Next week I will be giving two talks at the National Conference on Student Recruitment, Marketing and Retention in Denver. The first is called “Going Mobile: An Introduction to the Mobile Web” where I will talk about the huge paradigm shift that is underway. To paraphrase Tomi Ahonen – “mobile is as different from the  Read more »

Clay Shirky is one of my favorite commentators on the social and economic implications of the Internet.  His book “Here Comes Everybody” is a must read. He recently gave the keynote speech at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York called “Information Overload is Filter Failure”. Shirky’s take is that information overload has been around  Read more »

Over the past month I have returned to Twitter. Previously I had been using Jaiku, mainly because of their channel feature. But with so many of my colleagues using Twitter, it was time to make the switch. I have been amazed at the value Twitter has provided for me professionally. The one thing I didn’t  Read more »

I had the opportunity today to return to the classroom and teach a graduate level Anthropology class on Culture Change. I was asked by the professor to get students to think about how this new technological communication might be altering the nature of social relationships, and the very essence of society itself. The lecture was  Read more »

I’m sitting in my hotel room in Atlantic City finalizing the presentation I’m giving in the Admissions Track at the Middle States Regional Forum tomorrow. The title is “Connecting with Students: New Technologies” and it has two main themes. The first is that “it’s the end of the web as they know it” – that  Read more »

E-mail has been hijacked by the forces of evil. Spam and misuse have caused many people to declare e-mail bankruptcy, something that I may do in the near future. And now the millennial generation is here and they prefer to communicate through IM, text messaging and the communication tools built into social networks making e-mail  Read more »