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Guest Blogger: Cait Hurley "Twitter safety advice for kids and parents"

Cait Hurley, online professional and blogger at http://moolies.typepad.com, has agreed to reprint her blog about the subject on everybody's mind....... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Preamble - why I'm writing about this Here she goes, writing about Twitter again. Sigh. But this time, it's important! There seems to be a state of denial on the internet that Twitter has any safety implications for kids, which I… Continue

Added by Amy Pritchard on May 27, 2009 at 11:45pm — 1 Comment

AoC Gold

Well if you say so, but I am not sure most people would agree...I mean if you really think about it. ----------------------------------------------------- Jessica warner Aoc Gold Continue

Added by jessica warner on April 6, 2009 at 2:04am — 3 Comments

How To Write A Good Masters Dissertation?

Writing a good dissertation requires certain dissertation writing help solutions which should always be used in order to write dissertations comprehensively. It is a critical requirement for every academic dissertation that the student should prove his research question in relation to the dissertation topic in the simplest manner. This can be done through the presentation of original thoughts or ideas or by analyzing what others have researched on the topic that the dissertation is about. If th… Continue

Added by suzzane donald on March 11, 2009 at 6:29am — 2 Comments

Welcome Back to me & The WB

Welcome back! I am finally able to take a few moments and catch up on all the new happenings here on the AOCM! So the first part of this is to welcome me back and boy am I happy things are finally settling down in my little World. I spent nearly a Month over Christmas with my family i… Continue

Added by Maxxwell Tomorrow on February 8, 2009 at 3:29am — No Comments

News in the Stargate Fan Universe!

Just an update here about the Stargate Metaverse Track @ Dragon*Con! It's been an interesting week. Due to some staffing changes, I am now the Programming Team Supervisor for the Stargate Metaverse Track (we had a name change, too). That means that I have an official staff position now, and my main charge is managing the evolving content/team projects that make our track so great! I'm still the project leader for Stargate: Interactive. For any fans out there, SGI this year is featuring the fan… Continue

Added by Jamie Poff on January 11, 2009 at 3:21am — 3 Comments

Fun With Jesse Jackson

After hitting a wall of “blank” here, unable to think of a single topic, it was suggested to me that maybe I should just tell some stories drawn from my experiences online. I guess I’ll do that…. Anyone who knows me knows that I can weave a story from just about anything. :-) So, here’s a story. It was 1999. You may remember the story in the news about a fight i… Continue

Added by Susie on December 29, 2008 at 2:00pm — 3 Comments

Guest Blogger - Rebecca Newton

Hi all. Rebecca Newton is a member of the Metaverse Mod Squad Advisory Board and has agreed to guest blog today on the issue of the recent FTC fining of Sony. Here ya go!

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/12/s… Continue

Added by Amy Pritchard on December 12, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

The Computer's View

Our friend Izzy Neis, posted this awesome video on her blog. It is a film of children's faces as they play computer games. What a range of emotions. About half way through, one girl has a single tear come down her face. Heartbreaking. But what you mostly see is joy, fun and… Continue

Added by Amy Pritchard on November 26, 2008 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Google Scorches Field of Dreams

Google's grand experiment in virtual worlds, Lively, is shutting down at the end of the year after less than six months. No specific reasons were given, but conventional thinking is that the decision was driven by Lively's lameness. Joking aside,… Continue

Added by Michael Pinkerton on November 20, 2008 at 1:50pm — 1 Comment

Cockroaches of the New Economy

According to popular belief, cockroaches are so hardy and adaptable they can survive even a nuclear holocaust. Similarly, there are some critters that even in this economic crisis have continued to swarm. In addition to thriving bankruptcy lawyers and soup manufacturers, virtual worlds offer what Forbes calls a “glimmer of hope” amidst the doom and… Continue

Added by Michael Pinkerton on November 18, 2008 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

Stick Inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame

I love this. I am going to the Kids Online (un)Conference next week and my new theme is going to be the simplicity of found objects as the ultimate in entertainment. I guess we adults over think things. We certainly never did as children. "And last but not least, one very unconventio… Continue

