tween summit

Girl World Tour Meets Tween Town Hall to Speak Up & Share: Mar 13

March 5, 2010 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

March 5, 2010 What's on the minds of tween girls' today? We're about to find out next Saturday at the Tween Girl Town Hall as 150 girls age 8-14 clamor for FREE swag bags and freebie finds from sponsors eager to hear their points of view. Hosted by marketing consultancy and tween social networking site AllyKatzz.com, creator of the inaugural Tween Summit (photo gallery … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Shaping Youth Tagged With: ALLY Awards, AllyKatzz, brandwashing, CertifiKAT, Code Blue, Denise Restauri, Disney Nature, Dove Go Fresh, eco car team, Girl World Tour, green, Hang Proud, Jess Weiner, Kids Are Heroes, Kids Helping Kids, Kids Who Care, marketing research, Mobile Youth, Netsmartz, NSTeens, Pink Locker Society, preteens, Rosalind Wiseman, SciGirls, self-worth, Sexualization & Body Image, She's geeky, Shell Oil eco marathon, ShopGirls, Spare Some Change, STEM, Tea Party Angels, tween summit, Tween Town Hall, tweens, tweenwashing, UCLA, youth homeless, Youth Marketing Mashup, YPulse-National-Mashup

Author Rosalind Wiseman Brings Youth Editors Into YA KidLit Process

February 8, 2010 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Feb. 8, 2010 I bought a copy of the new YA novel by renowned author Rosalind Wiseman of Queen Bees & Wannabes bestseller fame, called “Boys, Girls & Other Hazardous Materials” ...As soon as it hit my home front, my daughter and her ‘BFF’ clamored to snag it from me, lured in by the cover visual alone. Mean Girls writer and co-star Tina Fey had a snarky testimonial on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 2010, Amy-Jussel, April 26, author, BGOHM, books, boys, Boys Girls and Other Hazardous Materials, Creating cultures of dignity, Curse of the Good Girl, Daughters, Dove Go Fresh, drama, Emily Bartek, emotional health, Family Circle, fiction, friendships, girls, GWT, kidlit, Kids, Kids health, literary, literature, mean girls, media influence, Menlo-Atherton High School, mother/daughter, mothers, novels, Peer pressure, Penguin Book Publishing, preteen alliance, preteens, Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads, Queen bees, Queen Bees and Wannabes, Rachel Simmons, readergirlz, reading, relational aggression, relationships, Rosalind Wiseman, SLJ, Tina Fey, tween summit, Twilight, YA lit, young adult, youth

Reporting From the First Ever Tween Summit: Debra Moffitt for S.Y.

October 14, 2009 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Oct. 14, 2009 This past weekend, Denise Restauri and the AllyKatzz team launched the first ever National Tween Summit to see what's on the minds of preteen girls. I haven't figured out how to be two places at once yet, so I tapped KidsHealth.org editor, journalist and author Debra Moffitt who knows a LOT about "tweens" having recently written the book "The Pink Locker … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: AllyKatzz, Debra Moffitt, Denise Restauri, Girl Child, Girl Effect, girls, Girls for a Change, Growing Up Girl, health, Health2.0, Jess Weiner, Kids, KidsHealth.org, leadership, One is Greater Than None, pink, Pink Locker Society, RESPECT, self confidence, self-esteem, self-worth, smart girls, tween summit, tweens, twixt and between, Vital voices, women, Womens-Sports-Foundation, WSF