The ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco
I am back from presenting on social media issues and the workplace at the ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco. I offered my insights on the need for social media policies at workplaces, after a lively presentation by famous mommy blogger Heather Armstrong, who was “dooced” after anonymously blogging about her boss. The third member of the panel was Minnesota IP attorney Ken Kunkle who enlightened the audience on copyright and trademark concerns surrounding social media. It was a fun legal presentation, on a very timely issue facing many employers today.
The three of us met at the W Hotel for breakfast before the presentation. Heather Armstrong is engaging, very personable, and very tall! Ken Kunkle is one of the brightest IP attorneys I know, and a really nice guy.
ABA On-Line did a great job of summarizing the points I made during my presentation, to encourage employers to adopt a social media policy to fit their workplace. The ABA linked to a study which reported only about 30% of American workplaces report having a social media policy. Informing employees about workplace expectations is a basic mantra of our firm, in addition to making employees aware of the consequences for violating workplace policies.
