Protecting Your Family From Online Attacks
How can you protect your family from online attacks? Like most people, I find the Internet a very convenient way to communicate with friends and family in addition to using…
5 Social Media Predictions for the Rest of 2014
We're beyond the half-way mark of this year, folks! Do you know where your social media strategy is? The world continues to change at lightning speed. Here are a few…
How Not to Tweet
Business and individuals have posted content on social media sites, only to regret it. In some cases, immediately. Only recently, SMC member Melissa Pont posted a great article about social…
3 Ways to Protect Your Online Privacy
As personal privacy online has become a bigger issue to many people, here are three quick things that you can do to help protect your privacy when using social media…
The War Over Your Child’s Social Profile
There’s been a lot of talk about revamping the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, originally passed in 1998, to reflect the realities of our social media age. Many legislators, who…
Tech News: Facebook Email Fiasco & ICANN Top Level Domains
I mentioned in my last post, privacy is looming large in the social media space again this year, and users are really making social network operators sit up and pay…
Following up on Technology Predictions for 2012
So we’re about halfway through 2012, and I thought it would be a good time to see how my predictions for hot topics in social media and the law are…
Privacy in Public – what are you trying to hide?
I remember irritating the heck out of my kids when they asked for a password to one of the systems in the house that they did not really need access…
Finding Out the Difference Between Personal and Private
All of us that are active in some respect on social networks will sooner or later end up in a situation where we don't know if we should publish an…
Protest SOPA and PIPA bills
The internet has been buzzing for months around two bills that were written to prevent the unlawful use of copyrighted material on the internet.These bills are SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), which…