This weekend, I attended Type-A Parent Bootcamp sponsored by Disney Parks at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Type A is a blogging-for-business conference that teaches bloggers how to work with brands, how to find new avenues of monetization, how to brand themselves, and more. My KidzVuz Continue Reading
OK, Maybe not a movie. But at least a cute little montage! It really shows what a fun, crazy time we had with our fantastic guests and sponsors. (And putting it together brought me back to my TV producer days!) Check it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeswrCsA1fk Thanks again to sponsors Continue Reading
So last week was our totally insane, incredibly fabulous (if I do say so myself) KidzVuz Holiday House Party. What's that? It's 150 kids, 100 top mom bloggers together with some majorly fun brands together for an afternoon of playing, testing, trying, learning..even tasting! This year, KidzVuz Continue Reading
In the better late than never category comes this post, about what I learned at BSM Media's She Streams conference in NYC. The conference, now in it's fourth (I'm pretty sure) year, is all about getting beyond the written word in the social media space, and about empowering women bloggers to take Continue Reading
So KidzVuz.com is videos by kids for kids. It's a place where we tell kids: Have Your Say! But sometimes, we grownups get a chance to say something ,too. And last week, I got to put my TV producer hat back on for the first time in several years and write and produce a video about KidzVuz. Of Continue Reading
This year, BlogHer, the largest women's blogging conference in the world, fell on my kids' camp visiting day. It is the one day in seven weeks I get to see my kids. And, since my kids are teenagers, it's also one of the only days my kids are totally, completely happy to spend an entire day with Continue Reading
I know. Weirdest title of a post ever. But today's the day the new FTC COPPA regulations go into effect. COPPA is Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. It's the law that governs how sites and apps collect information from kids. And that means that suddenly, a lot of the sites your kids visit Continue Reading
As of July 1st, the Children's Online Privacy and Protection Act is going to change. Chances are, you didn't know that, don't know what COPPA is, and don't care. And that's a shame. Because you should. Because it's all about what your kids can and cannot do on the internet. What is COPPA Continue Reading
In the real world, there's a common understand that within communities, we look after eachother's kids. We help them if we see them in a jam. We tattle when we see them doing something really dangerous -- or just plain intervene. But in the digital world...it's a little less -. Or is it? Check Continue Reading
That social media and sex are intertwined is no surprise. What is surprising is how social media has become a weapon in sexual assaults of kids, tweens, and teens. In Steubenville, Ohio, and in Torrington CT, and who knows how many other unreported places, social media is being used both during and Continue Reading