Screen Time or Face Time?

Screen Time or Face Time?

By on January 20, 2010 in Social Media

Are you seeing less of your kids these days? According to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation that was reported in The New York Times this morning in If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online, the average young American spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — [...]

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Building Online Community

Building Online Community

By on January 5, 2010 in Social Media

Building online community is both central and tangential to my work — doing it well is mission critical, but when I hand off a finished product it’s usually my product manager’s or client’s responsibility to take the next step. Still, I get questions and have many myself about what works and what doesn’t, which is [...]

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UC Berkeley Study: Gameplay Shown to Raise Kids IQ

UC Berkeley Study: Gameplay Shown to Raise Kids IQ

By on December 14, 2009 in Games & Simulations

Dr. Silvia Bunge, director of the Bunge Cognitive Control and Development Laboratory at UC Berkeley, uses behavioral and brain imaging techniques to examine how we control our thoughts and actions to make them consistent with our internal goals. In a recent study reported by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman in their Newsweek blog NurtureShock, kids [...]

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From Nursery Rhyme to Hit iPhone App

From Nursery Rhyme to Hit iPhone App

By on December 7, 2009 in Educational Technology

Speaking at Warren Buckleitner’s Dust or Magic conference a few weeks ago, Caroline Hu Flexer talks about how her company Duck Duck Moose created an Apple Staff Favorite iPhone Appfrom a nursery rhyme and how a 2 year old inspired some of their best work. In their brief existence, Duck Duck Moose has developed three [...]

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How to Tweet Like Guy Kawasaki

By on December 1, 2009 in Social Media

Guy Kawasaki’s twittering puts my occasional chirps to shame and if you follow his tweet-stream, you have to wonder how he has time to do anything else. A few weeks ago the American Express Open Forum for Small Business published an interview with Guy that tips his hand. Here are some of his secrets: Question: [...]

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Online Legal Research & Resources

Online Legal Research & Resources

By on November 11, 2009 in Business & Marketing

In an effort to keep my legal bills in check (sorry Heidi, Jeffrey, I love you but…) I’ve found a few online resources with plenty of examples to study as a basis for legal draftsmanship. Tech Agreements and Onecle both provide access to the actual agreements used in over 500,000 transactions covering many different industries [...]

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Blog Alert

Blog Alert

By on October 7, 2009 in Educational Technology

Recently Google, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, MacArthur, and Common Sense Media started a promising new blog called Breakthrough Learning in the Digital Age, inviting Scott Traylor (CEO/founder of 360Kid), Lisa Guernsey (author and director at New America Foundation), James Paul Gee (serious game advocate, author and professor at Arizona State) and Gary Knell (Sesame [...]

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Identity Crisis?

Identity Crisis?

By on October 6, 2009 in Social Media

Ever since embracing social media and being asked to coach my clients on its finer points my starting supposition was  that personal and business, politics and brand identity should be separate. OK, call me old school but as my friend and former townie Lee Wilson writes, “Growing up in New England I was taught that [...]

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Billions and Billions Served

Billions and Billions Served

By on September 30, 2009 in Business & Marketing

At the rate applications sales for the iPhone and iPod Touch are going, pretty soon Apple is going to be laying claim to McDonalds’ motto “Billions and Billions Served.” Key drivers: over 50 million iPhones and iPond touches have been sold to date, and there are over 125,000 registered developers in 77 countries around the [...]

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Studying the Real World to Make a Virtual One

Studying the Real World to Make a Virtual One

By on September 22, 2009 in The Biosphere

As part of the research for a new virtual world project this summer I worked with the Pulitzer-winning naturalist and Harvard professor emeritus Dr. E. O. Wilson, naturalist-author-guide Peter Alden and Don Henley‘s Walden Woods Project on Biodiversity Day. For the second time in eleven years more than 100  scientists, professors and amateur naturalists gathered [...]

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Contrary to Published Reports…

Contrary to Published Reports…

By on September 17, 2009 in Next Tech

I have not disappeared from the planet, I’ve just been heads-down working on business development, social media projects and prototyping several exciting new products for the consumer market. More details coming soon. In the meantime, the summer has yielded a few lessons about project management. About how work expands to fill the time allotted; how [...]

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A Small (virtual) World for a Large (real) Market

A Small (virtual) World for a Large (real) Market

By on July 16, 2009 in Educational Technology

As reported in the New York Times’ Technology Bits blog: “Rick Goodman, who developed the popular real-time strategy game Age of Empires, is now focusing on a virtual world where, instead of re-enacting historical battles, Chinese children can learn English. Alex Wang, the company’s chief executive and co-founder, said the idea grew out of his [...]

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