Category: social media

  • Everything You Post Online is Ultimately Public

    Everything You Post Online is Ultimately Public

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  • Cyberbully Action Plan

    Cyberbully Action Plan

    Last week, a fellow volunteer in our high school ministry asked me for some advice about a student in her small group who is being bullied online. Specifically, the attacks are coming from anonymous accounts on Instagram, Facebook, and Ask.fm.  My friend told me that the student had already talked to the school counselor about it, but the attacks hadn’t stopped and were now affecting her school work, sleep, etc.

    I wanted to share the advice I gave as a starting point for other youth workers, educators, parents, and individuals faced with the same issue. (Obviously, I’ve edited this a little bit to make it general.)

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  • Blogging 201 is today at 11 AM PST

    Blogging 201 is today at 11 AM PST

    Reminder: Today at 11:00 AM Pacific time I’m hosting a free webinar entitled: Blogging 201:  Generating Content They’ll Love.

    Here’s the description.

    In this 45 minute webinar we’ll cover the following topics:
    + Topic generation
    + Establishing a writing routine
    + Writing for impact and engagement
    + Identifying your voice
    + Copyright and excerpting etiquette
    + Blog Post Titles, Featured Images, and Social Sharing
    + Basic search engines happy

    This webinar is free open to anyone, so make sure to invite your friends.

    RSVP here

  • Adam’s Guide to Trolls

    Adam’s Guide to Trolls

    The other day I heard future Hall of Fame basketball coach Tom Izzo talk about the impact of internet trolls on his players while doing an interview with ESPN Radio.

    Yeah, trolls are such a big deal that he has to teach 18 year old basketball players how to deal with foul mouthed fans.

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  • Does Technology Diminish Social Skills?

    Does Technology Diminish Social Skills?

    “The problem with all of this technology is that kids today can’t survive in the real world. They don’t have the social skills they need.”

    I hear this a lot from parents at my social media workshops.

    And I am empathetic to the logic.

    Yet I disagree with the sentiment.

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  • Blogging 201: Generating Content They’ll Love

    Blogging 201: Generating Content They’ll Love

    March 6th at 11:00 AM Pacific

    Building off of the success of Blogging 101, I’ve scheduled the next logical step… Blogging 201!

    Blogging 101 was all about getting started, having an initial plan to make blogging a habit, getting your blog set-up, and stuff like that.

    Blogging 201 is about writing, editing, and publishing the content that’ll actually go on your blog. (aka The hard part.)

    What Blogging 201 Will Cover

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  • 5 Ways to Help Your Favorite Blogger

    5 Ways to Help Your Favorite Blogger

    Did you know that there are things you, a blog reader, can do that can dramatically help or hurt an authors content?

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  • What are teenagers sharing on social media?

    So what are teenagers doing online, anyway?

    It’s a fair question. For generations parents of teenagers have wanted to know about “the secret lives of teenagers” and teenagers have done whatever they could to keep their private lives, private.

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  • Reaction Porn

    Reaction Porn

    There’s a trend out there. And it’s getting worse. And you might be addicted to it without even knowing.

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  • Your Smartphone, Your Kids, and Their Safety

    Dear Universe,

    We’re out on a date for the night and our kids are home alone. Here’s our address and a map to our house.

    Sincerely,

    Mom and Dad

    That’s ridiculous. No parent would ever say that.

    I would never say that.

    Except we do it all the time. Sure, we don’t do it intentionally, but the fingerprints we leave on social media do indeed tell the world where we are, what we are doing, how long we’ll be doing it, and how to find the people we care about.

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