I am thrilled to see organizations like Common Sense Media and Dr BJ Fogg of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab provide valuable information on safe social networking for teens including IMPORTANT information on privacy controls. So here are the links, parents take a look and learn: Dr. BJ Fogg - Facebook For Parents website and class for parents Common Sense on … [Read more...]
ReadWriteWeb: How to Use Social Media for Social Change
I found this post from ReadWriteWeb that discusses how social media can be used for social change, including Jeremiah Owyang's post about how to support the China Earthquate relief organizations and Facebook Causes (among others). That post highlights some great examples of how the forces of social media can be used for charity as well as networking with friends. UPDATE: Here … [Read more...]
Facebook In Reality: The Video – With Added Mom Thoughts
My friends all know that I am a Facebook evangelist, but some of my tech savviest friends still don't get why. I tell them that I can keep track of what my personal and business friends are doing, get invited to events and keep my network up to date on my blog posts and favorite links.... How joining Facebook groups has helped me do some amazing business networking at night … [Read more...]
Controlling Social Media Noise Levels
One of the biggest complaints I hear from parents using social media (for themselves) is the "noise". Noise comes from some social media applications not interacting with each other or getting more functionality then you need. I just posted about Facebook Connect and Yahoo Open to connect between social media sites, which is a step in the right direction. I … [Read more...]
Facebook Connect and Yahoo! Open
For those, like me, that are pondering where their social graph should live should look into Facebook Connect and Yahoo Open. This post at the Groundswell blog says it all..... … [Read more...]
