Forbes Website Picks up Story on Clemson's SMLC

Forbes Magazine, a pillar in the literary community, featured the press release about the SMLC on its Website this week. For my students, and me, this has been a story about a quirky little class that has received A LOT of attention.

What's really cool?  Absent the help from Dell, the CyberInstitute, or Radian6, we'd still have been ** talking about ** as opposed to actually ** LISTENING to ** conversations on the Social Web.

Complaints that academe has sold out to industry feel more than a little specious at times like these ... Absent industry support, it would be much harder to teach students the critical thinking and applied skills necessary to survive in our changing economy ... with government stepping off the bus ... and underfunding higher ed ... it's as natural as a duck swimming in water ... to turn to industry for resources necessary to teach those skills ... and realize Thomas Green Clemson's vision of equipping our students to become leaders for South Carolina's next 100 years.