In October and November, the Federal Interagency Working Group on LEP is offering a free webinar series on “Understanding Census Bureau Data on Language and English-Speaking Proficiency.” The webinars will cover key Census concepts as well as finding language-related data and will be led by Census Bureau experts. The webinars will be held on October 30, [...]

The State Bar of California and the Public Interest Clearinghouse (PIC) have just launched a new website that offers mortgage foreclosure information for the public.  Funded by the California Bar Foundation, the site provides information for both homeowners and renters, including Spanish language resources. An article in today’s Sacramento Business Journal offers more details. -M Posted [...]

The Star-Ledger reported today that Legal Services of New Jersey has launched a new website for pro bono attorneys: “The site has two major purposes: to connect attorneys with non-profit groups that service low-income residents, and to provide pro bono attorneys with support to handle the new cases, said Anuradha Gurnani, the agency’s [...]

The Northwest Justice Project just announced new online interactive court forms for pro se users to file a divorce petition with no minor children of the marriage. Future forms available on WashingtonLawHelp.org will include interviews for finishing your divorce, a domestic violence protection order and a demand letter for return of [...]

Today, Kojo Nnamdi, a radio host at WAMU in Washington, DC, has a segment on access to justice in DC with Peter Edelman, the Chair of the DC Access to Justice Commission. You can listen to it live online at noon Eastern or check out a recorded version later on their website. - K Posted in [...]

I hope that all of you take a few minutes each week to follow Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites blog, in which case you’ll already know that FindLaw has introduced RSS feeds for 23 courts and 16 practice areas, including areas of interest to legal aid and public interest advocates such as immigration, family law, bankruptcy, constitutional [...]

Thanks to Periscope Gadget, you can now integrate Basecamp with your iGoogle homepage. More background on their blog here and a few screencasts here. -M Posted in Collaboration, Software/Apps/Tools      

Thanks to Periscope Gadget, you can now integrate Basecamp with your iGoogle homepage. More background on their blog here, and screencasts here. -M Posted in Collaboration, Software/Apps/Tools      

Breakthrough, a human rights organization based in New York and the folks behind ICED — I Can End Deportation (which we featured here), recently launched Homeland Guantanamos, an online game that highlights the deplorable conditions that immigrants face in detention. Other project partners include CAIR Coalition, Stop Prisoners Rape, Immigration Equality, Families for Freedom, Rights [...]

If you are going to vote in the upcoming election and haven’t registered yet, get going! In a lot of states, today is the last day to register. Check out your state’s deadline at Rock the Vote if you don’t know it already. (And for all of the North Dakotans out there — be thankful [...]

Over the past few weeks, it has been amazing to watch how many organizations are using technology to advocate around the presidential elections, but a quick disclaimer before I start showing off examples: Techno.la doesn’t care if you vote for Obama, McCain, Mickey Mouse, or Ben, Kate’s beagle, who runs on the platform of “More [...]

Today the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty launched a new wiki called “Street Lawyer: Legal Tools for Economic Justice,” which provides fact sheets, Q&A, statutory materials, litigation documents, model programs, policies, legislation, and articles. Topics include the criminalization of homelessness, domestic violence, hate crimes against homeless persons, education for homeless children, right to [...]

Idealware, an organization we’ve mentioned before on Technola, is offering a free webinar–Online Communications on a Shoestring. The session will look at how websites, e-mail blasts, and social media can help your organization serve its mission. This webinar will be held on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm (Eastern). You can register [...]

Evaluating a website is not easy. Since you don’t get to interact with your users on a regular basis, often you have to try to read your their minds based on what the server logs tell you.  In addition, the meaning of the vocabulary used in the field of web analytics isn’t always obvious. (If [...]

FreeRice.com, a website that helps you to improve your vocabulary while you provide food for the hungry, has been around for almost a year now. Supported by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the United Nations World Food Program, FreeRice.com has raised over 44 billion grains of rice, which is [...]

An item for the history fanatics among us: CNET UK put together a list of The 50 Most Significant Moments in Internet History. Included in the list are the proposal of TCP/IP, the release of Apache, and  the start up of Amazon. - K Posted in Just For Fun      

It’s always helpful to have a few interesting fonts on hand to spruce up a report, distinguish your PowerPoint, or to help ensure that your marketing materials attract attention. Most fonts cost money, but not at dafont.com, where all of the fonts are absolutely free. To load a new font on your machine, first download [...]

I was just browsing an interesting new anthology, Rebooting America, which includes forty-four essays “brimming with the hopes of reenergizing, reorganizing, and reorienting our government for the Internet Age,” and came across a name that should be familiar to some of you.  Included in the volume is an essay by Gene Koo called “Creating Humane [...]

Yesterday, I promised you more about the final panel discussion of the Court Leadership and Self-Represented Litigation track at the Court Solutions Conference: “Agenda for the Future.” This panel featured Robert Baldwin, Executive Vice-President and General Counsel of the National Center for State Courts; Chief Justice John T. Broderick, Jr. of the New Hampshire Supreme [...]

As I mentioned in my previous post, the Court Leadership Package was launched at the Court Solutions Conference. By my count, around 180 people from across the United States and Canada as well as several other countries attended the Court Leadership and Self-Represented Litigation track. This was a great conference with ample time for networking and [...]