Using Social Media Technologies to Enhance Online Learning
 

Author Biographies

Hershey H. Friedman is a Professor of Business in the Finance and Business Management Department of Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is Co-Chair of the Department and is Director of the Business Programs. He also held the Bernard H. Stern Chair of Humor and was a Murray Koppelman Professor. Prof. Friedman holds a B.A. and M.A. from Brooklyn College, an MBA from Baruch College, and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of City University of New York. He has published more than 200 articles in journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics, John Ben Sheppard Journal of Practical Leadership, Business Horizon, Journal of Communication, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Applied Psychology, Decision Sciences, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Simulation, Journal of the Market Research Society, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, and the Journal of Systems and Software. He can be reached at x.friedman@att.net.

Linda Weiser Friedman is a Professor of Statistics & Computer Information Systems in the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY, New York. She received her Ph.D. degree in Operations research in 1983 from Polytechnic Institute of New York, now Polytechnic University, in Brooklyn, New York. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Behavioral Science, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Journal of Systems and Software, and Simulation. She has published two books, Comparative Programming Languages (Prentice Hall) and The Simulation Metamodel (Kluwer), as well as fiction and poetry. Dr. Friedman has been on the CUNY doctoral faculty in Computer Science since 1991 and on the CUNY doctoral faculty in Business since 1993. She is listed in Who’s Who in American Education and Who’s Who of American Women. She can be reached at Linda.Friedman@baruch.cuny.edu.