by Whitney | Oct 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
I sit on the Technology committee for our local school district. As a geek by profession, I have been both deeply concerned about the way technology is being integrated into the classroom, and amazed at how quickly things are changing for the better. The biggest...
by Whitney | Oct 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
One of the biggest questions that’s come up time and again about the new FTC Guidelines is how this applies to Journalists. Most bloggers have the perception that journalists writing for newspapers and magazines are sent free stuff all the time that they then...
by Whitney | Oct 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
A friend forwarded me this link to a new Unconference, PR Camp , taking place in New York on Friday, November 20, a day after the Web 2.0 Expo concludes in NYC. Given that I will be in New York, since the Podcamp Foundation is helping to organize the Open...
by Whitney | Oct 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
This may need some tweeking, but it’s a draft at an attempt to understand the disclosure rules in a flow chart manner- let me know what you think- does this help, or simply confuse things...
by Whitney | Oct 12, 2009 | community, politics, social media, Uncategorized
Chris Brogan had an interesting post titled ” What Human Businesses and the Social Web are all About” and it got me thinking, as usual. Tom Friedman has talked about how the World is Flat and the boundaries that have long separated people are evaporating...
by Whitney | Oct 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
Trying to “hit one out of the park”, literally for baseball, and metaphorically, for the rest of us, is a tricky thing. Some superstars, like Mark McGuire, made it look easy. Later, we found out that he decided to use steroids along with many other...