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Comment on Applying for a Job: Two Kinds of People by Michael

Michael — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:49:49 +0000

You’re welcome to link to anything on the site. Cheers.

Comment on Applying for a Job: Two Kinds of People by Jaqueline Panama

Jaqueline Panama — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:16:11 +0000

I hope you would not mind if I placed a part of this on my univeristy blog?

Comment on Review of Johnny Bunko: A Presentation by Rosalind Panama

Rosalind Panama — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:16:11 +0000

Hello. Fantastic job, if I wasn’t so busy with my school work I read your entire site. Thanks!

Comment on Textbooks at a reasonable price, please by Michael

Michael — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:34:06 +0000

I just read that Fast Company article as well, Chris, and wonder what the future holds for higher ed. A lot of schools are facing declining enrollment, budget and staff cuts. The old model needs some adjustments.

Comment on Textbooks at a reasonable price, please by Chris Quick

Chris Quick — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:07:57 +0000

As a grad student, I very much appreciate your perspective on textbooks and hope more instructors follow your lead. Opportunities to price shop and buy used online help defray costs some, but still I fork over hundreds of dollars for poorly-written, dated textbooks and lament how many excellent trade books on my Amazon wish list I could have bought instead. I’d love to come take your class!

The September issue of Fast Company has an excellent article, “Who Needs Harvard,” about how web 2.0 technology is opening up access to high quality educational resources and course content and seems poised to change the shape of higher education. I hope one change that comes on the coattails of this progress is lower costs of textbooks and course materials and better quality in the materials we do have to purchase.

Comment on Textbooks at a reasonable price, please by Troy Parrish

Troy Parrish — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:58:23 +0000

My daughter and I in an attempt to combat the issue of high costs and the very paltry offerings in the buy back programs decided to create a way for her and the students at her school to exchange information on used text books. I created CC Book Exchange (http://ccbookexchange.com) for students to use free of charge to list their used books for sale as well as buy them from others. We hope as many as possible will make use of the site in order to provide a better value for the texts students use. Just our way of trying to contribute.

Comment on Tech Support Mess by Andy Sernovitz

Andy Sernovitz — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:58:42 +0000

Great post Michael.

My thoughts: Companies like this will go out of business.

If they can’t 1) handle basic customer service requests and 2) treat their customers with respect they don’t deserve to survive.

In a word-of-mouth world, you can not treat consumers poorly (or like thieves) and not have consequences. Our job is to earn the respect and recommendation of our customers. It starts with respect.

I wish you would share the name of the company so we can all avoid them.

Andy Sernovitz
Author
Word of Mouth Marketing

Comment on Tech Support Mess by Brian Johnson

Brian Johnson — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:01:45 +0000

Interesting stuff, Michael. And too, too true.

I would have been interested to know the company with which you were dealing. It’s valuable to have information like this because it could change your decision between two potential pieces of software.

Comment on Skype + iPhone, Part 3 by Michael

Michael — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:51:01 +0000

Not sure, Tyler (don’t have the iPhone in front of me); if I had to guess, though, I’d say it probably doesn’t work in landscape orientation.

Comment on Skype + iPhone, Part 3 by tyler

tyler — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:29:50 +0000

Does the app support landscape functionality? The very bottom of my iPhone has become non-responsive to touch making accessing numbers nearly impossible on most apps.