Monthly Archives: April 2010

Social Media and Higher Education disconnect and an offering

I had the chance to create a presentation for higher education administration and staff/faculty and realized about 20% of the way through there is a large disconnect in numerous areas: Tools chosen to implement social media in higher education Policies and privacy controls Deployment and management I am considering publishing the entire slide deck on…

Parents have rights to kid’s Facebook account, or do they?

The legal battle needs to be separated far from the parental battle to clearly understand this. The parent broke laws. Good intentions do not allow this.

iFad – How to Win Over Consumers by Apple

I am not going to banter whether I think the iPad is a winner or not. Too many sites are doing that now. The next stage of the Apple iFad movement is in full swing. We, as in tech writers and early adopters, quickly jump to the tear-down of each part of the device and capabilities. The reader of these very articles we write are other tech journalists and early adopters. Not the consumers seeing this device being shown on morning shows and CNN all day.