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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 [...]

You Can’t Automate Cyber Safety

You Can't Automate Cyber Safety

Filth & Magic Apps In the war against Cyber Bullying and Online FILTH! I’m constantly hearing parents asking for suggestions for computer timers and programs for blocking certain sites from young eyes. Most program developers would love to invent a fail safe app for parents to use to keep their kids totally safe online, (they’d [...]

R18+ Games For Australia After 10 Years! Podcast with iGEA’s Ron Curry

R18+ Classification for Games in Australia

Digital Breezes Podcast Episode 2. 29th July 2011 This weeks podcast is about the latest Standing Committee of Attorneys-General discussions that took place last Friday 22nd July in Adelaide, where they discussed the proposition that Australia finally have an R18+ classification for interactive games, or video games as they were previously known. What does this [...]

South Australia’s Rather Odd Gaming Classification Proposal

South Australia R18+ Gaming Proposal SCAG

South Australia to introduce R18+ for games “South Australian Attorney-General John Rau has taken the R18+ for games issue into his own hands today, declaring that his state will introduce the adult rating regardless of the decision made by other states and territories at the upcoming Standing Committee of Attorneys-General (SCAG) meeting in July.” “This [...]

Are Your Kids Addicted The Internet Or Just Unruly!

Disapline Problems

One of the recurring complaints I have heard from parents as part of my cyber safety courses and business, is reflective of many parents absolute frustration with their kids spending all their time on Facebook or gaming “It never stops!” cried one mother at a luncheon at my local school. As parents we all dream [...]

How To Use The Parental Controls On XBox

How To Use The Parental Controls On XBox 360

Whilst I believe strongly that you need to empower your children to take charge of their own gaming time limits and safe viewing. There might be times where you do need to set up some electronic restrictions on a computer or gaming console as the result of a child not sticking to the agreed rules. [...]

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, [...]