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Social Media Evolves Even More

In business today, companies are creating blogs, web-sites, twitter accounts, and so on. This new media platform has many advantages and disadvantages. Consumers, clients, staff, or anyone really can blog about anything. The legal department of most businesses are usually concerned about the brand of their business. Laws and regulations about social media content can be hard to filter if they even exist at all. Laws are not clear on how to handle most of these sites and as business owner's and CEO's try to regulate social media sites, consultants are often times hired to come in and evaluate the situation.

This article by Elizabeth Hannan demonstrates 7 steps on creating an amicable relationship between a companies law department and social media

http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/136644