Episodes
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Stress-free Creating
embrace the art of stress-free creating overcome your procrastination get past the stress of not creating release your perfectionist tendencies let go of your moments of self-sabotage silence your inner critic
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Is High Tech Turning Us into The Borg?
Deep thoughts about tech trends toward cyborg humanity Individualism at risk in networked, connected society Does it matter if humans change form? TheSocialNetworkStation.com/shows/the-social-network-show/
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The New Breed of Social Network
How Frienedy rethinks social networking Parents can model and teach online behavior Four parent-led companies offer safety package Frienedy is gateway to Cyberwise, PocketGuardian, Kids’ Email package deal
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PocketGuardian Alerts Parents Without Spying on Kids
• Teen suicides prompted dads to develop app • PocketGuardian monitors without “spying” • Avoid resentment and communication shutdown • Texting & many social media channels covered • Android or iOS phones supported • TheSocialNetworkStation.com/shows/the-social-network-show/ The parent company of...
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Summit Unites Players Promoting Digital Citizenship
• Digital citizenship merges civics, character education & technology use • Merging networks leads stakeholders out of silos to collaborate • Global movement gathers steam with #digcitsummit • Nine elements of digital citizenship • Anyone can help kids build empathy & navigate digital world •...
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Holiday Home Safety-Windows that Thwart Thieves
• Tyson Schwartz of Soft-Lite Windows on home safety • How to be sure your home is not an easy mark • Ways to disguise your absence from home • Would your windows pass the structural forced entry test? • Ways to make a thief take more time and make more noise •...
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How Hackers Help ID Security Threats
• Security researchers as ambassadors to industry • Iamthecavalry.org leading safety of IoT • Malware hijacks a fetal heart monitor • Protecting humanity in connected world • How infosec can make your device safer • Five-star Cyber Safety Framework’s guiding principles
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Networked and Connected--But Unsafe at any Speed?
• Computer security + Internet of Things • Safer outcomes sooner with collaboration • At high risk of hacking— • Autos, homes, medical devices • Planes, trains, dams, power plants • Join The Cavalry to the rescue • TheSocialNetworkStation.com/shows/the-social-network-show/
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The New Faces of Street Gangs
• Tony Avendorph, gang prevention trainer • Street gangs and white-collar crime • Off the street, on to social media networks • Law enforcement must patrol cyberspace • Why kids join gangs • Understanding—the first step to prevention • TheSocialNetworkStation.com/shows/the-social-network-show/…
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Keep Your Firearms Out of the Wrong Hands
• Keep firearms out of the wrong hands • Remember, always Lock it Up! • NCPC teaches gun owners after-hours security • SafeFirearmsStorage.org • Protecting children can protect all of us • TheSocialNetworkStation.com/shows/the-social-network-show/
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What We've Learned About Campus Safety
• Chuck Sczuroski, NCPC master trainer • Protecting 18- to 24-year-old young people • Gradual progress in response to mass shootings• Keeping guns away from highest risk populations • TheSocialNetworkStation.com/shows/the-social-network-show/ Do you ever need to get work done, but don’t have the...
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Shining a Light on Identity Theft
Bullets • Presented by National Crime Prevention Council & Mid-South Bank • Most identity theft starts with lost wallets • Phishing, vishing, and smishing, Oh my! • Protect your credit report with a PIN number
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A First Amendment View of Internet Speech
• Constitutional scholar, Dr. John Finn explains • Freedom of speech and new media • Hate speech and trolls • Free speech vs. dignity and equality of persons • TheSocialNetworkStation.com/shows/the-social-network-show/ ________________________________________ Most of you listening to this podcast...
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Get Certified in Digital Marketing
Bullets for Libsyn: • Employers need staff with verified, specific digital skills • Digital Marketing Institute founders analyzed skills needed • DMI is now the leading global provider of digital education • Education developed by DMI adopted by top universities • Even innovators need…
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When Tech Addiction Leads to Crime
• Melissa Westendorf, JD, PhD, of TechnologyWellnessCenter.com• How tech addiction has led some to crime• Legal fallout after years of technology overuse• Teaching moderation from a young age• Easy access to prevention materials• TheSocialNetworkStation.com Today’s episode of the show is brought…
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Thinking About Cybersecurity
• Software producers are not currently liable for damages due to sloppy coding • Your unprotected computer can be used to attack your friends’ computers • Getting from caveat emptor to accountability in the software industry • Giving up right to sue for damages is standard in Terms of Service •...
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Quick! Help Ashley Fund Her Film via Kickstarter
• Study by Bain & Co. reveals many women grads aspire to top management • But hopes and confidence are much lower among women with over two years’ experience • Director Ashley Maria’s new film, Pioneers in Skirts, explores why • As she interviews new hires and women in management
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How Big Brother Snuck Up On Us
Libsyn bullets • Bruce Schneier talks about privacy and security • His new book Data and Goliath • The hidden battles to collect your data and control your world • The nonsense of data vs. metadata • Why privacy is not a changeable social norm • The harm ubiquitous mass surveillance does to our...
