for the Forensic Expert Witness Association's Web 2.0 conference, 9/15/09

1. expert social media moves for
fewa web 2.0 conference
expert witnesses
denise howell
09.15.09 bagandbaggage.com

2. business
educational
commercial noncommercial
personal
sociologically and socioeconomically: efforts to
distinguish between arenas and contexts often fail

3. eschew social media if -
you’re engaged in criminal acts and
prone to be up-front about it...
you’re abrasive - people leave you
caustic voicemails? death or other
unpleasant threats?...
you’re likely to disclose privileged
communications...
you’re incapable of expressing yourself
in 140 characters or less...
you’re incapable of being consistent...

4. “Be careful what you
post on Facebook...”
decide how you’re going to
present your various selves online
Obama uses social media,
blends personal and professional,
and remains credible

5. ready to face your lolcats in court?

6. hot spots and implications
• security
• “identity hacking”
• your own worst enemy (defamation, IP infringement, fraud, spam; privilege
spills; credibility destruction)
• everyone, everything, everywhere + personal/professional blurring = more of
you to put under the microscope

7. the accidental hacker (there’s the other kind, too)
facebook.com/yournamehere -
no ICANN for social media

8. how many faces are you willing to support?

9. you can do plenty of damage without social media
confidentiality, ethics, legal obligations are cross-platform.
have simple policies+training. read eff’s blogging legal guide.

10. “expert social media moves
for expert witnesses”
q&a - discussion denise howell
bagandbaggage.com
slides at
http://www.slideshare.net/denisehowell

11. licensing and credits
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images thanks to the following flickr users and hugh macleod:
•emotion by joe shlabotnik
•sen. barack obama by SEIU International
•janus masks by gemsling
•theater masks by ekke vasli
•comics: lawyer dream, twitter, and where the money is by
hugh macleod, gapingvoid.com
•legal lolcats by various frazzled law students http://bit.ly/
wePUe