Yesterday, we walked you through Google+. Today, we’ll offer a competing viewpoint that remains skeptical of Google+. How cute — TechCrunch and Mashable got sneak peeks at Google’s latest attempt at building a social network, something that has been rumored about for a year at least (remember Google Me?). I’ll Wave while all the Buzz passes [...]
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
July 1st, 2011
Google+ Seems Adequate, But May Sneak Up on Us
Posted in Education, Industry News, Internet in the world, Social Media, Technology 
Tags: Facebook, Gavin Dunaway, Google, Google Buzz, Google Wave, Skype, Tech Journalism 
No Comments »June 28th, 2011
AM Affiliate: People Spending More Money on Ads, LinkShare and Barnes & Noble Put a Ring On It, + More
» Ad spending is going up, up, up. [AdAge] » Wow-blindness is a real affliction and it might just be harshing your bottom-line in the worst way. [Seth Godin] » There’s a lot of e-waste–that’s discarded computer junk, not spam–in the world and Congress aims to tackle it. [Ars Technica] » Barnes & Noble has [...]
December 10th, 2010
Education As a Performance-Based Industry
Following the appointment of Cathie Black as New York’s new schools chief, those who are lobbying in her favor as saying that with her business acumen, Black could transform the city’s educational system into a competitive marketplace like many other channels of corporate America–and this, in turn, could breed a sharp new crop of teachers [...]
Posted in Education, Industry News, Internet in the world, Marketing Tags: Cathie Black, Justin Baeder, Performance Marketing, Policy No Comments »December 8th, 2010
Online Schools To Spend More Money On Social and Mobile in 2011
From this report issued by DegreeSearch.org: “Seventy-five percent of respondents planned to spend more on marketing for 2011,” said Ryan Stevenson, vice president of lead generation at DegreeSearch.org. “Many of those companies specified SEO, display, pay-per-click, social media and mobile advertising among the areas that they were interested in expanding.”
December 7th, 2010
Is Online Education Customizable Enough to Yield Better Results?
In addition to hosting quality branded campaigns, Blue Phoenix Media also owns and operates The Academic Network, which presents students with alternative education solutions. This is a question that The Heritage Foundation’s The Foundry is positing lately–comparing it to the inefficacy of brick-and-mortar schools that do a major disservice to students by trying to standardize [...]
December 1st, 2010
Top Education Stories From the Web
- The world of online education keeps growing as a company debuts Anatomy Practice–an online suite of anatomy-based teaching and learning materials–targeted toward higher education. [MarketWatch] – 5 incredible apps to help make classroom management easier for teachers. [Mashable] – To aid in turning around “dropout factories”–that is, schools where less than 60% of students [...]
Posted in Education, Internet in the world, Technology Tags: Cathie Black, College, Dropout Factories, Essays, New York, Online Education No Comments »November 30th, 2010
Online Education Watchdog Group Issues Digital Literacy Curriculum
In addition to hosting quality branded campaigns, Blue Phoenix Media also owns and operates The Academic Network, which presents students with alternative education solutions. Common Sense Media is an online watchdog group monitoring TV, film, music, and literacy targeted towards children. They’ve issued a “digital literacy curriculum” which has already been adopted by 10,000 schools.
November 23rd, 2010
Who Wants to Teach Kelli Space How to Become A Super Affiliate?
Well, first some background into who Kelli Space is: A college grad who has racked up, with interest, $200K in debt, by following the advice that, “A quality education should never be measured by its high price tag.” Newser has the full story, including how she’s worked it out so if 300,000 philanthropic Americans contribute [...]
Posted in Education, Internet in the world Tags: Affiliate Marketing, College, Education, Finch Sells, Jonathan Volk, Kelli Space, Lisa Barone, Seth Godin 3 Comments »November 22nd, 2010
Top Education Stories From the Web
In addition to hosting quality branded campaigns, Blue Phoenix Media also owns and operates The Academic Network, which presents students with alternative education solutions. – Schools will be equipped with salad bars. [Ecorazzi] – Many teachers are trying to enact some serious educational reform. [Huffington Post] – Are cyber charter schools the next step in [...]
Posted in Education, Technology Tags: Educational Reform, Online Education, Scholarships No Comments »November 19th, 2010
Does Bill Gates’ Approach to Education Make Sense of Cathie Black’s Appointment?
In addition to hosting quality branded campaigns, Blue Phoenix Media also owns and operates The Academic Network, which presents students with alternative education solutions. Having already built an empire around computers and technology, Bill Gates might not seem like the fittest advocate to speak out about the country’s faltering educational system. But on Friday, he [...]
