One of the most popular pieces of Web 3.0 technology available today is Dropbox.  With this bad boy, you no longer have a single excuse to avoid backing up your files.  Everyone dreads the day when their computer flashes that permanent blue or black screen and they realize, “Oh no, my files are gone!”  Dropbox [...]

When to use Google \/\/ave There are tons of ways to use Google Wave–here are just a few examples to get you thinking and an overview video that shows Google Wave in action. Organizing events Keep a single copy of ideas, suggested itinerary, menu and RSVPs, rather than using many different tools. Use gadgets to [...]

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Social Media Law Student has stumbled upon a resource that can be very useful; a free PDF-to-Word Converter. Nitro PDF, Inc. created a remarkable tool that converts PDF files to .DOC or .RTF files. As someone that constantly cuts and pastes from other outlines, I can’t stress to you how much formatting time this saves [...]

Are you a content hoarder? Do you love to check updates for your favorite blogs and news sources every single second of the day? Did you integrate your RSS feed to your phone? It’s okay…we do it too. We’re multi-taskers too. We can’t sit still for very long without thinking 8 things we should be [...]

We are calling law students* to contribute to this blog for the following reasons: 1 – No one knows everything about social media or legal technology. No single person is an “expert”. 2 – The law students of my generation, like those who came before them, are amazing and profound people who have a lot [...]

The LegalTech® West Coast 2009 Conference kicks off on June 24-25 in Los Angeles, California.  Legal technology industry leaders will be on hand giving presentations about how new technologies are shaping the legal profession. LegalTech® provides an in-depth look at what the technological world has in store for the legal profession and will offer an [...]

Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application offered by Google.  It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users.  This may be a good way for legal professionals to collaborate on a project more efficiently.  Below is a YouTube video, by Common [...]

Social Media Law Student blog presents:  All Things ABA TECHSHOW 2009!  Over the next three days, we will live blog all things tech show and post them here.  From pictures, video clips, and guest posts we will chronicle the 2009 ABA TECHSHOW as it happens and update our posts within the hour.  Here’s day three: [...]