Born to Be Wired: Technology, Communication and the Millennial Generation
Oswego – February 16, 2007
Presentation Materials
- PowerPoint Presentation (PowerPoint – 2.5 MB)
- Blog
- del.icio.us/markgr/millennials
- del.icio.us/markgr/
Contact Information
Mark Greenfield
Director of Web Services
Mail Drop: 109 Norton Hall
Office Location: 454 Porter Hall
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, N.Y. 14260
Phone: (716)645-2811
Fax: (716)645-7761
Email: markgr@buffalo.edu
Web: webservices.buffalo.edu
Abstract
For today’s students and their families, the Internet is now the hub for all their activities which will increase the importance of university web sites. Their expectation is a 24/7 service culture – always on, always connected – anytime, anywhere.
Part economics, part sociology, and part IT, this presentation will provide historical context for the communications revolution, an overview of the millennial generation and their use of technology, and a look at the future direction of the Web and the new opportunities for communicating and providing services to our constituents.
Recommended Books
- Cairncross, Frances. The Death of Distance. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2001
- Covey, Stephen. The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness. New York, NY: Free Press, 2004
- Fogg, B.J. Persuasive Technology. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2003
- Friedman, Thomas. The World is Flat. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
- Godin, Seth. All Marketers Are Liars. New York, NY: Penquin Group, 2005
- Godin, Seth. Small is the New Big. New York, NY: Penquin Group, 2006
- Howe, Neil and Strauss, William. Millennials Go to College. 2003
- Howe, Neil and Strauss, William. Millennials Rising. New York, NY: Vantage Books, 2000
- Levine, Rick and others. The Cluetrain Manifesto. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2001
- Morville, Peter. Ambient Findability. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 2005
- Rheingold, Howard. Smart Mobs. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2002
- Trippi, Joe. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. New York NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 2004
- Scoble, Robert and Israel, Shel. Naked Conversations. New York NY: Wiley, John & Sons
- Shapiro, Andrew. The Control Revolution. New York, NY: Century Foundation, 1999
- Surowiecki, James. The Wisdom of Crowds. New York, NY: Random House, 2004
- Tapscott, Daniel and Williams, Anthony. Wikinomics. New York, NY: Penquin Group, 2006
Web Resources
The World is Flat
- Tom Friedman speech from MIT (video)
- Online NewsHour: Tom’s Journal: American Jobs in India (Interview with Tom Friedman on outsourcing American jobs)
- Why the World is Flat (Interview with Tom Friedman from Wired Magazine)
The Millennial Generation
- Generation Next (from PBS)
- Educating the Net Generation (from Educause)
- Teens and Technology (PDF – from Pew/Internet)
- The Internet at School (from Pew/Internet)
- The Digital Disconnect: The widening gap between Internet-savvy students and their schools (from Pew/Internet)
- The Net Generation and the School
- Teen Content Creators and Consumers (from Pew/Internet)
- The Information Age Mindset (PDF)
- State Legislators as Co-Pilots (From the Chronicle – subscription required)
- Putting Parents in their Place: Outside Class (From the Washington Post)
- The Key to Competitiveness: Understanding the Next Generation Learner (From Educause)
- The State of Our Nation’s Youth 2003-2004 (PDF – From the Horatio Alger Association)
- The Multitasking Generation (Cover story from Time Magazine – March 27, 2006)
Millennials in the Workplace
- Scenes from the Culture Clash (From FastCompany Magazine – January 2006)
- The Millennial Challenge: Growing a New Generation of Workers (from Veritude)
- Are U.S. employers ready for the Millennial generation? (from Emory University – February 2006)
- Digital Distractions Bad for the Workplace (from Newsweek – March 2006)
- Generation Y: They’ve arrived at work with a new attitude (from USAToday – November 2005
Technology
- 2007 Horizon Report
- HigherEd BlogCon 2006
- Home Alone? How Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content (by Joshua Porter – from Digital Web Magazine)
- Tim Berners Lee on the read/write Web
- The next big thing: The Web as your servant (from USA Today)
- NJIT’s SmartCampus Project
- E-Mail is so Five Minutes Ago (from BusinessWeek)
- The Power of Us (from BusinessWeek)
- How to beat jet lag for $550,000 (from the globandmail.com)
Instant Messaging
- MeeBoMe
- Trillian
- AIM Survey 2005
- Instant Messaging – Collaborative Tool or Educator’s nightmare!
- Instant Messaging: Its Impact on and Recommendations for Student Affairs
Text Messaging (SMS & MMS)
- Life and Romance in 160 Characters or Less
- Texting Translation Service
- Dawgtel from SIU
- DrexelOne Mobile
- Text Messaging Blog
- MMS Blog
RSS
- Summary from Wikipedia
- Microsoft Crashes the RSS Party (from BusinessWeek)
- RSS feeds college students’ diet for research (from USA Today)
- The Business Case for RSS (PDF)
- Bloglines
Blogs
- Summary from Wikipedia
- Tim Berners-Lee’s Blog
- Blogs will change your business (from BusinessWeek)
- Naked Conversations Blog
- Extending Instructional Uses of Blogs To The Campus: A Case Study (PDF)
- The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog
- Technorati
Sample Blogs supported by Web Services
- Admissions Blogs
- Be Advised Newsletter (Undergraduate Advising Newsletter)
- PreHealth Bulletin
- Scholarly Times Newsletter
- Pre Law
- Web Services
Podcasting
- When Ipod goes collegiate (from the Christian Science Monitor)
- Podcast Alley
- Ipodder
- Article on Podcasting from CNN
- IPods knock over beer mugs (from USA Today)
Wikis
- Wikipedia
- Wiki Entry on Wikipedia
- UB entry on Wikipedia
- It’s a Wiki Wiki World (from Time Magazine)
- CaseWiki (Case Western)
- DavisWiki (UC – Davis)
- JHUWuki (Johns Hopkins)
- OberWiki (Oberlin)
- COSTP World History Project
Social Networking
- The Social Software Weblog
- Integrated Web Design: Social Networking
- Myspace
- del.icio.us
- TakingITGlobal
- University of Manitoba Virtual Learning Commons
3G Mobile Phones
- Summary from Wikipedia
- 3G Today
- 3G Newsroom
Vlogs