by jill on September 30, 2010
A cruel irony – News broke about Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi’s suicide on the very day a two-year Rutgers program called “Project Civility” began. The program, specifically designed to promote civil behavior in the digital age, kicked off Wednesday night on the Rutgers campus amid the reality that a student had just committed suicide after [...]
by jill on February 24, 2010
This morning, I attended “Women of the World’s” panel discussion on Entrepreneurship, Technology & Social Media at the Mid-America Club. The panelists included the founder/CEO of Groupon, Andrew Mason, and Brad Spirrison, Managing Editor of Appolicious (www.appolicious.com, “where consumers find mobile apps they’ll love”). I went to see what new things I could learn about [...]
by jill on October 14, 2009
The lines are blurring between personal and business personas on interactive social media. Many business professionals started using LinkedIn for their business relationships and reserved Facebook for their personal connections. Now, FB is being used more and more by businesses to establish a presence and build new professional contacts and FB users are melding their [...]