826 Valencia: 826 Valencia’s Student-Journalists Talk Technology
The Valencia Bay-farer is 826 Valencia’s only in-house newspaper written for students by students (ages 8 to 14). Our intrepid reporters learn lessons about the various aspects of journalism, from...
View ArticleJohn M. Eger: Technology Driving Arts Attendance, Engagement and Fundraising
In the last decade alone, any business without a web presence — without an online, interactive website — was simply, not in business. Or wouldn’t be for long. The government and nonprofit sector soon...
View ArticleEric Sheninger: Should There Be Rules for Social Media Use?
I have read some very thought-provoking posts and associated commentary over the past couple of weeks focusing on how particular educators use social media. What I have found interesting is the...
View ArticleTeachers Gravitate To Social Networks Tailored To Educators
Within the wide expanse of social networking, educators appear to be gravitating to more protected and exclusive spaces. While teachers often use such popular mainstream social networks as Facebook,...
View ArticleJohn Thompson: How Long Can the Bubble-in Mania Last?
It is sad that technology has been imposed on urban schools in such a dubious way that the New Jersey teachers union had to challenge the legality of Merit Prep charter school in court. It is even...
View ArticleFacebook Is Unveiling A Mystery Product On Tuesday
Facebook Inc’s stock opened on Monday above $32 for the first time since July as anticipation about upcoming products and financial results underscored Wall Street’s renewed confidence in the online...
View ArticleAmine Chouaieb: Do Social Networks Save Your Life?
We all know the role that social networks play in the decentralization and the transmission of information and in particular, societal events, illustrated by the last ones in the Arab world. As such,...
View ArticleNicole Williams: How to Make the Most of the New Year
With the recession slowing down and jobs growing, people are resolving to focus on their career and move up after sitting back these last few years. In fact, based on a new LinkedIn survey, more than...
View ArticleGrown And Flown: Sex, Drugs, Social Media and What I Failed to Tell My Kids
If the only thing I told my kids about sex was to use protection, would you think I was a good parent? If I had never said more about drugs other than “don’t,” would that have been OK? Then why …...
View ArticleSam Fiorella: Critics Eating Crow: Google+ Becomes Second Largest Social...
I wonder how many bloggers and journalists are eating crow this week after GlobalWebIndex released its GWI.8 (Q4 2012) study? The big story to come out of the report’s findings is that while Twitter,...
View ArticleCraig Kanalley: When Will Facebook And Twitter Be Seriously Challenged?
A futurist once told me that Facebook and Twitter will be gone in 20 years. As I wrote previously, Johannes Koponen cited “technological advances, pressures to keep growing and monetize, generational...
View ArticleChristopher Burgess: Data Privacy Day – Version 2013
As we arrive at the conclusion of another Data Privacy Month, and turn to celebrate Data Privacy Day, Jan. 28, I can say with a great deal of certainty, we should not be celebrating. Our privacy was...
View ArticleLauren Wesley Wilson: 5 Myths About Black PR Professionals
I am a black PR professional and I live, eat, breathe, sleep, and daydream about public relations. I spend my free time networking, learning about the latest tools and social media forums, attending...
View ArticleCraig Kanalley: Facebook May Be Bringing Back An Old Social Networking Feature
While we sometimes think of social media as a very new, recent phenomena, its roots go back more than a decade. LiveJournal was founded in 1999 and MySpace in 2003. Remember them? I was active on both...
View ArticleApp Sets You Up For Dinner With Strangers
GrubTonight is now available in the iTunes app store. By Natasha Baker TORONTO (Reuters) – Looking for new friends or dinner partners? A new smartphone app is designed to help people connect to others...
View ArticleRyan J. Davis: Three Takeaways From Creating Change 2013
Last month I was lucky enough to attend Creating Change 2013, the largest gathering of LGBT activists in the country, produced yearly by the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force. At the New Media...
View ArticleCraig Kanalley: Twitter Search Gets Big Upgrade
Right on cue: Less than one month after Facebook search was revamped, Twitter’s search has done the same. The competition between the social networks continues. On Jan. 15, Facebook announced Graph...
View ArticleJohn Pavley: How to Stop Innovation From Sweeping Your Digital Bits Away
If you live in the northeast you’re either digging out or settling down to spend a day of enforced inactivity. While the snow piles up outside and the Internet is still up it’s a good time to look at...
View ArticleSteve Grove: Hanging Out in the Public Square
About two weeks ago, after Vice President Joe Biden had delivered his recommendations to the president on reducing gun violence, he decided to do something different. Rather than head to television to...
View ArticleMaurice Lim Miller: How Are Communities Better Off When They Work Together?
Social networks play a critical, though often unappreciated, role in people’s efforts to improve their lives. In my work at the Family Independence Initiative, I regularly see the positive impact of...
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