Check This Out! Podcast

Episode 070: Mediation, Collaborative Family Law, and Fur Coats
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Playing time: 49:14

Linda W. Chodos joins me for another lunchcast from Byblos Authentic Lebanese Restaurant in Getzville, NY.  Ms. Chodos .  A 1993 graduate of the University at Buffalo Law School practicing family law in Hamburg, New York, Ms. Chodos is a leader in promoting mediation and collaborative family law in western New York.  Ms. Chodos is also Director of Western New York Collaborative Law Professionals, Ltd. and a member of International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP).

From Linda's website:

Mediation has been found to benefit people with some or all of the following concerns:

• I know what is best for me and my family. I don't want the courts to decide for me.
  

• I am concerned about the high cost of a divorce.
  

• I cannot communicate with my spouse.
  

• I am concerned that my children will suffer.
  

• I am not sure what constitutes a fair agreement.
  

• I need more information about what my financial situation will be
  following the divorce.
  

• I need good and accurate legal information.
  

• I need a plan that provides me with flexibility to deal with future issues that may arise.
  

• I don't want to "fight it out" in the courts now or after the divorce.

Collaborative law is a relatively new alternative for achieving a fair settlement in a separation or divorce. In collaborative law, both parties retain separate, specially trained lawyers, whose only job is to help them settle the case. If the process does not succeed, the lawyers must withdraw and cannot go on to represent their clients against the other party in court. All participants agree to work together respectfully, honestly, and in good faith to try to find solutions to both parties' legitimate needs. Four creative minds work together to devise individualized settlement scenarios. Neither party can seek court intervention during the collaborative law process.

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Episode 069: Building a Virtual Community in Second Life with Micala Lumiere
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Playing time: 30:50

In Second Life, Micala Lumiere is an artist, musician, real estate developer, and patron of the arts.  In Real Life, Shannon Ritter is a graduate student in the MFA program in New Media at Penn State.  Micala/Shannon talks with me about building the virtual community of Mill Pond and Stone Hill in Second Life, and more generally about community in the online world.

• December 4, 2006 blog post about a report from the USC/Annenberg Digital Futures Project.  
• December 21, 2006 blog post about her reactions to changes a client had done with a space she designed for them
• On music performance in Second Life: blog.SLmusic.org

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Episode 068: Social Networking Technologies
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Playing time: 49:46

This episode is a presentation I gave at the Association of Law Libraries of Upstate New York (ALLUNY) Spring Institute on Friday, May 4 at Syracuse University College of Law on social networking technologies.

• Gene Smith, Social Software Building Blocks
• Laura Cohen, Social Scholarship on the Rise
• SSRN
• MySpace
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Ning (Second Life Librarians and Library 2.0)
• Twitter
• Tumblr
• iStalkr
• Flickr
• YouTube
• Google Calendar
• Google Docs & Spreadsheets
• ThinkFree
• Zoho
• Bubbl.us
• Picnik
• TimeToMeet.info
• YouSendIt
• MediaFire

Theme Music: T. Nile, Get Together. (T. Nile's CD, At My Table, is available from Festival Distribution and through iTunes.)
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