by Rhett Smith | Dec 3, 2009 | Marriage
I wanted to share this Ted talk with you (HT: Marc Payan), How the Internet enables intimacy by Stefana Broadbent. The description of her talk is: We worry that IM, texting, Facebook are spoiling human intimacy, but Stefana Broadbent’s research shows how...
by Rhett Smith | Feb 10, 2009 | Marriage
McLuhan and Twitter via John Dyer This is a post I have had in the making for a while, but when I read John Dyer’s post Tools for Tech Thinking: McLuhan on Twitter, and well, he unknowingly gave me some inspiration to post some of my thoughts on this issue. Read...
by Rhett Smith | Dec 12, 2008 | Leadership
Text Messaging: Best Way to Communicate? I came across the article Gmail Preferred By Students, But Nothing Beats Texting, this morning via Twitter (HT: Terry Storch & Matt Knisely). Lots of interesting things in this article but a couple stood out to me in...
by Rhett Smith | Aug 9, 2008 | Leadership
What is a wiki? Well, if you don’t know, let’s look at what the most famous wiki, Wikipedia, has to say. A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup...
by Rhett Smith | Jun 28, 2008 | Marriage, Technology
I thought this video is appropriate in light of a couple of posts back.. It’s part of the Plain English Series: Wikis in Plain English I used email in the coordination of our Student Sunday service at Bel Air this last June. Big mistake. Email is terrible as...
by Rhett Smith | Jun 26, 2008 | Marriage, Technology
Big Blue Embraces Social Media Adapting these tools, according to IBM, is also important for recruiting. Hotshots coming out of universities are accustomed to working across these new networks—and are likely to look at a company that still relies on the standard...
