April 2012
Profile: Tori Molnar, MyUtoria & She Can Make Change
Posted on April 27, 2012 by Melissa · Leave a Comment
In 2010, Tori Molnar decided she needed to figure out a way to make her own money and help some of her friends do the same. So she did what many of us have always wanted to do but never could figure out how…she started her own company called Utoria http://www.myutoria.com. It’s sort of an [...]
SURVEY: AVG Digital Diaries: Digital Coming of Age
Posted on April 26, 2012 by adam · Leave a Comment
Since 2010 AVG Technologies has been sponsoring research into how the Internet is impacting children as they play, learn, and grow up in today’s digital world. Over the last three years, they have been publishing studies of different age ranges and how the internet is affecting them. The latest study, titled Digital Coming of Age, surveyed [...]
INTERNET SAFETY: When Good Trades Go Bad
Posted on April 25, 2012 by Melissa · Leave a Comment
This story, by Digifam blog contributor Melissa Brodsky, tells a great and cautionary tale about both the amazing power of the internet and the dangers. The people on the other end of an exchange like the one described may not be your friend, or even who you thought they were. Don’t be paranoid, but it [...]
ORGANIZATION: GlobalGirl Media
Posted on April 24, 2012 by adam · Leave a Comment
GlobalGirl Media is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that is dedicated to empowering high school age girls from under-served communities around the world through media, leadership and journalistic training to have a voice in the global media universe and their own futures. GlobalGirl Media grew out of a coalition of women broadcasters and journalists [...]
PROFILE: Taylor Wilson, teen physicist
Posted on April 18, 2012 by adam · Leave a Comment
Taylor Wilson is a 17 year old student who is obsessed with radioactivity. He’s been chasing radioactive elements and the dream of being a physicist since he was in the fifth grade. He is now one of the most prominent teen physicists in the world. Taylor is the youngest person in the world to create [...]
ADVICE: Straight Talk TNT- Teen Advice column by teens for teens
Posted on April 16, 2012 by adam · Leave a Comment
Straight Talk TNT is a syndicated teen advice column which has been appearing in smaller newspapers around the country since 2004. Currently syndicated in 10 California newspapers and the Toledo Blade of Ohio, each week they estimate their column is read by over 100,000 youth, parents, grandparents, business leaders and others who care about youth. [...]
PROJECT: It Gets Better: Anti-bullying, Broadway-style.
Posted on April 13, 2012 by adam · Leave a Comment
“It Gets Better” is the anti-bullying internet movement that got its start in September 2010 when syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage and his partner made a Youtube video to give hope to LGBT youth, in response to media reports of a number of LGBT teen suicides. The movement has since spawned over 40,000 user created [...]
PASSION: When You Give A Kid A Cardboard Box…Caine Monroy
Posted on April 12, 2012 by Melissa · Leave a Comment
Please welcome new blogger for Digital Family Summit Melissa Brodsky. Melissa has been blogging since 2006, is a social media consultant and freelance writer, and is the mother of 5 aspiring bloggers/digital content creators. See below for more information about Melissa. You never know who it is you’re going to meet or how they are [...]
PROFILE: Curt Hogg, Teen sports journalist
Posted on April 10, 2012 by adam · Leave a Comment
Curt Hogg is a 16 year old junior in high school that has a passion for sports writing. Curt is a Milwaukee Brewers fan, and has his own blog (Plushdamentals) on their network . His blog is rated as one of the Top 100 blogs on MLB.com Curt started writing for Bleacher Report in the [...]
ORGANIZATION: VolunTEENnation: Teen Volunteer Opportunities
Posted on April 9, 2012 by adam · Leave a Comment
In 2009, then 17 year old Simone Bernstein and her brother Jake started a St. Louis organization called Volunteen, which allowed youth (from ages ten to seventeen) to find volunteering opportunities that cater to their interests. All the user had to do is type in their age, zip code, and category of volunteering, and they’d [...]
