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Disney’s Citizen Kid: November Media Thankfulness

November 4, 2014 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Nov. 4, 2014 Disney's Citizen Kid Kicks off our Media/Marketing Month of ThankfulnessI love the concept of media shining the spotlight on extraordinary kids doing prosocial things, whether it’s … [Read more...]

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The Science of Character: Hosted by Shaping Youth and Reach and Teach

March 17, 2014 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Mar. 20, 2014 Premiering worldwide! Attention students of life...“There are 7.1 billion people on the planet, and each one of us has a unique character,” opens The Science of Character filmmaker and … [Read more...]

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Meetup.com: Bringing Communities Together Post 9-11

September 11, 2011 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

9-11-11 On this decade anniversary of a horrific worldchanging event, with media spinning stories of heroes, hearts and homelands forever impacted, I’m turning to the positive births of OFFLINE … [Read more...]

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Media That Uplifts & Inspires: Positive Picks For Youth Outreach

May 11, 2011 by Amy Jussel 16 Comments

Sept. 10, 2016 Update World Suicide Prevention Day is flooding my Twitter account, with poignant posts pointing to the desperate need for mental health resources and outreach, especially among youth … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: adversity, Age-of-Conversation, Amy-Jussel, Asset Based Thinking, bullying, Change the way you see everything, children and adolescent depression, Disney, gender and media portrayals, Get through tough times, GLSEN, Hank Wasiak, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, HGHW, Hollywood Health and Society, humanity, I Can Helpline, Inspire Foundation, intervention, It Gets Better, Josh Shipp, kids depression, Kids health, lead a happier life, liberty, Life, Liz J Meyer, Mental Health Month, mHealth, paths to happiness, PBG, Pixar, positive psychology, Project Happiness, pursuit of happiness, Reach Out Australia, reachout, ReachOut in the USA, SEL, social and emotional education, social change, social media activism, spark change, SPARK! summit, teaching tolerance, Teen's Guide to World Domination, teens depression, The Trevor Project, Toy Story, troubled teens, Woody, youth motivational speakers

Babies Movie: Through The Lens of a Young Teen

May 11, 2010 by Amy Jussel 15 Comments

May 11, 2010 I tried to warn her, “This isn’t some wham- bam fast-paced action thriller or rom-com dramedy, but Babies IS my movie choice for Mother’s Day, ok?” In preparation, I showed her the … [Read more...]

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CoLABoratory of Creativity: Program for the Future 2010

March 1, 2010 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

March 1, 2010 Once upon a time, I spent 25+ years as a creative director at virtual agency: Copy/Concepts. Collaboration came very naturally to me, as we all divvied up our specialty areas and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Claudia L'Amoreaux, Claudia Welss, Co-evolution, CoLABoratory, Collaboration 2010, collaborative learning, collective intelligence, collective knowledge, Digital, Doug Engelbart, Douglas C. Engelbart, eco, education, Eileen Clegg, firing up the global brain, Future Talk, futurists, Google wave, Hiroshi Ishii, Humanists, humanity, humanity ascending, IFTF, innovation, IO brush, Jim Schuyler, learning, learnlets, Mei Lin Fung, MIT Media Lab, NextNow Collaboratory, PFTF, Ph.D., PhD jokes, problem solving, Program for the Future, Sam Hahn, save the planet, sims, simulation, solutions, Tech Museum, technology, The Tech, Valerie Landau, Visual Insight, visualization tools, World resources, WRSC

The Perfect Gift for a Man: Reinventing Manhood (Book)

December 9, 2009 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

Dec. 9, 2009 And now for the GOOD news! Yesterday for I wrote about ‘boys being turned into monsters’ with toxic marketing proliferation about what it means to be masculine, rolling out narrowcast … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: ActNow, AOC, AOC1, AOC2, AOC3, APA, Australia, becoming a man, book giveaway, boys, boys to men, Buffed-Boys, change agents, collaborative book, courageous men, depression, Derrick Kikuchi, Drew McClellan, Gavin Heaton, Gender, GIJoe, humanity, identity, Inspire Foundation, male heroes, male stereotypes, males, manhood, manhood for amateurs, ManWeek, masculinity, Media stereotypes, men, men and media, monster, Muscle-Men, Packaging-Boyhood, Packaging-Girlhood, peace, reach and teach, Reach Out, reinvention, Ron Mattocks, self-worth, Servant of Chaos, slackers, social-media, suicide, suicide prevention, superheroes, teens, The Age of Conversation, The Good Men Project, The Perfect Gift for a Man, Tikkun Daily, toxic cues to kids, warrior men

Final 48 Hours! Vote Girl Child Network’s Betty Makoni CNN Hero ’09!