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New Technology Outpacing Laws That Protect Us
• Emerging technologies are outpacing ethics, law, and regulation • Why do we need regulation? • Why are concerns are no longer just the stuff of sci-fi? • What types of regulation would be faster and more flexible? • How can consumer power and liability insurance play a role? •...
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SafeSmartSocial Says Take Control of Your Online Reputation
Guest: Josh Ochs—branding expert and author of Light, Bright and Polite • Parents: fourteen might be a good age to go public on social media • Apps to use to build an online portfolio of accomplishment • How to use social media to impress colleges and future employers •…
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Getting the News from Facebook and Twitter
• Journalists as gatekeepers on social media news • Getting your news on Facebook vs. Twitter • Differences among Newspapers, TV, and Online News on social media • Your view of the world: Facebook vs. Twitter • Professional journalists on Facebook & Twitter •...
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The Sad Story Behind our Favorite Devices
LIBSYN BULLETS Ted Smith of the International Campaign for Responsible Technology (ICRT.co) explains what consumers can do to call the electronics industry to account to lessen the human and environmental costs of producing our favorite devices and operating our favorite online social networks. •...
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Social Networks: The Good, The Bad and The Horrifying
• Social networks: the good, the bad, and the horrifying • Ways in which info tech challenges are not new • Comparing being glued to your smartphone to having your nose buried in a book • Life in a novel isn’t real, but those online or via text are just as real as those around you • Why social...
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The Psychology of Technology Addiction
• Changes in brain structure after longterm online gaming • When does technology overuse become technology addiction? • What role do family history and genetics play in addictive behavior of any kind? • Why is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy helpful in overcoming technology addiction? • How is...
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How Humor Works at Work
Bullets: · How adding humor can improve your effectiveness · Humor can use the comic, absurd or incongruous · Five ways in which humor contributes to your success · Why humor is a necessity, not just nice to have
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Reinventing Yourself: Why and How
• Spider Graham interviews Hollis Thomases of ReinventionWorks • Hollis relates her own journey to finding an ideal livelihood as an aggregator and curator of all things reinvention • How to use the many skills acquired in your past careers to forge a new one • A lack of joy in what you do is a...
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When is an Online Threat Not a Threat?
• University of Miami School of Law professor, Dr. Mary Anne Franks, discusses the Supreme Court decision of the Elonis case • Mr. Elonis posted “lyrics” to his Facebook page about having his wife killed, wanting to assault her, wanting to blow up a kindergarten, among other wishes. •…
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Leaders to Gather at Digital Citizenship Summit
• Attorney, college instructor, blogger, speaker David Ryan Polgar explains the purpose and planning of #digcitsummit, the Digital Citizenship Summit scheduled for October 3, 2015, at the University of St. Joseph in West Hartford, Connecticut. http://digcitsummit.com • Dr. J expands on the…
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What Spotify and the President Do for Podcasting
Guest, Rob Walch, Vice President of Podcaster Relations with Libsyn There was a time when E-mail was the new kid on the block. America Online (AOL) was a major player, then anyone could get their own free hotmail.com address. As Erik Qualman mentioned in our recent episode, Customer Service Goes...
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Customer Service Goes Social!
The host of The Social Network show, experimental psychologist “Dr. J,” Jane Karwoski, welcomes her guest Erik Qualman to the show. Erik is often called a Digital Dale Carnegie. He is a #1 best-selling author and motivational keynote speaker, having spoken in 42 different countries. His book...
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Life Experience Can Land the Job
Do you ever find yourself exhilarated and exhausted by turns? Or maybe delving into seemingly unrelated areas of interest? Those are signs of your creative mind at work! And you may be surprised to learn of the benefits of your unorthodox approach to learning and career. Today, you’ll be hearing...
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Digital Literacy Classes Raise Other Scores
Diane Graber of Cyberwise: No Grownup Left Behind There’s some fear of the unknown for parents, because their kids are growing up in a world so different from the one they grew up in. Although that was true for an earlier generation or more, dangers seem to have multiplied. Principles of human...
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Don't Be Fooled by "The Cloud"!
Can you remember the first time you heard mention of The Cloud? For me it was a TV ad presenting a woman working on family photos—for some reason The Cloud was the answer to all her problems. Since then, this catchy concept has been wholeheartedly embraced by purveyors of convenience. And today...
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Why Does Your Customer Buy?
Spider Graham (co-author of Taking Down Goliath: The Digital Marketing Strategy for Beating Competitors with 100 Times Your Spending Power) talks with Jim Meskauskas, Co-founder and Chief Strategic Officer of Media Darwin. Jim helps clients develop an awesome business communication strategy. He…
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Audience Surveys--When Less Really is More!
