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Ready For Positive Media? Help HopeMob.org Get Kickstarted!

February 16, 2012 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

 Update: Feb 17, 2012 Boom! And that's how it's done. Congrats HopeMob.Congrats world. Feb 16, 2012 Tired of skanky media with lousy messages and negative role models? Prefer to find fabulously positive uses of social media to uplift and inspire humanity? Ready to be part of something worthy, exciting, and impactful? In less than 24 hours Shaun King could be fully funded … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Age-of-Conversation, Believe, Blame Drew's Cancer, change agents, Changemakers, CNN Heroes, crowdsourcing, digital activism, Do Good, GameChangers, Gen Z, Haiti tents, Hope Mob, HopeMob, Humane Education, Inspiring Media, Kickstarter, marketing hope, microfunding, mindfulness, mobile-social, MTV Act, positive media influence, role models, service learning, Shaun King, social change, social-media, socially responsible, Tapestries-of-Hope, when generous strangers unite, wisdom of crowds, youth activism

Is It ONLY ME? Disabling Facebook Places In Pursuit of Privacy

August 19, 2010 by Amy Jussel 14 Comments

August 19, 2010 Today is World Humanitarian Day and I definitely needed this inspiring humanitarian video to gain some perspective on humanity. (fab 4 mins after the jump, and a how-to disable vid on Facebook Places too!) I don't know why anyone would give a flying fig about my whereabouts, but I DO know I've had my own personal safety blogger moments and am frankly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: A Thin Line, Bullyproof, CoParenting, Cruel's Not Cool, Cyberbullying, cyberstalking, Diaspora, Digital, digital abuse, Facebook Places, facebook places lets your friends broadcast where you are, Facebook privacy settings, Facebook-Beacon, Frontline SMS, geolocation, go outdoors and out of reach, how to disable Facebook Places, LBS, Lifehacker, location based services, Media Unplugged, mobile mapping, mobile-social, Parenting-Teens, personal safety, Places, play outdoors, privacy breach, privacy warning, privacy-data-youth, World Humanitarian Day, Youth-Media

BlameAThon: Tweet Your Troubles to Fight Cancer Today!

September 9, 2009 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

Sept. 9, 2009 School class schedule not what you’d hoped? Coach call you out in front of your teammates? BF ran off with your BFF? Or just need a dose of perspective? Whatcha waitin’ for? “Blame Drew’s Cancer!” Right now! Today’s the big Blame-A-Thon 9-09-09, where Drew Olanoff and his pals are livestreaming in a social media blitz with raffle prizes, rock and roll, blipTV … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: #BlameDrewsCancer, 23andme, ACS, AllRise, American Cancer Society, attitude of gratitude, Blame Drew's Cancer, Blame-a-thon, BlameAThon, Cancer, cancer crusaders, cause marketing, charity, chemo, chemotherapy, citizen-journalism, Derren Brown, disease management, DNA, Drew Olanoff, genetics, health, Kids, Lance Armstrong, livestream, LiveStrong, Media, mobile-social, philanthropy, positive impact, radiation, social-media, survivors, Teen Twitter, trending topics, Twitter, twitter journalism, TwitTip

Teens and Technology: Countdown to YPulse National Mashup ’08!

July 3, 2008 by Amy Jussel 8 Comments

“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
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