April 13, 2009 Awhile back I wrote about mobilizing youth via mobile, and this past weekend’s Global Engagement Summit seems to have brought out all kinds of positive media uses and leadership teams eager to make a difference on the ol’ blue marble. (Here's a glimpse into the GES world via 10:00 Northwestern Univ. video) Thanks to NetSquared passionista Britt Bravo, I’ve … [Read more...]
Mobile for Good: N2Y4 Top Tier Contenders Announced
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, Andre Blackman, Britt-Bravo, cellphones, cells, change agents, Change Bloggers, Change the Web, Dean Eckles, Deb-Levine, Distributive Networks, Fast Forward Fund, GES, Global engagement, Graham Brown, Horsepower Challenge, Humana Games, IDEA Team, Isis, Josh Dhaliwal, Kevin Bertram, Kids, Mobile Youth, N2Y4, Net2, NetSquared, Nokia, Northwestern University, social good, teens, tweens, Ushahidi, youth culture
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
Using Mobile to Mobilize: Tapping Into Youth Info Needs
Aug. 7 update: New podcasts for ISIS and MobileVoter links at the end. If you still think Cha-cha is a dance step and Isis is a bird, it’s time to mobilize your mindset and get a glimpse of mobile youth trends and teen texting so you're fully abreast of The Next Great Thing. Kids literally have helpful information at their fingertips just a keycode away, whether … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 100-Young-Americans, Advocates-for-youth, American-Teen, Amy-Jussel-Founder-Shaping-Youth, Ben-Rigby, Britt-Bravo, ChaCha, Deb-Levine, Do-GooderTV, DoSomething.org, Fresh-Focus, Google-Earth, HIV-teen-prevention, HPV-vaccine, I-Love-Mountaintops, Isis, Media-as-super-peer, mobile-voter, MobileActive.org, Mobilizing-Generation-2.0, MyBestShot, NetSquared, preteens, Prevent-STDS, ProjectVote, sex-education-teens, Sex-Tech, sex-texting, SexInfoSF, SexTech, sexual-health-teens, SMS-Codes, social-media, STD-prevention, STDS/HIV-exposure, Sweet-Relief.org, teen-suicide-prevention, Teen-texting, Youth-advocacy, youth-voters, YPulse-National-Mashup