IBM back on my mind.

My father worked for IBM so this company was a part of my life for many years. But I always thought of IBM as this big faceless company that made mainframe computers. Yes I know they had been a big player in personal computing but that never stuck with me, and not them either. Then [...]

How I manage my social media

The greatest problem I face is how to manage all the social media I use and I don’t use that much! But if you have a couple of Twitter accounts, a Facebook page and maybe a Linkdin account how do you post and follow them all in an easy efficient way? I think most people [...]

What do students really want.

You may be asking why have my last couple of posts been very pointedly about education? The obvious answer is that I spend a portion of my day in the classroom, at the university level, and deal 1st hand with the education realities of the day. I am also part of a group of educators [...]

death by email

I love the way Hugh MacLeod gets right to the point! Technology is great,don’t get me wrong, BUT we are failing in a epic way to manage the use of it in a manner that is healthy! And the classic example of our failure to manage and live with technology is email! We have lost [...]

It is a PREZI world now

How many of you have gone from an overhead projector to PowerPoint, maybe Keynote, and are now feeling pretty comfortable? Most of us have been using some variation of the slide projector/asetate presentation format all our lives. But you know what? We now live  in a whiteboard era. Can you imagine using a chalkboard? Yet [...]

Journalists need retraining, sort of!

Today more than ever journalists need to be retrained on how to connect their stories to their multiple audiences. The problem faced by journalists today is very simply that their occupation is transforming and they do not know how to transform along with it. When we academics talk about the changes taking place to journalism [...]

changethis.com

For the last 2 years, maybe 3, I have been telling business people, teachers, students, parents, friends,cleaners, burger flippers ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN  about changethis.com! I met a COO of an education group and was surprised he had never seen or used the site, go figure! This site, from my perspective is the supplemental reading [...]