Yet another new site aimed at social networking for kids. Have you tried "What's What"?

Click here for the 3 star (out of 5) review of this new networking site for kids aged 7 - 13.

We can across an excellent social media resource for kids.

Social Media for Kids® is educators, in partnership with social media professionals, helping young people navigate the web in an effective and safe manner while ensuring their future success in a tech-savvy and highly connected world.

Our mission is to create and raise awareness amongst youth and their families about the positive and potential negative impact of internet-based Social Media. We ensure this awareness through a curriculum that focuses on social media and multi-media literacy, while integrating the national education standards.  We work with parents and adults to help them communicate with young people and understand the dynamic new Social Media culture.

Are your kids asking to go onto Facebook - mine are....

Here is an interesting "safe' social networking site called Togetherville a Facebook for Kids ten and under. How will you get your friends to join in?

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Are your kids growing out of Club Penguin? Are they asking to go onto Facebook? There is now a new social networking site for kids - FaceChipz. Think of it as Facebook with “training wheels” – a safer option for younger kids.

FaceChipz are a collectable, connecting device. So how do they get started? Kids buy a package of five Face Chips (sold at ToysRus). They then login to FaceChipz and create a social profile for and then register each of their chips to their profile. Each chip has a serial number on the back - once they register this serial number, they can then hand them out to friends. Each of their friends then logs onto FaceChipz and enters the same serial number to their profile. When the computer sees the same serial number – they connect the two kids.

It creates a closed social network – all created through the exchange of these friendship tokens. Parents can now sleep better at night knowing that their younger children will be protected against "fringe friends".

What a great idea!

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Social media has created a new trend – the power of the collective effort; the ability to co-produce a movement to change the world.

We were inspired by the recent video of Michael Teoh from Malaysia. Michael correctly reminds us all, that social media has provided a new platform to connect; to listen; to learn; and to express ourselves.

Many of us have long recognized that social media is changing our ability to push our causes globally – faster and more effectively. “Social media tools are the “new age activists” handiest tools.”

What are the recent examples?

Twitter and Facebook were leveraged to effectively raise money for Haiti;

Social media tools and their philanthropic impact;

Using the power of Twitter to raise money for the fight against cancer.

Watch Michael Teoh’s video from the One Young World Forum and prepare to be inspired!

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