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When I was still in college (sigh…), wireless laptops were the professors biggest competition in the classroom.  Having wireless in classrooms was a big thing ~ even bigger when professors allowed you to bring your own laptop to “take notes” but it also gave everyone around you free reign to see what you were looking at. (Note taking, 100% of the time, I swear!!!) Majority of the time, most students had one popular social networking site always up – Facebook.  Back then (2-3 years ago), Facebook was still predominantly for college and high school kids.  It had started to grow among recent graduates but it definitely had not escalated to parents, grandparents or professors…yet.  As these students graduated and went off into the working world, they often found social media sites blocked by their employers.  How dare they!?!? Read the rest of this entry →

Last week, I was fortunate enough to attend the annual eduWeb Conference held in Chicago. For those of you who are not familiar with this conference, you might take a gander from the two root words, edu (short for education) and web that it might deal with online strategies for the higher education industry. That you are right! As the website states, “The eduWeb Conference is an annual, internationally recognized event for the higher education community, attracting those who are involved in online strategy, marketing and technology.” Read the rest of this entry →

If you grew up in the days before email was the preferred method for sharing information with friends and family, then you probably remember chain letters. I was born in 1978 and fell into that in-between group that started using the Internet for email and basic research in middle school and high school on our dial-up Internet connection (insert look of horror here). As a young child I remember mail arriving for me; the envelope indicating that it had come from a best friend or acquaintance written in the slapdash scrawl usually reserved for young children and physicians.

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