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BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK CITES SENSEI’S PRESIDENT SHARON D. NELSON

March 8, 2012

Bloomberg Businessweek says here’s the dilemma: You’re a Twitter power user. You nurture your feed, doling out little bon mots and sharing links to funny cat photos. Your follower count climbs to 1,000, then 10,000. You’re an influencer! All of a sudden, real life rears its ugly head. You’re run over by a bus, and your three children–all equally ambitious social media addicts–end up in a nasty feud over who deserves ownership of your carefully collected list of followers. Sharon Nelson, a lawyer and president of the legal technology firm Sensei Enterprises, says that although protecting digital assets is a new idea, it’s gaining importance quickly. “We are seeing people fight over digital assets in divorce,” she says, pointing to squabbles over who gets certain friends on Facebook and how to value a spouse’s Twitter account. “You only started hearing about it a year or two ago, but in another year or two, almost every lawyer will talk about it.”