Sept. 28, 2009 This past weekend I hosted “team bonding” for the JV girls’ volleyball crew coming together from a wide array of schools, cultures, and socioeconomics to learn to trust, play and unite as one cohesive unit. At first my ears were sounding alarms as if I had a living lab of Rachel Simmons' 'girl talk' research in my house, so I tossed those ‘Table Topics’ handy … [Read more...]
Bridging Generational Divides Through Music & Media
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: art and music, bands, Bruce Sallan, concerts, CoParenting, festivals, global music, Kids, Live Nation, Music, musicians, Outside Lands, parenting, Peace Through Music, Rachel Simmons, road trips, rock and roll, rock concerts, single dads, songs, T-Mobile, Table Topics, team bonding, teens, Woodstock
Will 2009 Uncover Price Fixing On the Backs of Texting Teens?
I don’t know about you, but this week's NYTimes article "What Carriers Aren't Eager to Tell You About Texting" written by local SJSU professor Randall Stross has me wanting to text him an emoticon smooch for his ‘lift and reveal’ article peeling back the Wizard of Oz curtain on mobile carrier costs, profit margins and taking advantage of youth habits to … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: anti-trust, AT&T, bundled package, carrier costs, cellphone bills, cellphones, congress, CTIA, Digital Domain, Gartner Group, Herb Kohl, increase, lawsuits, low bandwidth, mobile devices, Mobile Youth, Mr. Kohl, New-York-Times-, operating costs, price-fixing, pricing, Professor Randy Stross, Randall Stross, Senator Herb Kohl, short message service, SJSU, SMS, Sprint, Srinivasan Keshav, T-Mobile, Teen-texting, Text Messaging, texting, texting costs, the Wireless Association, unfair and deceptive practices, unfair pricing, Verizon, what carriers aren't eager to tell you about texting, Wireless