University of Chicago Law School: The Electronic Projects Blog

It's Alive! The UChicagoLaw Twitter Feed

The Law School now has its very own Twitter account, which can alert you to newly added content from everything from our Faculty Podcast to our alumni magazine.

If you're the curious type and are wondering how we accomplished this feat, read on.

When we in the Communications department here at the Law School first started trying to figure out how we might be able to use Twitter, our first inclination was to aggregate the Twitter feeds of our brave student and faculty Tweeters into a single stream and feed it back into Twitter. We eventually settled on the TweetChicago format for two reasons. Most importantly, we felt that format did a better job at putting faces to stories, but also... it is much harder than it sounds to effectively aggregate Twitter feeds.

I recently decided to tackle the problem again in order to address a long-standing problem with our Facebook Page. One of our goals for the Facebook page was to allow our "fans"quick access to our various blogs and podcasts, and while RSS aggregating apps exist for Facebook, most of them don't really seem to work -- I was having to manually refresh. The best way to get an RSS feed into Facebook remains their "Notes" application, but you can only import one feed at a time into Notes. So what's a poor Manager of Electronic Communications to do?

Typepad's New Commenting Features - Help Us Test!

Typepad -- the blogging platform that hosts the Law School's blogs, including this one --  recently launched a beta version of a new commenting system, called Typepad Connect. Unlike the previous commenting system, Typepad Connect allows threaded comments, to more easily keep track of discussions. It is also designed to create a sense of community around one's blog, by allowing readers to set up profiles, complete with photos, etc.

Before diving into Typepad Connect on our other blogs, we're going to run a little test here to see how our readers like the new system. Please take a moment to leave a comment and let us know what you think!

Faculty Blog Again Named to ABA Journal's Blawg 100

Just when you thought election season was over... the Law School comes campaigning for your vote.

For the second year in a row, the Law School's Faculty Blog has been named to the ABA Journal's Blawg 100. Vying for top honors in the "Professors" category, the Faculty Blog is facing off against 14 other blogs, including Chicago's own Becker-Posner blog. If you enjoy the Faculty Blog, we hope you'll take a moment to click through to the ABA Journal's site and cast your vote.

"New legal blogs are springing up on a daily basis—we now have more than 2,000 in our online directory. Competition for the time and attention of lawyers is getting fiercer," says Edward A. Adams, the Journal’s editor and publisher. "Half the blogs on last year’s inaugural Blawg 100 list didn’t make the cut this year. That’s a testament to the quality of this year’s honorees, and evidence of the increasing amount of valuable information all legal blogs are publishing."

Just when you thought election season was over... the Law School comes campaigning for your vote.

For the second year in a row, the Law School's Faculty Blog has been named to the ABA Journal's Blawg 100. Vying for top honors in the "Professors" category, the Faculty Blog is facing off against 14 other blogs, including Chicago's own Becker-Posner blog. If you enjoy the Faculty Blog, we hope you'll take a moment to click through to the ABA Journal's site and cast your vote.

"New legal blogs are springing up on a daily basis—we now have more than 2,000 in our online directory. Competition for the time and attention of lawyers is getting fiercer," says Edward A. Adams, the Journal’s editor and publisher. "Half the blogs on last year’s inaugural Blawg 100 list didn’t make the cut this year. That’s a testament to the quality of this year’s honorees, and evidence of the increasing amount of valuable information all legal blogs are publishing."