Summary

Author, Media Consultant, Speaker, and Event Creator

Veteran tech journalist and founder of Living in Digital Times, created CES Last Gadget Standing event, web Consultant at The Princeton Review and freelance author for magazines including PC Magazine, Infoworld, Newsday, Working Woman. Previously the Editor in Chief of FamilyPC, editor of PC Magazine, and a columnist for USA Today Online and the Gannett News Service.

Bio

Robin Raskin has been translating technology into consumer friendly terms for more than 25 years. Today, as a writer, media consultant, speaker, and event creator, she spends a great deal of her time focusing on family life in a digital world.

Raskin is featured as a daily columnist on Yahoo! Tech. She also cofounded The Sandbox Summit: A Playdate With Technology, which debuted at CES 2008 as a conference and exhibit dedicated to exploring the world of digital kids.

Raskin’s been the editor-in-chief of FamilyPC, editor of PC Magazine, and columnist for USA Today Online and the Gannett News Service, winning numerous prizes for her coverage of technology. She’s has authored six books about parenting in the digital age, for publishers including Random House, Simon and Schuster, and Hyperion. Her most recent book, A Parents’ Guide to College Life (Random House, 2006) provides parents with practical answers to 180 “must ask” questions.

She has served as a consultant and spokesperson for high tech companies including Nickelodeon, Intel, Microsoft, SONY, Disney Publishing, Ziff Davis Publishing, and Gruner and Jahr. She also works with The Princeton Review, and ApplyWise, helping them create their digital experience for education.

Raskin produced her own monthly television tours and has appeared on NBC Early Today, MSNBC, Live With Regis and Kelly, CBS Early Show, and Fox’s Good Day New York, and others. As a freelance writer, her work has appeared in such magazines as RedBook, Real Simple, FamilyCircle, PC World, PC Week, InfoWorld, Working Mother, Working Woman, Child, and Newsday.

Raskin is an outspoken advocate for parental involvement in raising digital kids. She frequently addresses parents and educators, policy makers, and the high tech industry on topics like Internet safety and raising digital kids. Raskin has testified before the Federal Trade Commission on Internet safety, presented research to then-Vice President Gore on parental technology, and was part of then-First Lady Hillary Clinton’s series of meetings for women editors. She also served on the National Research Council’s Committee, which published “Tools and Strategies for Protecting Kids From Pornography and Their Applicability to Other Inappropriate Internet Content.”

Links to Robin

• www.robinraskin.com
• twitter.com/robinr
• technologizer.com/author/robinraskin