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Ontario Court of Justice New Website Launch

Clearinghouse IWG — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:23:33 +0000

The Ontario Court of Justice launched an “enhanced” public website. One goal was to expand the content to address the needs of a variety of users from the legal professional – educators and students – media and the public. The development took into consideration the CCCT Website best practices, in particular the use of a content management system. You can check out the new Ontario Court of Justice look at:

http://www.ontariocourts.ca/ocj/ and http://www.ontariocourts.ca/ocj/fr/

The mobile version will follow shortly.

If you have links to content on the old Ontario Court of Justice site you will need to update your links.

“Like” Buttons Create a Digital Trail of Activity on the Web

Clearinghouse IWG — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:31:33 +0000

Interesting post on SLAW notes that the “Like,” “Tweet” and other social buttons on some webpages automatically forwards information about your visit to the page (even if you don’t use the button). Organizations such as Lexum are offering alternative pages without these buttons, but concerned users may wish to use the “private browsing” setting or one of the browser plug-ins mentioned in the article and comments.

There’s an App for That Court

Clearinghouse IWG — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:48:24 +0000

This is an update to a previous post that looked at communication tools. The post ended with a ‘Let us know what your plans are to implement these types of technologies and for what purpose.” Well, there is some development in the States. Check out “There’s an App for That Court”and read about the Pennsylvania initiative.

Communication Tools

Clearinghouse IWG — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:46:40 +0000

The first item in the Slaw post on Six Technology Tools For Improving Client Communication made me think about new technologies and how they might be used by the courts. For example, court address webpages could include apps or QR codes to provide location information configured to be better read on personal devices. Let us know what your plans are to implement these types of technologies and for what purpose.

Intranets

Clearinghouse IWG — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:46:53 +0000

A Slaw post summarized sessions from the 18^th “Intranets for Corporate Communications” conference hosted by Federated Press, The post highlights the importance of usability, current content and close relationship with IT departments. These are issues that are also pertinent to courts websites. An interesting read.

Canadian Court Website Guidelines

CCCT-CCTJ — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:22:58 +0000

The CCCT-CCTJ is proud to publish the work of its Canadian Court Website Intellaction Working Group. The group has prepared an extensive set of guidelines on the development and maintenance of a court website. Here you’ll find a brief summary and its table of content (in PDF format).

Access the Canadian Court Website Guidelines here!

How Can We Find the 1% Who Will Build our Community?

Clearinghouse IWG — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:09:53 +0000

My name is David Williams and I volunteer with the CCCT-CCTJ on the Clearinghouse IWG. More than a year ago, our team was formed to with the goal of providing a resource of links and references to court-related technology on the web.

Before we started, we created an online questionnaire about what users would look for on a Clearinghouse website. We received over 200 responses. What struck me was how respondents were not currently accessing RSS feeds, blogs, and wikis about court technology, but were eager to have these resources available. If the results of our questionnaire can be believed, there is an
audience for an open, community based, clearinghouse for exchanging court technology information.

And there’s the trick, until the community begins to contribute, there’s nothing to draw that community in the first place. A social marketing expert told me that traffic to social sites breaks down along the following lines:

1% create the content
9% comment on what the creators say
90% visit to read the content and comments

In the private sector, they seek out the 1%. They shower them with freebies and rewards to encourage the growth of content on their site. Believe me, if it were in our power to offer you an efiling application, or even an iPad to efile from, we would. What the Clearinghouse Team can do is create a place for people to blog and post comments, and welcome you to
contribute.

If you’re one of the 90%, please consider making the leap below, and join a conversation about what you want to see in the CCCT-CCTJ Clearinghouse. Or tell us the reward that would make it worth your while. I promise you’ll make several people very happy.

Since this is my first blog entry here. I can’t sign off without expressing my gratitude to several people. The members
of the intellection team who made this happen, and in particular those who are adding links. Louise Hamel stands out in
a class by herself for creating an amazing amount of content to build on. And finally I want to thank Olivier Jaar and
the technical team who have built the platform to make this all possible.

Thanks for visiting and we hope you come by later to see what happens next.