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Summer Camp and Recreation Directors Venturing into Social Media

October 23rd, 2008 · Comments

I have a few workshops coming up this fall where I will be speaking to summer camp directors, parks and recreation administrators, psychologists, and school superintendents about the value of social media and the new media revolution.  Hopefully not overwhelming them in the process. There is a digital divide between those seasoned veterans and the [...]

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Tags: facebook · marketing · myspace · podcast · professional development · social media · technology

Blog World and New Media Expo 2008 - Summer Camps Can Learn to Incorporate New Media

August 29th, 2008 · Comments

Summer Camps have often been slow to adopt new technology.  There are a few reasons for this:

Many traditional camps focus on getting children outdoors and participating in activities that the cannot normally do at home.
A large group of the well established camp directors and owners did not grow up with new media and [...]

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Tags: professional development · technology

New Media Conference for Camp Directors Interested in Technology

June 1st, 2008 · Comments

The New Media Expo is billed as the world’s most popular convention for podcasters, bloggers and online content creators. While August 14-16 is not the most ideal for a summer camp director to be thinking about professional development, this is a conference worth leaving camp for - especially if you are interested in new [...]

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Tags: marketing · myspace · professional development · social media · technology · teens

What If We Ran Summer Camp Like Twitter?

May 25th, 2008 · Comments

Recently, Twitter, a micro-blogging platform, has been having more technical issues. As camp season hits high gear for camp directors around the country, I was wondering what it would be like if I could send error messages like twitter does when my system gets overloaded.
Too many incoming phone calls [...]

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Tags: ACA · customer service · humor · technology · twitter