Transparency is a good thing, right? Customer comments and complaints have been one of the primary forces reshaping the way we shop and buy on the web. Amazon.com made the “user review” paramount to any purchasing decision on goods, and Angie’s List brought that paradigm to services as well. When remarks about poor performance shifted [...]

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Facebook is great at getting us to open up, to share personal details with our “friends” and to live out our lives online. Unfortunately, the rest of the world hasn’t quite caught up to Zuckerberg’s utopian vision…

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In this digital age, being a long distance grandparent is a little easier. You have so many technological avenues to help you keep in touch with your grandchildren. Memories captured in photos and videos can now be instantly shared via email, Facebook, and Twitter. But no matter what your title—Grandma, Meemaw, Abuela, Papa, Papi or [...]

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  McAfee Offers Back-to-School Tips for Promoting Good Online Behavior  The explosion of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers has raised a new concern for parents as they pack their children off to school for the new year: potential disciplinary action by school administrators for cyberbullying, sexting and other online misbehavior taking place [...]

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As social media interactions provide more confounding problems in school, many districts are saying “buh-bye” to student-teacher networking. New Hanover County school district in North Carolina, along with at least two other districts, is enacting a new social media policy that prohibits students from being friends with their teachers and vice versa. The school board [...]

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To read part 1 of our interview with Tshaka Armstrong, please go here. I met Tshaka Armstrong at CES 2010 when we were launching Safe Eyes 6. Over the years I have seen Tshaka work tirelessly to educate parents and schools on how to guide children through today’s digital world. As part of our series [...]

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I met Tshaka Armstrong at CES 2010 when we were launching Safe Eyes 6. Over the years I have seen Tshaka work tirelessly to educate parents and schools on how to guide children through today’s digital world. As part of our series on online safety and education, we recently caught up with Tshaka to talk [...]

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