I am honored to have been invited to participate in a panel discussion this week in Washington, D.C. on the importance of improving education about social media in our schools. Set out below is the press release for the event. Event Registration Please join us for an important event calling on high schools to educate…
On Thursday, May 26, Good Morning America aired the latest segment in a series that it has been doing on teens and technology. Entitled “What Your Kids Don’t Want You to Know: Teens Exploited Via Technology,” the piece “examines how some teens are coerced or blackmailed into sending explicit pictures or video to a predator.”…
Last week, I had the pleasure of doing an interview with WITI Fox 6 News anchor/reporter Ben Handelman (@BenHandelman) about a recent spate of educator sexual assault cases that have arisen in Milwaukee area schools. The opening of his piece lays out the scope of the problem: MILWAUKEE — They read like many texts written…
NBC affiliate KSNV (News3 Las Vegas) will be taping a panel discussion next month about the issue of educator misconduct in the state of Nevada and across the nation. I am pleased to announce that I have been invited to participate in the panel discussion. I will update this post with additional information regarding panel…
It gives me pleasure to announce that Anonymous Alerts, a leader in the mobile reporting sector for school technology, has asked me to join its advisory board. I look forward to assisting this innovative company with its efforts to improve school and student safety. You can read the company’s press release by clicking here. The…
With the American presidential race in full swing, public opinion polls are once again garnering a huge amount of attention, notwithstanding the fact that they may be fundamentally flawed and actively injurious to our democracy. In fact, the state of polling has deteriorated so much that the polling titan Gallup recently announced that it will…
In early April, a new conference is debuting in Atlanta, Georgia. Dubbed the “Collaborative Age Forum and Exposition,” the conference is described as “the world’s first large-scale conference and trade show dedicated to the management science and enabling technologies of collaboration across industries, sectors, and geographies. Collaborative Age offers a wealth of networking opportunities, plus…
Earlier this week, I received an email from Paul Krupin, the owner and operator of a marketing firm called Direct Contact PR. I’ve been reading and following Paul’s smart suggestions for a number of years now, and he has always been very generous with his time and experience. Attached to his recent email was an…
Last month, I was invited to participate in a podcast called “A Sickness of Silence,” part of an ongoing series of roundtable discussions involving survivors of child abuse and various experts on the topic. One of the participants in the roundtable, Michael Skinner, has been kind enough to read my blog and recently sent me…
In mid-October, I had the pleasure of presenting at the New York State School Boards Association with Joanne Harpel on the topic “Teens, Technology, and Suicide: Understanding Causes, Effects, and ‘Bullycide.’” In the coming year, we will be working to bring this presentation to school districts throughout the tri-state region and beyond. After fifteen years…
