I was AWOL at CES as my IBM went MIA. Translated? You're SOL (simply outta luck) if you're seeking a fresh thread on the big Consumer Electronics Show toys and tactics targeting kids at the Kids at Play summit, until I can reconvene with colleagues or TechMamas that were present to interview them and/or pitch a guest editorial. I tried, I really tried to get there. The … [Read more...]
Kids@Play: Elf Island Unlocks the Secret to Parent Approval
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Product Placement, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Brain Based Business, brandwashing, Case for Make Believe, CES, CES Kids summit agenda, change begins with me, Consumer Electronics Show 2009, digital technology kids, digital-natives, Dizzywood, eco literacy, electronics, Elf-Island, fitness kids, focus, gaming, gaming for good, gizmos, Good Quest, have fun do good, high tech toys, Humanitarians, iphone filters for kids, Izzy-Neis, Kids, Kids at play summit, kids brains, Kids@Play, KidsAtPlay, Liz and Craig Kronenberger, Mattel, Mattel Mind Flex, MC Milker, memory games, Mirrored Gaming, new media, No-Child-Left-Inside, open ended play, Packaging-Girlhood, Pamela Poole, physical health kids, Planet Soccer, power of play, SafeEyes mobile, Sandbox Summit, social issue games, stick and cardboard, Strong Museum of Play, Susan Linn, Tech mamas, teens, teens in tech, theta waves, Toy Hall of Fame, value of unstructured play, video games, Virtual-Worlds, Wii Are Family, Wii Mii, youth, Zookazoo
Young Innovators: Get Out of the Garage and Into the Marketplace!
Calling all social media wünderkind, changebloggers, and humanitarian twitterati and digerati of the millennial set (yes, this means you, Alex Steed) there’s ‘gold in them thar’ hills!’ (ok, that phrase comes from either a Yosemite Sam cartoon or a cowboy parody, but either way, it shows it’s in my lexicon, revealing I’m WAY too old to … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Advocates-for-youth, Alex Steed, Beth-Kanter, Cathy N. Davidson, changebloggers, Changemakers, Chris Brogan, Digital, Digital Media Learning, digital-natives, Digizens, DML, DML Competition, Grants, Hastac, Hastac Needle, Humanists, Humanitarians, Internships, Isis, MacArthur-Foundation, Media, Millenials, Millenials Changing America, NetSquared, NP Tech, participatory learning, Social citizens, Social entrepreneurs, social-media, YMR, Young Innovator Awards, Young Innovators, Youth Ideas, Youth Media Reporter, Youth Noise
Teen Talk Equals Ticketing, Even Driving Hands-Free
Well, it’s D-day for driving, teens. Much like the KFF study on teen media multitasking, lawmakers in California, cellphone capitol of the über-wired, have decided kids are driven to distraction, so it's now officially ticket-city for teens...even if you’re using hands-free wireless. (DMV details here) Don’t ask me how the police can tell the … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Consumerism, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Shaping Youth Tagged With: AskPatty, BlogHer, BlueTooth, California-Cellphone-Law July-1, cell-technology, cellular-youth, digital-natives, DMV-CA-Cellphone-youth-laws, driver-safety-teens-insurance-rates, Hands-Free-Cellphone-Law, handsfree-mobile, Jody-DeVere, mobile-laws, multitasking, New-Teen-Cellphone-Law-CA-Washington, Steve-Hymon, Teen-Auto-safety, teens, texting-while-driving, tickets-fines-celluse