regardless of your view of twitter and whether you use twitter or not there
is one very good very beneficial very powerful aspect of twitter that you can put to good use
and that is for research purposes and you do that by using the lists feature so i create a list of
let's say i'm interested in the law i'm interested in changes in the law i'm interested in changes
in legislation i'm interested in new cases new decisions i'm interested in bills in developments
in modifications to existing statutes law and so on i'm interested obviously in decisions from the
circuit court high court supreme court and so forth i have a list though i create a list in
twitter of accounts that i follow and in that list it will be solicitors it'll be
barristers it'll be the likes of the wrc it could be the law reform commission it could be other
relevant bodies that will be tweeting about the law changes in the law new decisions and so on
and in that list they are the only tweets that come up in the list
so when i refer then or check into twitter rather than wading through a whole morass of nonsense
about trending topics and political events of the day and sport and so on i go to that list
and it will keep me abreast of any changes any developments in the law but not only that there's
another huge benefit to it and that is that a lot of the top firms have twitter accounts
and they have associate solicitors carrying out research and doing blog posts and publishing
content developments in law developments in you know the new bill for example in
respect of working from home under the right to request to work from home and so on a lot
of the big firms have a lot of associates of legal executive secretaries they have
interns and paralegals and so on and they are producing very good very well researched
blog posts and so forth again all of these end up in my list so that when i go in to check my list
and twitter my law stroke legal list in twitter i'm completely kept abreast of every development
in the irish legal landscape or in business or whatever i choose to put into that list
so that is how i use this in twitter i use it for research it's very very good because once i see a
change then i can actually take what somebody has done some of the big firms have done they've done
a very extensive research piece for example on a new law that's coming in and the changes are
that's that's going to bring about implications for employers employees or whatever it is
i can then have a look at that blog post or that piece of research and i can write my own blog post
my own sort of piece of content and publish it on my website but i'll be doing it in my words my way
paraphrasing it and explaining in plain language as i do
the implications of the particular change or implications of a particular decision or whatever
i don't have to be threatened too much though because from one day to the next or from one week
to the next i can simply dip into my list check through the tweets remember they're all relevant
tweets to do with law or business or whatever it is i'm interested in check through them all
sees or anything of real value or real interest sees there anything that i want to run with and
take and paraphrase make a blog post myself put my own spin on it put it into my own words
communicate with my people my fans my followers then that's the benefit of twitter so even though
some people will say that it's a sewer and it's a cesspool and it's this that and the other it's
a fantastic tool for research if you use it properly and if you harness it correctly and
the way to do that is lists create lists of stuff that you want to keep an eye on relevant stuff now
whether you're self-employed like i am like a solicitor or if you're an accountant or if you are
into nails or into whatever you may be a student you may be involved very
heavily in a career and be very concerned about career development and so on again the same
principle applies you can use twitter lists to do the research for you because remember
there are people out there publishing fantastic pieces fantastic blog posts fantastic tweets
about the very thing that might interest you and as i say you have a tool there
for free remember you can get a twitter account for free and it's going to deliver these tweets
these well-researched pieces directly to your list and you can just go through your list then
every few days or once a week and you can take it and run with it and put your own spin on a
particular decision or a particular development or whatever hope you find this video useful if you do
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