and click the drop down menu to see your
options.
You
have the same four options: (1) Everyone; (2) Friends of Friends; (3) Only
Friends; and (4) Customize.
Consider the option Only Me if you want the most protection. At this level, your tagged photos will never be visible to friends on your profile page.
However, many Facebook
users like for their friends to see the tagged pictures, too - they just
don't want the entire world or Facebook world to see them. For a privacy option in between, choose Specific People. You can enter specific friends or lists that
you would like to see your tagged pictures.
- BONUS: If you want the ability to screen all tagged photos, consider selecting the Only Me privacy level. Then, if you are tagged in photos which you want to share with friends, save the photos and post them to one of your Facebook albums where you can control who sees each picture.
Now you're equipped with the privacy tools to
handle both Scenarios A and B. You can enjoy the benefits of engaging with a variety of friends on Facebook, including colleagues, clients or potential employers, without worrying about embarrassing pictures surfacing.
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| ABOUT US |
 Amanda Ellis Legal Search was founded by Amanda C. Ellis, a former practicing bankruptcy attorney and an accomplished attorney recruiter. Amanda was previously with Special Counsel, the largest provider of legal staffing services to corporate legal departments and law firms nationwide, where she was the top producer for direct hire attorney placements. Amanda formed Amanda Ellis Legal Search to implement a focused approach to legal recruiting. Amanda Ellis Legal Search focuses on the placement of bankruptcy attorneys in law firms nationwide and, as of January 2010, on the placement of all attorneys in Dallas, Texas.
Inspired by the idea of doing something different or new each month in 2009, Amanda Ellis Legal Search launched Something Different in January 2009. The monthly newsletter outlines a new or different service or resource available to legal professionals in each issue. The newsletter often covers topics on social networking (still new and different to many attorneys) and how attorneys can incorporate social networking in their job searches or business development. In addition to writing about social networking in Something Different, Amanda frequently speaks to law schools and law firms about incorporating social networking in job searches and business development. In 2009, Amanda created The 6Ps of the Big 3™: Using Social Networking Sites in Your Job Search
and presented the program to lawyers, law firm recruiters and law students in
California, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey and New York. Amanda is finalizing two books based on The 6Ps of the Big 3™and scheduled for release in 2010.
Contact Amanda:
www.aellislegal.com
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This material may not be reproduced, republished or redistributed in whole or in part
without the expressed written permission of Amanda Ellis Legal Search.
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