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Skoollive attempts comeback with new website.

July 30, 2016
Skoollive attempts comeback with new website.

Here is a sample of Skoollive’s new website.
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Skoollive: Back from the dead?

July 3, 2016
Skoollive: Back from the dead?

Advocate?  Innovate?  Connect?  Inspire? This appears to be the look of Skoollive’s new website.  This kiddie-marketing company has tried to reinvent itself several times before. This time let’s hope Skoollive will be more transparent with schools, parents, and the public. Don’t hold your breath.
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“I don’t think we would be gaining very much from this at all.”

January 29, 2016
“I don’t think we would be gaining very much from this at all.”

From Jim Metrock:  Last year I posted an article about Skoollive being rejected by Plattsmouth, Nebraska public schools.  I found this longer article about the vote.  A quote by board member Karen Parsons may be helpful to other school board members across the country. “I seriously don’t see how this would help us,” Karen Parsons, board member, said....
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The National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy is not happy with Skoollive.

January 28, 2016
The National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy is not happy with Skoollive.

  The National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy is an organization that works to safeguard student privacy from predatory military recruitment practices. The NCPSP has written about Skoollive.  You don’t have to be a psychic to know they’re not happy about Skoollive’s hallway billboards (kiosks). SkoolLive – Skool Jive – A new, interactive digital invasion of...
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Skoollive readies advertising assault on skoolkids.

January 24, 2016
Skoollive readies advertising assault on skoolkids.

              From Jim Metrock:   Digi International makes cellular routers.  In its recent first quarter financial release, the company boasts of winning the Skoollive account.  I post this because it gives schools and the public more insight into Skoollive’s real intentions. The key sentence is: The interactive ability allows advertisers to engage...
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Major Jason C. Hall reporting for Skoollive duty.

January 15, 2016
Major Jason C. Hall reporting for Skoollive duty.

From Jim Metrock:  The newest salesman for Skoollive is Jason Hall.  I don’t quite understand Skoollive’s military plans, but I am sure it will be entertaining.  
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Too cool for Skool.

January 13, 2016
Too cool for Skool.

    No comment needed. http://www.skoollive.com/#!rates/dg008
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How Skoollive plans to get your child’s phone number

January 3, 2016


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Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic: Skoollive updates website

December 5, 2015
Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic: Skoollive updates website

  From Jim Metrock:  Skoollive is still afloat!   The company has been quietly rebranding itself as “the first nationwide, on-campus digital network.”  No joke.  That’s what they are calling themselves now. They have changed their website (www.skoollive.com) but they still have the same product and business model that so underwhelmed American schools in 2014. But who...
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Evaluating Skoollive’s Twitter account.

November 11, 2015
Evaluating Skoollive’s Twitter account.

From Jim Metrock: This is a screen shot of Skoollive’s Twitter page taken today November 10. After three years on Twitter and after extensive regional and national marketing efforts, the company has managed to accumulate 91 followers (and two of those are Obligation and the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood).  Having only 16 “likes”...
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