FaceBook/Social Media Best Practices for Law Schools/Students

How should law schools respond to the explosion of social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc) online?

How can students exploit new learning and career opportunities while avoiding pitfalls? What should professors do when students try to "friend" them? If class discussions wind up Tweeted, how do schools protect students' privacy? Are schools putting themselves at the mercy of disinterested for-profit companies with unfriendly policies? This workshop makes a first pass at answering these questions and devising a draft policy recommendation on which to base future discussion.


Laura Bergus has assembled a *very non-academic* compilation of social media best practices for law schools into a website. Currently this lives at http://smbp.laurabergus.com, but hopefully will be taken over by an institution that can update it and add more concrete recommendations. (volunteers?).  There're a lot of content areas missing and that many references aren't cited or linked yet. But hopefully it will be some food for thought on a few aspects of this topic.