How I would teach lawyers to use Twitter?

I just shared statistics on how fast Twitter usage is growing. 15% of Americans are using Twitter with 8% using it daily. Those numbers double those of last year, and quadruple the year before.

Twitter is not just for idle chit chat, but it is becoming a key medium for how we receive news and information as well as build relationships.

Made me wonder how many lawyers even understand how to use Twitter. Or how many marketing professionals in law firms charged with what can be an impossible task drafting social media policies, social media plans, and teaching lawyers all about social media are even equipped to help the lawyers on Twitter, assuming they knew how to use Twitter.

For many of us lawyers we just started trying this Twitter thing, as confusing as it was. Whether we were doing it... [via LexBlog Kevin]