Does California’s Consumer Data Protection law apply to your educational institution (even if you are not in California)? By Bill Miles | February 15, 2019 More news on the state law privacy landscape from last year. On June 28, 2018, the California legislature passed and the governor signed the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) [...]
Flickr is Deleting Photos of Over-Limit Users By Drew Millikin | February 7, 2019 Months ago, Flickr announced that on February 5, 2019, the free plan would be limited to a mere 1,000 photos. The platform previously offered up to 1 terabyte of storage for all its free users. Now, any photos exceeding this [...]
Facebook and School Data: The Conundrum After exposing the personal and private photos of as many as 6.8 million users to third party apps back in December, Facebook has had a rough stretch wrapping up 2018. [Source: Facebook reveals bug exposed 6.8 million users' photos - CNN]. According to CNN, “The company said it [...]
Top 3 Takeaways from TABS 2018 By Drew Millikin | December 5, 2018 Recently, The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) held their annual conference from November 29 - December 1 in Washington D.C. With over 115 individual sessions packed into an intensive day-and-a-half, it was a short, but content-rich professional development opportunity. This year, [...]
EMA 2018 | Highlights from Team Vidigami By Drew Millikin | September 21, 2018 The Enrollment Management Association’s annual conference is the largest independent school admission focused event on the calendar. This year, it was held in San Diego, and it was the largest yet, with over 1,200 attendees from schools around the world! [...]
Why Private Schools Need A Private Network to Manage Media Like many businesses, schools are quickly adopting social media sharing platforms as tools to communicate and engage with their customers (current and prospective families, donors, alumni). But although sharing is at the heart and soul of any community, we must also be mindful [...]
