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Former GOP social media consultant George Alafoginis will join Facebook’s 2012 campaign team to focus on advertising efforts.

Alafoginis most recently worked for the consulting group New Media Strategies, where a pictorial bio describes him as a “crowd surfer” and a “jetsetter” who has celebrated two birthdays while at the firm. Alafoginis also previously worked for the Republican National Committee as deputy director for Online Strategy & Technology Deployment.

Facebook has launched a range of Election 2012 features, including a partnership with Politico, a presidential debate with NBC, and a politics webpage.

Facebook also conducted an analysis of reaction to this week’s State of the Union speech.

Human beings are social by nature, and not surprisingly, we choose to spend much of our talkative time on Facebook.

Comscore released data in December 2011 that showed Facebook is virtually synonymous with social media. Worldwide, people spend three out of every four minutes of their total social networking time on Facebook.

Establish clear commenting guidelines for your Facebook Page. When you do need to enforce these rules, publicly available guidelines will help subdue any arguments by fans and and minimize second-guessing by page admins.

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Justice Lehrmann stated to us that she sincerely shares our concerns about the shortcomings of the pro se forms and will be advocating our position to slow the process down. She said she was gratified that we offered insight and alternatives to resolve the larger issue at hand regarding access to the legal system by those who are truly indigent. She feels that the Supreme Court will be more receptive if they hear that we are not opposing the entire plan out of hand, and are open to incorporating and considering the work already started by the Task Force. She suggested that we ask the Supreme Court to suspend endorsement of the pro se forms for now, so that all of the stakeholders have the opportunity to further build on the common goal of assisting the indigent families.

Although the other eight justices are interested in Justice Lehrmann’s opinion as the duly appointed liaison to the Bar, this is certainly not a fait accompli. Justice Lehrmann suggested that when we address the State Bar on January 20th, the other Justices who are in attendance will need to be impressed by our willingness to work with the Forms Task Force Committee to come up with ideas regarding how to address the vast number of truly indigent citizens who cannot afford attorneys. She believes that if we adopt an accusatory tone and threaten to withdraw our financial donations to the Access to Justice Fund, we may well shoot ourselves in our collective foot.

Judge Lehrmann verified that The Task Force Committee’s work is paramount to Chief Justice Hecht and if he does not sincerely believe that we are interested in considering the work already put into the forms and building on those with all of the stakeholders at the table, he and the other seven non-family law Justices may well tune out the other serious concerns that we express regarding the endorsement of Pro Se Forms by the Supreme Court.

We have all acknowledged that there is undoubtedly a need to address the rising tide of self representation in the courts and the noble cause of providing legal assistance to the indigent. But without thoughtful oversight of the use of these forms, we are likely to see more irreparable harm done to the very people the Task Force set out to help. Many pro se litigants are illiterate or speak a different language. Others are abuse victims cowed into signing. Pro se litigants who have made use of forms have been dispossessed of their homes, retirement benefits, child support, and/or access to their children. This may be due to intimidation by the dominant spouse, or, simply not understanding they had other choices.

There are a plethora of other resources available for the indigent and the poor that help protect their fundamental property rights and right to receive appropriate child support, health care, and access to their children. We believe a better process is to bring these resources into the planning process to develop an integrated plan which will further guarantee that indigent families are assisted and protected.

Justice Lehrmann believes the best chance we have at halting this runaway train and getting a seat at the table is to take a cooperative approach in which the interests of all stakeholders are acknowledged and left open for full consideration.

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Nov. 3: Hillary Adams speaks with TODAY’s Matt Lauer about why she decided to post a disturbing video on YouTube that shows her father beating her when she was 16. Hillary’s mother, Hallie, says the video spotlights their family’s secret battle with addiction.

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