Robin Raskin

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

Currently she’s featured as a columnist on Yahoo! Tech. She'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. Raskin 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 provides parents with practical answers to 180 “must ask” questions.

She's served as a consultant to both publishing and high tech companies helping them reach consumers who want to benefit from the connected lifestyle. Her client list includes: Nickelodeon, Intel, Microsoft, SONY, Disney Publishing, Ziff Davis Publishing and Gruner and Jahr. She also serves as a new media consultant at The Princeton Review, helping them create their digital experience for their customers.

Raskin has produced her own monthly television tours and has appeared onEarly Today, MSNBC, Live with Regis and Kelly, CBS Early Show, and Fox's Good Day New York. As a freelance writer her work appeared in such magazines as PC World, PC Week, InfoWorld, Working Mother, Working Woman, Child and Newsday.

An outspoken advocate for parental involvement in raising digital kids, she frequently addresses parents and educators, policy makers, the high tech industry on the topics “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 Committee which published Tools and Strategies for Protecting Kids from Pornography and Their Applicability to Other Inappropriate Internet Content.

Topics

Family Life in a Digital World and What You Can Do About It

A Parents’ Guide to College Life