“The three-quarters of 18 to 29 year-olds who have profiles on social networks are likely wondering why online course offerings aren’t nearly as enticing as the content that they find on their favorite social websites.” Social media is everywhere. Now your parents are on Facebook, Twitter is an essential part of business strategy and even [...]

This week, March 7-13, marks the 12th Annual National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW). The purpose of this week is to encourage consumers to be more knowledgeable about what their law-protected rights are as consumers. Digging a little deeper into the consumer.gov website, I found many useful tools consumers should use to educate themselves on a [...]

21st Century E-Learning from the Perspective of a Wired Wisconsin Intern As a college student in 2010, technology affects my education every day. My experience is starkly different from my mother who attended the same university many years ago or even my brother who attended the same university just 3 years ago. Last semester, for [...]

Stories of people getting laid off and companies closing dominated many of the headlines in 2009. Sad times for hundreds of thousands of people with the unemployment rate rivaling that of the Great Depression. When Wired Wisconsin was first beginning, we talked a lot about what technology issues our organization should focus energy on. High-Tech [...]