June 13, 2010 One week from Father’s Day and media is awash with ubiquitous tie and techie ads for Father’s Day finds. Meh. Better ideas? Experiential fun for memories in the making... How would YOU fill in the blank, “My Daddy Taught Me To…?” It’s no secret I’m a water rat and an island girl who spent much of childhood splashing in the surf or sprawled on one of Hawaii’s … [Read more...]
Meaningful Media for Father’s Day: My Daddy Taught Me To…
Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: activism, aquatic, books with meaning, clean water, coastal stewards, daddy bloggers, Dads, dolphins, Elf-Island, Father's Day, fatherhood, Fathers Day 2010, gaming for good, GoodQuests, Green media, Green-Media-Youth, Gulf oilspill kids, healthy-planet, Joe Tomarchio, Joseph Tomarchio, Kids-Nature, male penguins, marinelife, meaningful media, My Daddy Taught Me to Surf, nature, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, NCLI, Ocean Conservancy, oil spill, Papas, Parenting papas, Richard-Louv, Ridley turtles, Sea Turtles, seahorse fathers, sealife, surfing, Surfrider Foundation, Taught Me To Books, TaughtMe2, virtual world wildaid, waves, World Wildlife Fund, Wyland, Xeko
Motrin, Media Mamas and Twitter Tirades: Marcom Blunders Redux
“When will they ever learn? When will they eeeeeeeever learn?” With apologies to Pete Seeger this media mama is having a déjà vu moment blinking back to the corporate missteps of Target underestimating the social media sphere and choosing not to acknowledge “alternative media’s” customer concerns. Same song, second verse, only … [Read more...]
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