Watching the TechCrunch 50 conference of selected startups LIVE on my laptop as my dog swims off the dock reminds me of my dad’s theory that you can see a football game better at home than in person! For SheGeeks like me, this is comfy, democratized, internet access to a bigwig startup event of digerati sans exhaustive schmoozing, ego-dodging, and brain-groping with 1000 … [Read more...]
FitBit At TechCrunch 50: Launching Exercise Through Media
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: accelerometer, AppScout, CNET, DEMO, DemoPit, diabetes prevention, dieting, diets, entrepreneurs, exercise aids, FitBit, Healthy-Kids, HopeLab, kids startups, Me2, Me2Universe, Media, mindfulness, mobile devices, Nike ipod, Nike sport band, nutrition, obesity prevention, She's geeky, SheGeeks, start-up technology, startups, TechCrunch 50, Tim O'Reilly, UstreamTV, Venture Beat, youth culture
Shaping Youth Joins EcoLiteracy Coalition: No Child Left INSIDE
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...]
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