Recently, I ran into this article written by Molly McDonough of the ABA Journal, on Internet Geek Attorney Bob Ambrogi’s 16 Reasons lawyers should use Twitter.
The one point I whole heartedly agreed on that Ms McDonough reported, and I assume Mr Ambrogi wrote, was on Image…
Mold your image: Those who post regularly to Twitter provide others a glimpse of their daily lives. That glimpse can help shape your public image. Do your posts paint you as a high-powered professional — now writing an appellate brief, now preparing for a deposition — or as a trivia-obsessed slacker, now breaking for lunch, now off for drinks? By thinking before you post, you can shape how others see you.
I think if more people would take an attorney’s advice about how to use Twitter they would improve their image 100%..OK, for the tweeters who post about a zillion posts a minute, it will improve your image a trillion %.