About Robin
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.
Currently, she’s working with the CEA to produce a series of conferences and exhibits at CES 2009. Kids@Play is devoted to looking at the digital life of today’s kids and Silvers Summit looks at technology through the eyes of the mature adult. She’ll also be producing the Last Gadget Standing at CES/hometech in Dubai this May.
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’s 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.”
Raskin lives in New York City and the Hudson Valley with her husband, three children who return occasionally, and a pile of ever-changing gadgets.
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