November 17, 2009 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

Nov. 17, 2009 Last week, when the Guardian reported, “Tens of thousands of children have been sexually abused in Zimbabwe in a growing epidemic that has shocked human rights activists,” I blinked back … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, People Shaping Youth, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Africa, AIDS, Beth-Kanter, Betty Makoni, child abuse, child rape, CNN Hero 2009, CNN Heroes, commercial sex industry, documentary, film, Forbes women, GEMSGIRLS, Girl Child Network, Girl Effect, girl revolution, girls, girls leadership, Global Fund for Women, GWLN.org, Hero of the year, HIV, human rights, humanity, In Her Shoes, Indie film, leaders, leadership, Michealene Cristini Risley, mythology, philanthropy, rescue, sexploitation, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, sexual health, Shaniya Davis, Shero, social-media, Sundance, Tapestries-of-Hope, teens, TOH, Top Ten CNN Heroes 2009, trafficking, very young girls documentary, victim, Vote for Betty Makoni, White House Project, women, Women Leaders for the world, Zimbabwe

Using New Media to Help Kids Revive Their Cultural Heritage

December 18, 2008 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

Feliz Navidad! I know, I keep saying “mañana, mañana, amigos,” now that I'm back in the country. I’ll be writing only sporadically throughout the holiday season as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 7th street jazz, ancient symbols, beading, beads, blues and jazz, celebrity designer jewelry, Centro Cultural Huichol, Cultural Survival and Traditional Arts, environmentally sustainable, extinction, fair trade, Galeria Tanana, healing, Holamun2, holistic health, Huichol, Huichol art, Huichol Center, Huichol shamans, humanity, indigenous culture, Institute for the Future, Jalisco, Latin American studies, media impact, Mexico, native Americans, petroglyphs, peyote, plant knowledge, pre-Columbian, remote villages, Riviera Nayarit, safeguarding indigenous cultures, Sayulita, scenario forecasting, shaman, Sierra Madre, simulations, soy milk, spiritual, Susana Eger Valadez, Susana Valadez, The Huichol Center, Tribes, turtle preservation, Uto-Aztecan language, Wixarica

Girls Gone Global: GWLN Hosts Younger Leaders Worldwide!

November 14, 2008 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

Young leaders are ready to engage around the globe with the most daunting challenges facing our world, as girls ready for change are popping up in the media everywhere leading efforts, organizations, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Addis Ababa, Africa, all things girl week, Amy-Jussel, Carrie Ellett, Daughters, education, Ethiopia, gender equality, girl power, girls, girls empowerment, Girls for a Change, girls mentoring, Global Womens Leadership Network, Global-Good, GWLN, humanity, inquiring minds, inspiring minds, Kasimu Education Fund, leadership, Leavey School of Business, Lending Promise, Linda Alepin, LSB, Pachamama Alliance, Santa Clara University, SCU, TOG, Turkish Cultural Foundation, Women Leaders for the world, youth internships, youth leaders, YWCA

The Power of a Pen, The Story of A Sign

September 4, 2008 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

“Sometimes all it takes is a stroke of a pen. A beautiful film by Alonso Alvarez Barreda.” This was the caption for the amazing video I received via Facebook from my NextNow … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 2008 Cannes Online Competition, Age-of-Conversation, Alonso Alvarez Barreda, Amy-Jussel, arts and sciences, Bill Daul, changebloggers, Historia de un Letrero, humanity, NextNow Collaboratory, one voice matters, Online Film Shorts, positive media influence, Power of a Pen, power of media for positive change, social change, social-media, Story of a Sign, words count