Oct. 21, 2009 What if I told you a few of my favorite advice slingers and youth analysis pros aren’t even parents at all? There’s Anastasia Goodstein of Ypulse speaking from the GenX pulpit (ok, her days are numbered; she’s about to go on maternity leave) and Courtney Macavinta of RespectRx...Along with wünderkind GenY entrepreneur and media machine Vanessa Van Petten, … [Read more...]
Josh in a Box: Helpful Advice For Parents of Teens!
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: advice, advice slingers, Anastasia-Goodstein, as seen on TV, attention, be yourself, being labeled, branding, bullying, challenging, childhood, choices, cliques, core values, Dear Abby for teens, Digital, empowerment, foster parents, freak, free to be me, Gen X, Gen Y, generation, Global Fund for Women, healthy, Hey Josh for Grownups, Hey Josh!, Hey Josh.com, identity, In Her Shoes, influences, inspiring, Inspiring-Teens, Josh in a box, Josh Shipp, Jump Shipp, Kids, know who you are, labeling, marketing, Media-as-super-peer, Millenials, motivational speakers, MTV, negative labels, Odd Girl Out, outsider, parenting, Peer pressure, Preteen-Identity, pundits, punk, Radical Parenting, reality, relational aggression, relationships, Respect Rx, School Loop, teacup parenting, teens, teens and parents, troubled teens, vanessa van petten, verbal abuse, who am I?, YPulse
Shaping Youth At Ypulse 2009: Send In Your Priorities
May 1, 2009 Much like the scene in the new Disneynature Earth documentary where the lions and the elephants are drinking from the same watering hole, Shaping Youth has been invited to share space among the über-marketers at the YPulse Mashup June 1 and 2 as well as the Tweens Online (Un)Conference taking place the day prior. Attending as ‘press’ sends a positive sign that … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 2009 Youth Marketing Mashup, American-Teen, Anastasia-Goodstein, branding, CCFC, Connect Safely, Consuming kids, D.A.R.E., Daughters.com, digital-natives, Disneynature Earth, Dizzywood, e-havior, e-learning, Elf-Island, ethical marketing, Global Kids, HopeLab, internet-safety, IRB, Isis-Inc, Izzy-Neis, Kids Online, Mashup, Nancy-Gruver, NetFamily-News, New-Moon-Girl-Media, online communities, Packaging-Girlhood, Privo, ReMission, SexTech, social-media, teens, teens in tech, totally wired, tweens, Twitter, Unconference, Virtual-Worlds, youth, YPulse, zest books
Teens and Technology: Countdown to YPulse National Mashup ’08!
“There are people who believe that for-profit marketing and non-profit youth media or education can’t exist in the same place. I disagree. That’s part of the reason why I call these events ‘Mashups,’ said YPulse founder Anastasia Goodstein. “They pull together people who don’t normally attend the same event.” Whoa, I’ll … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 2008-YPulse-Mashup, Adinas-Deck, Age-of-Conversation, American-Teen, Anastasia-Goodstein, Blyk, citizen-journalism, consumption, Cyberbullying, E.T., Earthseeds-Project, Erase-Hate, Fuse, Habbo, InfoBus, Internet-safety-teens, JacketFlap, Larry-Magid, machinima, mDisney, mig33, mobile-social, nonprofits, Quantum-ShiftTV, Quest2Change-Real-Life, readergirlz, RespectRx, Socialight, teens, Tiny-Pictures, tweens, Virtual-Worlds, youth-advocates, youth-marketing, YPulse-National-Mashup, YPulse-Research