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Youth Call to Service: MLK Day Off? Make It a Day On!

January 16, 2009 by Amy Jussel 10 Comments

Jan. 16, 2017 Update This year it's particularly poignant to contrast the ethics, integrity and service values of our outgoing President Obama with the stark greed, corruption, and narcissism of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: A day on not a day off, activism, agents of change, America Serves, America's Promise Alliance, AmeriCorps, campus kitchens project, cause marketing, causes, change, changebloggers, Dr. King, eco, Environment, global youth service, guidestar, inspiration, King Center, leadership, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Junior, MLK, MLK Day of Service, MLK Day.gov, network for good, Obama, peace, Peace Corps, pledge, Renew America Together, social actions, social-media, take action, Trumpian times, urban youth, USA Service, Usa Service.org, volunteering, youth mobilization, youth service america, YSA

Celebrate My Birthday By Helping Beth Kanter Celebrate Hers!

January 4, 2009 by Amy Jussel 10 Comments

Visual Insight guru Eileen Clegg sent me this lovely card (at left) along with a sweet sentiment about “trips around the sun” prompting a recall of a kindergarten tradition I want to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Age-of-Conversation, Amy-Jussel, AOC, Beth-Kanter, big planet, birthday cause app, Birthday celebrations, Cambodia, Caring Bridge, cause marketing, causes, changing the present, Collaboratory, Crowcrastination, donations, Drew McClellan, Eileen Clegg, Facebook, Facebook applications, FB apps, fundraising, Gavin Heaton, giving, global peace, GWLN, Kids, kindergarten, NextNow, nonprofit entrepreneurs, nonprofits, outreach, Pakistan India conflict, Peets eCups, receiving, secret worldwide birthday, Sharing Foundation, Simi Raheal, small world, Smart Mobs, social-media, suicide prevention, teens, traditions, Trips Around the Sun, Visual Insight, widgets, WLW, world peace, youth

Reverse Trick or Treating? Isn’t That, Um, Marketing?

October 31, 2008 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

As one who is always looking for an easy ‘twofer’ (whether it’s a sunscreen that moisturizes, an inside-out raincoat, or a trick or treating door-knock to recycle unused toys) I started pondering the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth Tagged With: candy, cause marketing, causes, cellphones, characters, children, costumes, do not mail, door to door, doorbell ringing, Eco-Childs-Play, elections, Environment, fair trade chocoloates, Forest Ethics, Green Halloween, green teen, Halloween, Kids, kids causes, lenscrafters, lions club, Obama, petitions, precycling, recycling, reverse trick or treating, sales calls, shilling, Sight-Night, sightnight, solicitation, Sustainability, teens, Trick or treat, trick or treating for good, trick-or-treating, tweens, twofer, unicef, vegan Halloween

“Check It Out! I Got A Sponsor For My Race!” A Wellness Media Mashup

October 29, 2008 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Belated congratulations to our own Shaping Youth Nutrition MA, RD, and ACSM Certified Health Fitness Correspondent Rebecca Scritchfield, (yes, those letters ALL matter, as she’s worked her tail … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: +3, +3 Network, Americans diabetes, bicycling, causes, charitable giving, children, CSR, cycling, diabetes, Diabetes Action Team, diabetes prevention, Diabetes Research and Education, diabetic connect, dietary intake, dlife.com, fitness, fitness challenge, fundraising, globesity, goals, GPS mobile, health, Health 2.0, I survived Hurricane Hannah, IDEO, iphone apps, Making it count, marathons, Marine Corp Marathon, Me to We, millennials, motivation, nutrition, Plus 3 Network, Plus3 Network, privacy data, race, Rebeca Boyte, Rebecca Scritchfield, rewards, Rick Sutton, runners, running, safe routes to school, social networking, social-media, sponsors, sweat equity into social currency, teens, The Tech, track, Trek, Tudiabetes, wellness, Wellness 2.0

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