California CLE seminar on Web 2.0 tools for lawyers offered on Second Life©
Anyone who talks to me and uses the internet soon learns that I am a big fan of the internet-based virtual world called Second Life©. Second Life is an amazing virtual reality in which users create avatars who then interact with each other. You can go dancing, shopping or listen to music. You can also participate in educational and spiritual activities or you can just hang out on a beach. There are thousands of groups to join from support groups to social groups to educational groups. I am a member of the SL Bar Association, a group of about 100 scholars, law students, and attorneys from around the world. It has been great fun to meet people who have an interest in the law and in virtual reality.
One of our members, Kate Fitz, has been instrumental in arranging for lawyers to get continuing legal education credit by attending seminars on Second Life. In real life, Kate is a law librarian at the Sacramento County Law Library. Kate (known as Cat Galileo on Second Life) has also established a law library on Second Life. (See Kate's website about the Lawspot.) On Saturday, November 22 at noon, she will be leading a seminar on web 2.0 tools for lawyers. Web 2.0 tools abound. Blogs, vlogs (video blogs), social networks, wikis, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, RSS feeds, and much more. Many of these tools are free. Her talk will show lawyers how to use these tools to keep up-to-date, enhance research and collaborative work, network with colleagues and clients, and market a practice. Participants will receive handouts including links to the featured web tools.
The seminar is free to anyone attending. If you wish to obtain the one hour of continuing legal education credit, the cost is $25.00 or the equivalent of that in Linden dollars. You may find more information about the seminar and register for it on the SL Bar Association's website. Hope to see you there!
