Digital Highrise

Category: Social Media

  • Teaching Emotional Intelligence To Teenagers & Undoing the Mess That Was Created By Progress

    My Son came home from school and worked on an interesting project that teaches emotional skills. How to respond when things happen. It looked like this: You have to understand, this is a typical 1st grade school (or not typical) where the kids are psychotic. It’s survival of the fittest here. Maybe that is just…

  • Yo, Some Serious Branding Opportunity on @yoapp

    Yo has been on my phone for the past 6 months. It started during the war when Android phones in the US couldn’t get Red Alert updates. I was talking with my friend who made the app and I said to him, “why don’t you send those updates out on Twitter using an IFTTT formula” or…

  • PSA: YouTube Posts Your Comments To Google+, You Anti-Semite

    I know people are creeped out by Google sometimes, but I have a story to that will make your skin crawl. Aside from being disgusted by what I am about to write, chances are, it might start to wake some people up on how nothing on the web is anonymous. YouTube Videos Auto Post Themselves…

  • Beware Your Permissions and Secure Your Accounts

    I Have Personally Gotten Hacked… Twice You can’t be too safe online today. In the days of cyber attacks, heart bleed and other random threats you might find online, you need to secure yourself. And with so many random profiles and accounts, this can be really hard. Almost impossible. In fact, I have personally gotten…

  • Sharing Made Simple for the Compulsive Sharer to Share Simply (and easily)

    A lot of people approach me in person and comment on the sharing I do on-line. And truth be told, I share a lot. Ever since we made Aliyah, my social media posting has hit all time highs. Why? Simple. Keeping in touch is important and I want to share our life with our family…

  • Perception vs Reality & Scaring the S#*t Out Of My Daughter

    Sometimes our lives on social media can be deceiving. Sometimes things aren’t all they seem and our perfect little lives are a bit more complicated than seen. And sometimes, those perfect moments are a flat out lie. I agree with the sentiment my friend Sarah shares when she writes about the lies we tell on…

  • Automating Awesomeness With Google+ Magic

    It’s true I am sucker for a nifty new Google feature. But this last one blew me away! I was apparently late to learn this (yes, work actually keeps me busy), but apparently Google announced a feature in Google+ called Auto Awesomeness… Which already sounds amazing! Can You Automate Awesomeness?! Apparently yes! Here is what…