Cait Hurley, online professional and blogger at http://moolies.typepad.com, has agreed to reprint her blog about the subject on everybody's mind.......
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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…
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Added by Amy Pritchard on May 27, 2009 at 11:45pm —
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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…
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Added by Amy Pritchard on December 12, 2008 at 11:30am —
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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…
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Added by Amy Pritchard on November 26, 2008 at 6:30pm —
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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…
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Added by Amy Pritchard on November 7, 2008 at 6:33am —
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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…
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Added by Amy Pritchard on October 23, 2008 at 12:39pm —
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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…
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Added by Amy Pritchard on October 2, 2008 at 12:36pm —
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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…
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Added by Amy Pritchard on September 18, 2008 at 3:30pm —
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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!
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Added by Amy Pritchard on September 16, 2008 at 2:37pm —
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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.
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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…
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Added by Amy Pritchard on September 14, 2008 at 5:44pm —
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Hi all. During a discussion about the NYT article on trolling ( http://tinyurl.com/6ooqph ), Emma Monks, who runs moderation policies and processes for Habbo globally, posted this interesting take and has agreed to let us use it as a guest blog! Enjoy......
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Added by Amy Pritchard on August 4, 2008 at 10:00am —
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Continuing on with my reports from the Children in Virtual Worlds conference held May 22 in London.
The researchers from the University of Westminster identified 13 principles that they believe spells success for a virtual world for children (it actually translates pretty well for an…
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Added by Amy Pritchard on June 3, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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A couple of days ago, I posted some highlights from the Children in Virtual Worlds Conference held last week in London. Since then, I have been interested to see that all subsequent conference press has been focused almost entirely on an exciting little tidbit that was revealed…
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Added by Amy Pritchard on May 29, 2008 at 3:29pm —
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Hi all. Back from the Children in Virtual Worlds Conference held last week in London and sponsored by BBC and the University of Westminister. I came away with quite a bit of information from what my now good friend Joi Podgorny called an "academic" conference. I can tell you, it…
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Added by Amy Pritchard on May 27, 2008 at 3:30pm —
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