Added by Amy Pritchard on November 7, 2008 at 6:33am — 1 Comment

Woman Jailed for Virtual Murder

So just arrived back yesterday from the Virtual World Conference in London and I am catching up on email and blog posts (translation: surfing Facebook and TMZ.com). I tried to update via Twitter mostly, but unfortunately we were stuck manning the booth and in meetings, so I was able to attend only one session in its entirety. The session was the keynote by Linden Lab’s new CEO Mark Kingdon. I had actually been looking forward to that, as my husband works for LL and constantly gets an earful fro… Continue

Added by Amy Pritchard on October 23, 2008 at 12:39pm — No Comments

Mathematics in Real Life: Teaching the Elements of Proof

For the past week or so at my normal job (teaching high school geometry), I've been trying to get students to recognize the real-world value of one of the most "dreaded" skills in the class: writing proofs about the congruence of triangles. The problem with this subject is that very few people have a need to show that two triangles are congruent...ever. Honestly, it's not all that important for day-to-day living. However, a little creativity seems to make some difference. Why learn proofs? Wel… Continue

Added by Jamie Poff on October 8, 2008 at 4:10pm — 5 Comments

About SG Interactive @ Dragon*Con

SG Interactive is basically a Stargate: Offworld original idea as a fandom track event. Basically, as a volunteer fan panelist, I was asked in Spring 2008 to host a screening of an episode of Stargate: SG-1 and come up with funny ways for the audience to be involved. From that point, SGI became the brainchild of three main creators: Cali Boyd, a gal who goes by the moniker Wiccy (I know her name, but only use it on official documents), and myself. We worked for about four months on the project,… Continue

Added by Jamie Poff on October 3, 2008 at 3:09pm — 4 Comments

CBS' New Social Viewing Room

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington published a post today on CBS' new Social Viewing Room. You can now go to the CBS website and watch a show concurrent… Continue

Added by Amy Pritchard on October 2, 2008 at 12:36pm — No Comments

Halloween in MinyanLand

Metaverse Mod Squad is proud to team up with MinyanLand to host a month-long Halloween social in October. It's a terrific virtual world that teaches kids and their families the basics of money and finance. Pretty topical these days, don't… Continue

Added by Michael Pinkerton on September 23, 2008 at 12:16pm — 1 Comment

Raven Island - Compelling Technologies

While in Los Angeles at the Virtual Worlds Conference I had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with Nancy Lanning from Compelling Technologies. Compelling Technologies just launched Raven I… Continue

Added by Maxxwell Tomorrow on September 22, 2008 at 5:00pm — 2 Comments

Community Management and Customer Service

Today, Metaverse Mod Squad announced a strategic partnership with Parature, the global leader in on-demand customer service software. I think this partnership furthers discussions/debates within the online community profession about what role customer service plays in community management and vice versa. Our job as community managers and moderators is to make the experiences in online communities safe, exciting, and fun. As brands continue to make these online communities the focal point of the… Continue

Added by Amy Pritchard on September 18, 2008 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

Kids Online (un)Conference - Balancing Safety and Fun

Issues and Best Practices. From the AOCM's own Joi Podgorny: Spread the word! Really affordable conference for practical info and discourse on kids online. If you have never been to an un-conference, you really are missing out. Everyone participates - SO community-focused! Hope to see everyone! - Joi November 13, 2008 in Mountain View, California. http://kidsonline.eventbrite.com/ I'll certainly be attending and I hope to see other AOCM members as well! Continue

Added by Amy Pritchard on September 16, 2008 at 2:37pm — No Comments

Virtual World Solutions

About 9 months ago, as a new company, we struggled to explain exactly what we do, how it makes sense, and the biggest problem of all - communicating that to a variety of audiences. *** I was working on our “deck” and my husband started brainstorming on a whiteboard in our home office. He wrote “Virtual World Problems = Real World Problems”. Which of course seems simple, but for countless executives that have just acclimated themselves to navigating websites, it is a steep lesson. A mistake tha… Continue

Added by Amy Pritchard on September 14, 2008 at 5:44pm — No Comments