Author Archives: Marcia Hansen

About Marcia Hansen

As Editor of Inside Scoop, Marcia has responsibility for the content and conversations you find on Inside Scoop. She joined Intel in July 2010 as a social media marketing manager with the Digital Marketing group and manages consumer and corporate social media projects. Prior to working at Intel, Marcia was at Allstate Insurance where she pioneered their use of social media, including hosting a weekly Internet radio show featuring car and driving tips for women. She is an active participant in the social media space and at face-to-face events where she speaks and leads workshops on social media topics. Marcia holds an M.A. from the University of Missouri where she completed a thesis on digital literacies and her research interests spanned network rhetorics, new media/digital composition, and how teachers and students can use social technologies for learning. She's passionate about how people use new technologies to communicate and share parts of their identities online, as well as how companies use social technologies to communicate with consumers. Previously, Marcia worked for Southern Methodist University, Verizon.com, and was once one of five interns to design and develop GTE's first integrated HR Intranet. You can connect with Marcia Hansen on Twitter, at m2h blogs, or on Facebook. When she has time off, she likes to explore new places on her Honda Shadow 1100 and take pictures to post to her Flickr photostream. Ever curious, Marcia's goal is to see and experience as much of the world as possible.

The Technology Fast Challenge

In  the 80s, kids watched too much TV. Then along came the 90s and “Internet Addiction.” What did the early years of the 21st Century bring us? Let’s call it “Technology Super Abundance.” No, make that “Technology Super Abundance–Extreme Edition.” And that’s a great thing, isn’t it? I love all the choices! Earlier generations were [...] Read more >

Top 20 Text Abbreviations You Should Know

In the last post we talked about the Technology Generation Gap and how using new technology isn’t always easy for the older generation to adapt to. Well, there is even more bad news for parents and grandparents who are trying to keep up because there’s one very popular technology that comes with its own language. Texting! [...] Read more >

The Technology Generation Gap

We’ve talked about how the all the latest technologies come together in the ultra responsive, ultra sleek Ultrabook to make, “everything else seem old-fashioned.” But one thing we haven’t discussed is something called “The Technology Generation Gap”. If you’ve ever had a parent ask you how to twit, then you know exactly what we’re talking [...] Read more >

Ultrabook Project: Australian Slang

One of the biggest advantages that will.i.am and the Ultrabook Project team had while traveling in Australia was the fact that almost everybody spoke English. Tokyo, Mexico City and Seoul were amazing places to visit, but the team felt limited by always having to rely on someone else to translate what was being said. They [...] Read more >

Ultrabook – Top 12 Greatest Leaps in Technology, Part 1

In our most recent Ultrabook campaign, we launched Ultrabook videos that show how the latest technological innovations come together in the Ultrabook to make, “everything else seem old-fashioned.” It started us thinking about other great inventions that can be considered the greatest leaps in technology. With every generation, technology delivers advances that the previous generation [...] Read more >

The Ultrabook Project: Vivid Sydney

Traveling from city-to-city, will.i.am and the Ultrabook Project team has had quite an adventure exploring each new location, meeting its people, listening for its voice, and then creating a new sound unique to that city’s culture. The next stop on the journey is Sydney, Australia, and barely off the plane, will.i.am heads into town to [...] Read more >