"The Spider Graham Series" with guest, Jeremy Dalnes of PULSE INSIGHTS Spider Graham (co-author of Taking Down Goliath, veteran digital media buyer, seller, and producer, and long-time digital advertising, sales, and marketing practitioner) talks with Jeremy Dalnes about the myriad advantages of...
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CyberWise: No Grownup Left Behind!
Is the younger generation running digital circles around you? Thanks to our expert guests our listeners are familiar with many guidelines for parents, educators, and adults in general, who are confronting the challenges of the digital age. This episode goes one step farther, because Diana Graber…
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Still Working to Halt Online Abuse
Jayne (J. A.) Hitchcock is one of many individuals giving their all in the grass-roots, front-line effort to help children and teens cope with cyber abuse. Jayne heads up Working to Halt Online Abuse (haltabuse.org and haltabuseKTD.org) to give not only advice, but hands-on free assistance to...
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Cops, Community and Confrontation
With national concern about the relationship of police and the communities in which they work, The Social Network Show welcomes another episode of the National Crime Prevention Council Series that discusses this issue. Co-host Michelle Boykins, Senior Director of Communications introduces her...
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Cops and Communities: Rebuilding Trust
Are you concerned about the police involved shootings and the reactions of the communities around the country? Welcome to another episode of the National Crime Prevention Council Series with Co-host Michelle Boykins, Senior Director of Communications and her guest, Chief Gary MacNamara from the...
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Digital Parenting by Age & Stage
The Boston Red Sox named clinical and social psychologist Dr. Englander Most Valuable Educator of 2013 because of her work in technological aggression and how it interacts with peer abusiveness in general. She was the Special Editor for the Cyberbullying issue of the Journal of Social Sciences…
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Connect Ireland: Land of Opportunity for Business
Ireland’s economy was hit hard by the global financial crisis of 2007-08 and entered into economic depression in 2009. By 2012, unemployment reached 14.6%. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-2008Irisheconomic_downturn) In this interview with Jim Nico and Dr. J, Joanna Murphy, Chief Operations...
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Helping Kids Learn Here, There & Everywhere
For this interview, Dr. J asked Professor Katie Davis of the University of Washington Information School about her two upcoming studies funded by federal grants. The common theme is that learning takes place in lots of places, not just in school classrooms. They have a lot of fun discussing these...
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Beating Competitors with 100x Your Budget
Dr. J’s guest co-host Spider Graham invited Kevin M. Ryan to join in discussing the book they wrote together, Taking Down Goliath: The Digital Marketing Strategy for Beating Competitors with 100 Time Your Spending Power. Listening to this show is a great way to get to know the authors of this…
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Converse, Connect and Assess Before Selling Online
The Social Network Show welcomes you to the first episode of The Spider Graham Series. Much has been said about getting to know your target audience by listening to social media conversations before using the channel to offer a product or service. But how do you accomplish that? Rob “Spider”…
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Is Social Technology Making us More or Less Human?
Michelle Killebrew is a “social optimist.” In this episode of The Social Network Show, she speaks with listeners about her conviction that social technology is helping us be more human, rather than less, as many fear. Ms. Killebrew leads customer-centered marketing strategy for Social Business at...
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The National Crime Prevention Series: Protecting Your Home - What's New?
McGruff the Crime Dog is all about preventing crime, including keeping your home safe. McGruff’s human, Michelle Boykins, National Crime Prevention Council’s Senior Director of Communications and Dr. J discuss what to look for in home security systems, many of which are connected to you via the...
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The Anything Digital Series: Music and Talk Radio - On Air, Internet or Podcast?
The Social Network Show presents another episode of "The Anything Digital Series", with Michael Theodore, Senior Vice President, Learning and Development and General Manager of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Education Foundation and his guest, Joanna Bloor, the former Vice President of...
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The Anything Digital Series: "Wearable Tech: From Apple Watch to Cyborg?"
The Social Network Show presents another episode of "The Anything Digital Series", with Michael Theodore, Senior Vice President, Learning and Development and General Manager of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Education Foundation. "Wearable technology?" Are you one of the almost 3…
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Video-The Best Marketing Tool
Please help us find out more about you by taking the survey and be entered in the drawing to win $100. See details below. The Social Network Show welcomes Melanie Kraintz, Social Media Channel Strategist at Cisco Systems to the April 23, 2015 episode where she tells us about the advantages of…
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"Neither Unplugged nor Overplugged be"
Please help us out and take the very short survey listed at the bottom of this post. The Social Network Show welcomes David Ryan Polgar to the April 16, 2015 episode. David Ryan Polgar, attorney, educator, Communication Director at Copilot Family, contributing writer to The Good Men Project and...