A podcast about all things tech in law school.

This week, we were our own special guests.  John, Debbie, and Ben provided wrap ups for this year’s most important technological innovations for law schools and speculated about what’s on the horizon for 2011.  And, of course, we also featured this week’s Law Students Tweeting Badly.

No links this week, but check out our live Tweet stream (hashtag #lstechtalk).

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Our regular panelists celebrate the end of 2010 – and the end of another law school semester – with this year’s final show.

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Date: Monday, December 13, 2010

Time: 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM EST

In this week’s episode, we discussed Google TV, yet more law students behaving badly on Twitter, why law schools need to pay attention to their social media reputations, and talked with special guest Rich McCue of the University of Victoria about how to save money – and the planet – with innovative green IT projects.

This week’s links:

• Google TV
• University of Victoria Law
• Rich’s Random Thoughts – Rich’s blog
• The Greening of Law School IT – notes from Rich’s talk at CALI 2010.
• Kill A Watt – use this device to see how much electricity your favorite appliances are using

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We’re talking with our first international guest for episode 7: Rich McCue, System Administrator at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law in Canada. We’re especially looking forward to his take on UVic’s recent green initiatives.

Date: Monday, November 15, 2010
Time: 12 pm EST

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In this week’s podcast, we discussed SSRN’s new print-on-demand service, discussed Touro Law School’s Social Media Day of Giving, examined this week’s Law Students Behaving Badly Tweet, and interviewed Doug Edmunds, Assistant Dean of IT at University of North Carolina School of Law.

This week’s links:

SSRN to Sell Hard Copies of Papers for $9.99 (With $0 Paid to Authors)
SSRN, WTF?
SSRN To Offer Hard Copy Services
What’s going on at SSRN?

Day of Giving Long Island

Google’s “20 Percent Time” in Action

Doug’s band

Law School Tech Talk – Episode 6: Doug Edmunds [ 0:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1066)

Doug Edmunds, Assistant Dean of IT at University of North Carolina School of Law, will be our special guest.

From Doug’s UNC staff bio:

Before becoming the Assistant Dean for IT at the law school, Doug spent 10 years working in technology at UNC’s School of Education. There he honed his skills in the areas of hardware and software support, networking, distance education, and web development, among other things. He enjoys working collaboratively with people on solutions to their IT-related needs, and he prides himself on being a strong communicator and skilled facilitator for large, complex team-based initiatives, as technology projects so often are.

Date:                     Monday, October 25, 2010
Time:                     12:00 PM – 12:40 PM EDT
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This week’s episode featured lawyer and social media expert Nichole Black (NY Law Blog and Law Tech Talk).  In this podcast, we discussed Chrome OS, law students Tweeting badly (the building’s on fire?), as well as legal ethics, cloud computing, and the implications for the practice of law.

Note: the sound is a little scratchy.

This week’s links from the podcast:

• Hexxeh (and the Hexxeh Chrome builds).
• Google Tech User Groups (and a directory)
• ABA call for comments on legal ethics and cloud computing
• 1999 ABA opinion on email and client privacy
• Recent regulations from Massachusetts on data protection
• Information about cross-boarder data issues
• NYT story on lawyers, judges and social media gaffes

Law School Tech Talk - Episode 5: Niki Black [ 47:58 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2683)

Nicole Black, of counsel to Fiandach & Fiandach and founder of lawtechTalk, will join us on Wednesday. Niki’s been profiled as an ABA Legal Rebel. She’s co-authored two books – Social Media for Lawyers: the Next Frontier and Criminal Law in New York.  She is is currently writing Cloud Computing for Lawyers (to be published by the ABA in late 2010).

She’s a “lawyer, author, speaker; legal tech evangelist; fascinated by potential of the Cloud; Apple junkie; tennis lover; foodie; wino.” And she’s on Twitter, too: (http://twitter.com/nikiblack).  With so many interests, who knows where the conversation will lead us? But one topic of conversation will probably be privacy issues involved in cloud computing. It’s sure to be a great show.

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We decided to take a break from Toms.  This week, we asked Jamie Butler, Director of IT at UC Davis School of Law, to talk to us about digital signage and other fun issues.  This week’s podcast also featured a lively discussion about libraries using Netflix and the T.E.A.C.H. act, using the C-SPAN video library in law classes, and the latest less-than-professional student Tweets.

This week’s links:

• Using Netflix at an Academic Library – a TTW Guest Post by Rebecca Fitzgerald (via Teknoids)
• Academic Libraries Add Netflix Subscriptions (Chronicle of Higher Education via Teknoids)
• New copyright regulations from the LoC
• Guide to the TEACH Act – University System of Georgia
• C-SPAN video library

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Date:                     Monday, September 27, 2010
Time:                     12:30 – 1:10 PM EDT

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We ran out of Toms to talk to. So this week will feature special guest Jamie Butler, Director of IT at UC Davis School of Law, who we consider one of the “new” generation of IT people in law school. Should be a great show. From his biography:

Jamie Butler  joined UC Davis in 2006 after serving as the Manager of Information Technology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He earned a BS in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and MBA at UC Davis Graduate School of Management. Jamie is a strong believer in utilizing technology to solve real business and educational problems, striving to effectively use technology to make life easier.

Law School Tech Talk is a bi-weekly podcast about all things technology in law school. David Dickens, IT guy at Pepperdine Law is the host of Law School Tech Talk. And we’re covering law school technology from all angles with our co-hosts and regular contributors: Jonathan Ezor — our resident law prof, Debbie Ginsberg — law librarian technologist, and Ben Chapman — another veteran IT guy.