Social Media Best Practices for Law Schools (Part 3)
May 11th, 2009 | By Laura Bergus | Category: Featured, Law School, Lead Article, Social Media
I had no idea when I started whining about bad advice involving Facebook horror stories that a few months later I would be offered a spot at a table with Harvard’s Berkman Center Co-director John Palfrey.
Palfrey will be leading a discussion at the annual conference of the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction, known as CALICON, in June at University of Colorado’s law school in Boulder. (Palfrey is also the conference’s keynote speaker.)
My law school’s assistant dean, Steve Langerud, and I were invited to join in the conversation and share our experience at the University of Iowa College of Law in creating a social media best practices plan. (See Berkman fellow Gene Koo’s blog post about the workshop.)
Thanks especially to Austin Groothuis at CALI for noticing Iowa Law’s project and to Gene Koo for connecting us with Berkman in this process.
The hope is for attendees to leave the conference with a working model for a social media plan that can be implemented across the country as early as this fall. I see the best case as schools setting up students, staff, instructors and employers with meaningful advice and tutorials for productive social media use.
The worst case, short of outright rejection by nostalgic administrators, will hopefully be careful and introspective critiques of the pros and cons of social media for law schools.
What’s amazing to me is that it seems no one has come up with this plan yet. I’m honestly a little shocked that law schools adding Twitter feeds and supporting faculty blogging are big deals. I know I shouldn’t be surprised: social media is another new technology and law schools are large (and therefore often slow-to-respond) bureaucracies. But I’m young and expect rapid and comprehensive technological change. I am, after all, a digital native.
Social Media Best Practices for Law Schools (Part 1)
Social Media Best Practices for Law Schools (Part 2)
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- Social Media Best Practices for Law Schools – the website
- Social Media Best Practices for Law Schools Webinar
- Social Media Best Practices for Law Schools – Join the Discussion!
- Social Media Best Practices for Law Schools (Part 2)
- Social Media Best Practices for Law Schools (Part 1)
- Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
- Why Some Law Schools Discourage Social Media: Student Blogging
- How Law Schools are Using Twitter
- Does Top 10 Most Innovative Law School in America Get Social Media?
- How Social Media May Help You Become a Better Lawyer
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