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 [...]

Rather than highlighting the usual free software and tools, this week I wanted to point out a great article published this month on Idealware by Peter Campbell (blog), the director of Information Technology at Earthjustice, which is likely to save you both time and money when making your next major software purchase (i.e. case management [...]

An interesting AP article on the recent Pew Internet and the American Life Survey, “Teens, Video Games and Civics.” The survey found that “ninety-seven percent of young respondents play video games. That’s 99 percent of boys and 94 percent of girls, with little difference in the percentages among various racial and ethnic groups and incomes.” [...]

For those of you on Twitter or who are considering joining Twitter, I’ve created a Legal Aid and Pro Bono Pack on TwitterPacks. TwitterPacks contains lists of who is talking about what on Twitter. I’ve added quite a few people to the list, but if your name isn’t there and it should be, go ahead [...]

A great free online training opportunity from the Shriver Center: “The Editorial Team of Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy, published by the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, invites you to attend this free, 75-minute webinar on Thursday, October 2, 2008, at 11 a.m. Pacific time, noon Mountain time, 1 p.m. Central [...]

The National Association for Legal Professionals (NALP) announced today that the median entry-level pay for legal aid attorneys is $40,000. The good news - it’s up $6,000 from 2004 and $4,000 from 2006 . - K

When looking at software, it’s hard to tell the difference between what’s good or bad on first glance, and unfortunately, bad software is a lot like a bad haircut — it takes a long time to fix what only took only minutes to wreck. Enter the Social Source Commons, which serves as a platform for social [...]

I’ve always been a big fan of librarians. When I was younger, they would let me wander aimlessly through the stacks at Mayville State University, and they never said a word when I checked out a huge pile of books at the end of the day. However, I never necessarily thought of them as hip. [...]

If anyone is interested in or needs assistance with hurricane-related issues, they should check out The Hurricane Information Center. Put together by Andy Carvin from National Public Radio and a mess of people that he convinced to help, this website is a portal for all of the information that is flying around about this year’s [...]