Tag: social networking
In Relentless Pursuit of… Social Networking for PIs
In Relentless Pursuit of Social Networking… It’s been a little while since our last Editor’s Update so we wanted to check in and let you know what we’ve been up to and let you in on some of our recent projects in the past couple of weeks. If you have not discovered the power of [...]
Writing Your Way to Success as a Private Investigator
For the last decade I have been carefully applying a multi-pronged approach to building my own private investigation practice- which is not really all that different from working on any other type of service provider or consulting business. I have had incredible success following this simple strategy, which I massaged into in an easy to [...]
Service of Process via Facebook
Australian attorneys can now serve enforceable court documents by posting them on a defendant’s Facebook profile. An Australian Supreme Court judge ruled that lawyers could use the social networking site to serve court notices. Email and SMS text messages via mobile phone have been used before to serve Australian court documents, but the Aussie attorneys [...]
Newsgroups, Listserves, Bulletin Boards and Forums for Private Investigators
My friend Scott Olson of the National Institute of Bail Enforcement has always summed it up best: “If you are only advertising to clients in your immediate city, county or region then you are missing a nation full of clients.” While this would most certainly apply to your typical client in different states don’t forget [...]
Social Networking and Cyber-Crime
The internet is exploding into a social revolution. The fast paced growth has been primarily due to social networking sites and the exchange of personal information within these sites. Some examples of these sites are MySpace, Facebook, and Flicker. Just recently, a 16-year-old–youth from Southwest Florida was charged with cyber-stalking. The case of Joseph D. [...]
