Should teachers be able to “friend” their students on social media platforms? Do the educational advantages outweigh the potential risk of sexual predation? These are important questions for the modern day. Facebook in particular is becoming a primary channel of communication for many people: educators, kids, the elderly from a nursing home, and just about […]

Marketing Charts, a daily online publication devoted to marketing trends, reports that roughly half of all blog readers purchase products because they were mentioned in a blog they frequently read. Analysis firm eMarketer estimated that there were more than 3.9 million women blogging last year who also happened to be mothers. Those so-called “mommy bloggers” […]

The intersection of Media and Technology. That’s how Mark Glaser, executive editor of PBS MediaShift, describes this fascinating project. MediaShift examines the disruption that online technology is introducing into the traditional media world. It not only provides reporting on new technologies and how businesses are meeting the challenge, but it also provides a forum for public […]

With the upcoming U.S. presidential election in November, AOL Huffington Post Media Group has announced the relaunch of its citizen journalism initiative, OffTheBus. The project, designed to be non-partisan, was initially launched by The Huffington Post in 2008 to provide coverage of that year’s presidential campaign, and has boasted more than 12,000 participants. When AOL […]