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Sticks & Stones & Words can break you
I live at a crossroads. On one side, there is the life I have built for myself. I fought to be educated, even though I came from little means and was told people like me (poor, woman, etc) don’t go...
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I won’t quit you, Social Media
I challenge those of you getting frustrated with Facebook and other social media political discussions to think of these conversations differently. Politics are important, even if you don’t care for...
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My Interview on the Community Signal Podcast
This past month, I had the honor of being interviewed by Patrick O’Keefe, for his community management focused podcast, Community Matters. You can download it on iTunes or your favorite podcasting...
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Facebook and livestreaming tragedies
Great NPR Marketplace story on the conundrum of “free speech” and expression on social media during these tense times and how to moderate content for brands and different audience consumption....
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Social Good FTW
Lately, in an effort to engage with my new home in Salt Lake City, I have been volunteering on local projects that take those international and large-scale skill sets I have developed and try to apply...
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Top 3 online safety tips for parents
A dear friend of mine asked me on Facebook if I could share with her my “top 3 safety tips” she needed to know, now that her oldest was 7 and her youngest was fast approaching internet age. While I...
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GeekDad interview
My colleague, Bill Shribman over at WGBH, interviewed me for GeekDad.com recently. Here’s a snippet: You threw my daughter out of Animal Jam when she was making plans to meet a friend for lunch, which...
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Safer Internet day 2014
My dear friend and awe-inspiring colleague, Anne Collier from ConnectSafely.org, recently spearheaded the US Safer Internet Day event. Along with a fun campaign called One Good Thing, where people...
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COPPA/FTC- you make it so difficult to help you out
So I have a reputation as somewhat of a COPPA compliance warrior – so much so that my co-workers have been known to groan when I mention registration or database needs. It’s an odd thing to have...
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Safer Internet Day!
Yeah, I know. First, Community Manager Appreciation Day (#CMAD) and now Safer Internet Day? How many trumped up days do my peers need to feel good and noticed? (The answer is infinite – we are...
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Digital Kids and 2013 Predictions
I am excited to be involved in this years Digital Kids Conference as an emcee for the first day’s talks. It’s collocated with Toy Fair again in NYC, so we should have a nice crowd. Tonda, Chris and...
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Network makers responsibility
I think a great deal about my responsibility as a kids community producer in establishing and maintaining a healthy and safe culture in the communities I manage. This has been the case since I began...
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COPPA musings
The annual FOSI conference held in DC last week really helped to articulate for me some of the current ambiguity in the COPPA legislation, specifically with it’s intention and it’s enforcement....
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Virtual Worlds Mgmt 101
Izzy Neis and I worked on a primer of kids virtual worlds that we could share with people. Kind of a what’s good about them, what difficult about them, what they are and are not. Enjoy. Virtual Worlds...
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The Social Network… meh
Just a short post to point out a conversation I have had with a bunch of friends about the movie, The Social Network. After I watched it, I didn’t feel like I had watched a cinematic masterpiece. I...
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My talk at Pratt
Hi All, I was asked to do a short talk at Pratt Institute, so I decided to share my slides. Basically I wanted to have a short visual aid to a myriad of mainstream, large and successful properties and...
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Oldy but goody links
So I was clearing out my favorites on Twitter and thought I would aggregate some of the random old articles I had saved to look at later….. way later. Why not put them here, right? Learning Big...
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National Geographic Animal Jam – Open Beta!
Hey everyone! The reason I haven’t posted in forever is because I am hard at work on our newly launched project (albeit in open beta) National Geographic Animal Jam! The day is finally here to live...
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Managing your Non-Professional Community
A small hunchbacked woman is climbing the stairs of a subway with a huge roller cart full to the brim. She is taking one step at a time, laboring to pull the cart up, then herself. It looks as if...
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LITTLE HANDS, FOUL MOODS, RUNNY NOSES 3: RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPING KID-FRIENDLY...
SPEAKER/S: Carla Engelbrecht Fisher (Teachers College, Columbia University) SLIDES from her blog 5-6 is when kids have more motor skills and can start to understand dispersion Displacement effect – if...
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