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All Together Now!

All Together Now!. How to Build on Your Court, Bar and Program Partnerships to Enhance and Sustain Your Statewide Website . TIG Conference January 2008. Session Goals.

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All Together Now!

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  1. All Together Now! How to Build on Your Court, Bar and Program Partnerships to Enhance and Sustain Your Statewide Website TIG Conference January 2008

  2. Session Goals • We will discuss and brainstorm how to get the courts, bar, staff, and directors re-inspiredto fund, support and contribute to the statewide website.

  3. “Marry me Shirley – I desperately need content.”

  4. Stakeholder Committees • Legal services organizations (LSC and non-LSC) • Pro bono programs • Bar associations • Courts • Law librarians/Public librarians • Law schools • Human service organizations • Others (e.g., low-income technology providers)

  5. Other Stakeholders • Libraries • Community Technology Centers • Neighborhood Centers • Religious Organizations • Shelters – homeless, domestic violence • Creative partnerships

  6. Stakeholder Activity • What have stakeholders added to these projects? • Advisory/Governance role • Content contributors • Outreach/marketing partners • Access points • Administrative responsibilities • Innovation • Funders

  7. What we have accomplished • 50 states plus 5 territories have public sites • 4 million+ page views/year • Anecdotally 75% users are low-income or helping low-income • “Spine” of service delivery innovation • HotDocs, LiveHelp, XML

  8. Partnership Strategy • “Website staff and managers should pay particular attention to the potential of court, bar, library and others as core joint operators of an access to justice website.” • Website Sustainability Report, p. 27, Richard Zorza

  9. Benefits of Partners • What are the greatest benefits of partnership on these projects?

  10. Challenges of Partners • What are the greatest challenges to creating new (and reigniting old) partnerships?

  11. Inspiring Partnerships • Courts – Idaho • Courts/Law Schools – Illinois • Private Bar – Mississippi • Law Library – Texas • Credit Union – Montana • Bar Foundation – Ohio • Legal authors - Georgia

  12. Inspire each other! • Share a successful partnership story/strategy with the person next to you. • Then team up with another pair and share the strategies again, this time with each person reporting on his or her partner's strategies.

  13. Ongoing needs • Content maintenance, and new development • Outreach/marketing • Emerging technologies • Service delivery integration

  14. Creative Funding • TIG • PA court channel • FL pro bono outreach • IOLA • Website Sustainability Report • Comparability opportunity (FL, TX, NY)

  15. Creative Funding • Content/project • NY Attorney General • ME Area Agency on Aging • AR Winthrop Rockefeller (local funds) • Americorp VISTA program • MT, WY, AK • Others • Courts, Bar Foundations, …

  16. Partnership Strategy • “Website staff and managers should have a clear partnership building strategy that reaches out to the key actual and potential stakeholders for buy-in, content, marketing, access partnerships, evaluation and funding.” • Website Sustainability Report, p. 27, Richard Zorza

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