A Few New Legal Aid Blogs and Twitter Profiles

Posted on January 14, 2009 by technola

I wanted to share a few recently launched legal aid blogs and Twitter profiles, which I hope represent a new trend in social media adoption for our community in 2009:

Blogs:


These blogs are authored by two remarkably similar folks, both experienced legal aid lawyers, technologists, and extraordinary Southern gentlemen.

Twitter Profiles:


In addition to these examples, if your organization is considering launching a new blog see our list of legal aid blogs here. If you're considering Twitter, additional examples include @ImmAdvocates, @TRLA and @FarmwrkrJustice. -M

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Technola - January 14, 2009 5:22 PM
I wanted to highlight an excellent list of legal aid groups using social networking tools that Tom Winter of Community Legal Aid Services in Ohio posted to the comments for yesterday's post on new blogs and twitter profiles. ...
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Jimmy - January 14, 2009 3:37 AM

How incredibly kind! Thank you. I couldn't let you two have all the fun. And now Mike is on-board... and I've encountered SO MANY other great sites, mostly thanks to your blogroll.

I plan to tinker with my blog up to, during, and well after Austin...! Now, y'all have a good night!

Tom Winter - January 14, 2009 2:50 PM

Thanks for the post. Here are some others I've collected.

Twitter profiles:
technola's own accesstojustice (very nice) @accesstojustice
South Carolina Access to Justice (one of my favorites) @SCATJ
ABA Journal @ABAJournal
NLADA @NLADA
LSNTAP @LSNTAP

South Carolina Access to Justice also has a nice blog.

Some Facebook pages/groups:
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid's Facebook Page
Legal Aid Society of Hawaii's Facebook Page
Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County's Facebook Page
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland's Facebook Group
Legal Aid of Western Australia's Facebook Group
NLADA's Facebook Group
Community Legal Aid Services

LinkedIn Groups:

MySpace Pages:
Legal Aid of Northwest Texas

Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation's LinkedIn Group
Texas Riogrande Legal Aid's LinkedIn Group

scaccesstojustice - January 14, 2009 2:51 PM

Thanks again for posting SC Access to Justice on your Blogroll! And thank you for sharing others of interest to me.
-RFW

Texas RioGrande Legal Aid - January 14, 2009 5:58 PM

I'm a big believer in self-promotion so...

You can keep up with us easily at www.trla.org/press or visit us at:
www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Texas-RioGrande-Legal-Aid/6983347753
www.flickr.com/trla
www.myspace.com/TRlegalaid
www.youtube.com/TRlegalaid
twitter.com/TRLA

Tom Winter - January 15, 2009 3:56 PM

Thanks for the nod in your other post.

Here is a nice post I found with some musings on Twitter and "status", and it talks about my other passion, SharePoint).

The Status of Status from Facebook, IM, Twitter, Linked in and SharePoint?

Tom Winter - January 31, 2009 4:10 PM

Here are some more related twitter accounts I've found:

@povertynews
@shrivercenter

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