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myYearbook

How the Net industry can help get us all to Online Safety 3.0

December 21, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

This is great, an early sign of the Internet industry's piece of OS 3.0: what the popular teen social site MyYearbook.com is doing for Reachout.com, a nonprofit support and suicide-prevention site for teens on the social Web (it now has a US base too, but since its start in Australia, that country "has seen a 56% reduction in youth suicide rates," the site says). Here's how Reach Out describes … [Read more...] about How the Net industry can help get us all to Online Safety 3.0

Filed Under: Social Media, social networking Tagged With: ConnectSafely, helpline, moderators, multiplayer online games, myYearbook, Online Safety 3.0, reachout.com, social networking, suicide prevention, virtual worlds

Parents, you’re not just focusing on FB, right?

October 13, 2010 By Anne 4 Comments

It's great that parents are getting the message that they can monitor their kids on Facebook by joining it, but they also need to remember that Facebook isn't the all of teen online socializing (even though it's in the news a lot!). It's just the big social utility that aggregates basically "everybody" in teens' real-world school and social lives. But there's plenty more social activity happening … [Read more...] about Parents, you’re not just focusing on FB, right?

Filed Under: Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: Facebook, FarmVille, IMVU, meez, monitoring, myYearbook, Parenting, Piggyback, PlanetCazmo, Social Media, TrendMicro, Whyville.net, Woozworld

MyYearbook helps teens give to ‘Causes’

October 21, 2008 By Anne Leave a Comment

The US's No. 3 social-network site, MyYearbook.com (see this), just launched a new feature called "Causes," YPulse.com reports. "MyYearbook users can choose from a number of causes like ending world hunger, fighting climate change, saving the rainforests or curing cancer. They donate with virtual money, i.e. $40 buys one grain of rice (expensive grain!), and then get a badge on their profile … [Read more...] about MyYearbook helps teens give to ‘Causes’

Filed Under: Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: cause marketing, college social networking, myYearbook, YPulse

Social sites: Teen ‘confessionals’?

August 5, 2008 By Anne Leave a Comment

The focus of Forbes's profile of MyYearbook.com is how it can monetize this "freewheeling chatfest," I guess after it burns through the $13 million round of venture capital it recently received. But it's the lead of the article that I found arresting: Forbes writer Emily Schmall tells of a 14-year-old MyYearbook user's story of self-mutilation in the site: "Her 1,240-word piece is illustrated by a … [Read more...] about Social sites: Teen ‘confessionals’?

Filed Under: self-harm, social networking Tagged With: myYearbook

US’s top 5 social network sites

June 11, 2008 By Anne Leave a Comment

The US's top 5 social network sites in terms of visitors in April (the latest figures available) are MySpace, Facebook, myYearbook, Bebo, and BlackPlanet, in that order, according to Web traffic research firm Hitwise. Interestingly, this was also the ranking order for the sites in terms of returning visitors and time spent on the sites. MySpace's April market share was 73.82%, Hitwise said, … [Read more...] about US’s top 5 social network sites

Filed Under: Research, social networking Tagged With: Bebo, BlackPlanet, Facebook, HitWise, MySpace, myYearbook

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CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
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Childnet International
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The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
Prof. Henry Jenkins's blog
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Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
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Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
TheseLittleWaves.net, site of Galit Breen, author of Kindness Wins
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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