Facebook for Lawyers

Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian amy.burchfield@law.csuohio.edu | March 07, 2008 - 07:57

Niche social networking sites have been popping up on the web in increasing numbers. The doctors have Sermo, the teachers have TeachAde and the journalists have Wired Journalists – to name only a few.

Lawyers don’t have to feel left out – there’s LawLink, which bills itself as “the first online network exclusively for lawyers.” One interesting spin on the social networking model is that this month LawLink is slated to launch LawDocs, an application that allows you to upload, share, and download legal documents. Another feature of LawLink is a classifieds section for job postings.

Of course, you can always create your own social network for anything you’d like at Ning.

Niche Social Networks [Reply]

Richard | 08/03/2008, 21:55

I think the growth will be in the use of smaller, more focused, niche social networks that cater to a particular interest, hobby or vocation. These smaller sites will allow like-minded individuals and groups to connect, exchange ideas and receive genuine and useful support.

These kinds of sites will also be attractive to advertisers as they get targeted demographics to spend their online advertising budgets on.

Thanks to sites such as ning, anyone can start a niche social network about anything. There's also a search engine to help find niche social networks that lists thousands of networks for a whole range of subjects, http://findasocialnetwork.com

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