As a nonprofit, nonpartisan consortium, I’m always keenly aware when I’m being ‘played’ by both the ‘right and left’ of a political hot potato, and I strive to balance spin accordingly. But sometimes, legislation is just smack dab common sense for all, pairing centrist thinking with beneficial outcomes... Shaping Youth is breaking form in … [Read more...]
Shaping Youth Joins EcoLiteracy Coalition: No Child Left INSIDE
Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Chesapeake-Bay-Foundation, Crunchy-Parent, Earth-Awareness, EarthSeeds, Earthseeds-Project, Eco-Childs-Play, Environmental-Kids, FCC-Product-Placement-Coalition, Global-Good, Green-Classrooms, Green-Media-Youth, Green-Options, Green-Teens, Grist, Healthy-Kids, healthy-planet, Kids-Nature, LifeSchool, Media, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, NCLI, NCLICoalition.org, No-Child-Left-Inside, Outdoors-Children, Recycling-Kids, Richard-Louv, Sustainability, Treehugger
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