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Gaming Twitter

Gaming Twitter

It’s interesting how social media changes. What worked a year ago on social media doesn’t work today. Being a consultant on social media means keeping fluid and up to date with how each platform changes. People with over 20 thousand followers are increasing on Twitter but are they any good at Social Media? I joined [...]

Should You Use Your Real Name On The Internet?

Paisley Beebe TV Show Host in Second Life

Fake names…. There’s a lot of discussion going on at the moment around the issue of using what some people call “Fake” names on the Internet, particularly around Google+ which has outlawed them, as has Facebook, although on Facebook you can set up a Fan Page under your “Fake” Name. On Twitter you can call [...]

Where Are Kids Going Online?

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There were one or two comments made to me via twitter, about the stats I provided, on my last post on online safety and kids, particularly the one about “64 percent of all teens say they do things online they don’t want their parents to know about”. I’d like to talk about the concern I [...]

Should Kids Play Minecraft?

Minecraft 2012

Yes! But with supervision and with some caveats. Firstly I have to say I’m NOT a Minecraft player, however I’ve just had a play on it with my own kids on their own server… (so I’m really only saying this as a mum looking over my teens shoulders)…My two boys and their freinds are players, [...]