How to Parent in a Digital World: Resources
Family Minecraft Policy (Google Docs version here)
Family Support Form Responses (copy this to your Google Drive so you can adapt it to your family’s needs. For help, see How to copy a Google Form)
iOS 12: Getting to Know Screen Time & Stronger Parental Controls (for iPhone/iPad)
The Complete Guide to Setting up Parental Controls in Windows
How to use Parental Controls in Windows 8
How to Use Parental Controls in OS X to Protect Your Kids
4 Ways to Set up Parental Controls on Your Home Network
Parental Control Tools That Cover Every Device In Your Home
Online Community session at NetSquared North
Our first session at NetSquared North today covers online community engagement. We've started by sharing stories about online community projects we're working on now, including: Your Kamloops (Arjun Singh) site, blog, and mailing list largely one-way tools: typepad...
Live blogging today from NetSquared North
We’re live blogging today from NetSquared North, a gathering of folks interested in non-profit technology issues who are in town for the Northern Voice blogging conference. Check out the NetSquared North wiki here.
Our opening session decided on four topical discussions for the day:
10:10-11:20: Online community-building: blogging and beyond
1:00-2:05: Top 5 non-profit technology needs and the best practices for addressing them: non-profit capacity-building
How much is that Nazi in the window?
Yesterday we began our "seasonal shopping" -- the process of buying Chanukah gifts for our daughter, and Christmas gifts for her cousins. As we left Vancouver's fabulous Kidsbooks with our two-year-old and her new dreidel book, we wandered to the windows next door....
10 ways to keep online dialogue on topic
I've spent the past two days at a Ohio State for a conference on Building Democracy Through Online Citizen Deliberation, which has been a terrifically productive gathering. One session consisted of an interesting conversation about how to structure online deliberation...
Blogs and Dogs
For those of you who suspect that I'm having too much fun at work these days, let me note my upcoming participation in the Banff Centre's Blogs and Dogs workshop. This is a great chance to learn the basics of blogging, or push your blogging skills in new directions....
Mmm, RSS.
All I want for tagsgiving is a del.icio.us turkey.
Make your nonprofit more effective with RSS aggregation
TechSoup invited me to be part of their online event on Web 2.0 this week. Since I was on call for a discussion about social bookmarking and aggregation, I put together a short overview of how aggregation can help nonprofits, and another on how social bookmarking can...
Hats off to the BCTF
The BC Teachers' strike hit home today, with CUPE picketing in support of the teachers even as some prospect for reconciliation has emerged. Our daughter's daycare was closed so that staff could respect CUPE's picket lines. But I have to admit that despite the...
Everything I needed to know about community engagement I learned from Flying Meat
Flying Meat is the software company behind VooDooPad, my latest favorite application ever. VooDooPad is one of those transformational technologies that do one small but crucial thing so incredibly way that they change the whole way you work. In this case, what...
Wanted: Office & Web Manager for community-minded web company
For more details visit http://www.socialsignal.com/hiring If you're organized, enjoy working with technology, and want your work to have social value, you could be the newest member of Social Signal (http://www.socialsignal.com). We're a Vancouver web company that...