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Utilizing Technology to Spread Awareness – MS Awareness Week 2010

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

How would you use technology to promote awareness?  This week (March 8-14, 2010) is MS Awareness week!  Over the remaining six days of this event, the MS Society hopes to spread information about multiple sclerosis to the general public.  Educating the public about this chronic, often disabling disease will help bring in new volunteers, donations and eventually a cure for MS.  Through this article, I hope to explore the ways I am using technology to send a message and I ask that you provide me with any feedback and/or ideas you have.

I was lucky enough to be part of a volunteer task force, created to implement a viral campaign for MS Awareness Week, and I found it both interesting and enlightening that the focus was on using social media to spread the word.  Our discussions and meetings were filled with terms like social media, networking, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc.  The very things that the average computer user spends doing every day.  For anyone interested in helping to find a cure for MS (or any other cause for that matter), these tools provide a valuable way of spreading information in a fun, engaging way.

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Be Careful What You Post – Protect Your Reputation

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Two days ago, “the world” celebrated Safer Internet Day 2010.  Unfortunately, and as I predicted, you probably didn’t hear anything about this event unless you read it here on the JumpstartMyPC.com blog.  I am not quite sure why, but this movement didn’t get any exposure or hype in the United States.  The real issue with this is that we desperately need to educate our children, teens and even adults on the harm that can be caused by posting inappropriate materials anywhere on the web.

Computers have really changed since the days of the apple IIe.  No longer are they giant beige boxes with floppy disc drives.  Today, computers come in all shapes and sizes and it seems like you can’t turn on a device without connecting it to the internet.  Phones, cameras and even game systems make it possible for anyone with the ability to punch a button to post material to sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, Flickr…. the list goes on and on.  Yet, there are no warnings of the potential dangers associated with your behavior behind that keyboard and mouse.  So how do we educate the children and teens of today to prepare themselves for the world ahead?

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Safer Internet Day 2010 – Think B4 U Post!

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Today is a big day, although you might not hear much about it at all.  In my research to bring you information on the Social Media Credit Score series, I stumbled across a movement from the European Schoolnet called Safer Internet Day 2010.   This event, which has been held for several years now, was organized to “promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world.”  The topic for 2010 is Think B4 U post!

Although this movement was originated in Europe, and now encompasses 500 events in 60 countries all over the world, it doesn’t seem to have caught on in the US. I’m not sure why, but I know that this is something we definitely need to start teaching our children, teens and well…. everyone.  New technologies, like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, cell phone cameras, Flip video cameras, etc. have turned us all into publishers of information.  Thanks to these technologies, a photo or video can be taken, posted and shared to hundreds, even thousands of people, in minutes.  More recent technologies, like “tagging,” make it even easier to find and share photos of friends and family.

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