GREAT video on the value of kids virtual worlds

May 13, 2008

Go now and watch the Fast Company video from these posts. No, I’ll wait. The whole thing too, it’s all good.

http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/video-disney-on.html
OR here
http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/2008/04/ive-said-it-bef.html

Well done Disney. Slow hard clap. I virtually shake your hand.

There are some days when I am so proud of what I do. These sorts of videos are the ones I have to watch when I am not having one of those days. I just wish I saw it when it was originally posted…

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Tags: virtualworlds, disney, vmk, club penguin, toon town, pirates of the Caribbean, kids

Entry Filed under: Club Penguin, Disney, gaming, kids, online community, tween, virtual worlds. .

Some HTML allowed:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <pre> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Trackback this post | Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed

My tweets (@joipod)

Finally got my LinkedIn contacts 2 sync 2 my address book. Welcome new peeps! Forgot abt the tsunami of acceptances i'm abt 2 get now, yikes 10 hours ago
Interesting non-legally approach to kids UGC rights RT @musingvirtual: Kids & Copyright http://nextbison.wordpress.com (via @asbruckman) 13 hours ago
Brilliant. Do it & then let us know how 2 help. RT @tlittleton Is thr an award ceremony 4 the best OCMs voted by industry & communities? 13 hours ago
Maintaining my social networks sometimes feels like tending houseplants. Watering, pruning dead leaves, considering repotting. 1 day ago
Just saw a sleepy rugby guy hit on pretty gal by shoving his luggage at her. And I think it worked. 6 days ago
I am 4sqr stalking u. Love Sonoma! RT @AmyMMS I'm at The Girl & the Fig (110 W Spain St, 1st St W, Sonoma) 6 days ago
Sf to chicago in 14 hours. Ugh, new record for me. I have made it to china in similar time. 6 days ago
#sxsw are fun to read when trapped on the tarmac, waiting for a gate. Not really fun otherwise. Just sayin.. 6 days ago
Finally boarding! 7 hour layover. Hrmph... 6 days ago
Stuck in SLC airport while everyone I know is having fun in SF, CHI and Austin. Sad face. Also, overtired and therefore cranky 6 days ago
@twizznerd RT @WhiskyEileen grope grope grope 6 days ago
After a crappy, early morning at SFO and tiny united flight to SLC, love the upgrade I just got from my preferred airline, @AAirwaves 6 days ago
God I hope I catch my flight in the morning. So very tired. Chi-town here I come! 6 days ago
OH: if it fits in a microwave, it belongs in a microwave. Re: cats 1 week ago
OH: You have to know the shadows, to be able to bring them to the light 1 week ago

Joi's del.icio.us ...... (she is!)

My Shared Google Reader articles

Social Media and the FTC: What Businesses Need to Know December 16, 2009
Dallas Lawrence is Chair of the Social and Digital Media Practice at Levick Strategic Communications, the nation’s top crisis communications firm. He blogs on emerging digital media trends and best practices for social media engagement on Bulletproof Blog. Connect with him on Twitter @dallaslawrence. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is finally catching up […]
Dallas Lawrence
McDonald's Meat Is Safer Than Your Kid's School Lunch December 9, 2009
You might assume that the meat your kids get from their school cafeteria is held to higher standards than the flesh that's fed through the grinders at McDonald's or Burger King. Not exactly, according to USA Today. The paper conducted an investigation and found that "millions of pounds of beef and chicken" served up in schools wouldn […]
Marc Perton
10 Rules for Increasing Community Engagement December 16, 2009
Getting people to interact with others and upload content to a community-driven site enough may sound easy, but engagement doesn’t happen automatically. It takes time and work, and much of the right formula is deduced through trial and error. Here are 10 tips for increasing user engagement that work for news community web sites, but can apply to all types of […]
Leah Betancourt
OPEN WEB AWARDS 2009: The Winners December 16, 2009
Mashable is proud to announce the winners of the 3rd annual Open Web Awards: Social Media Edition! The Open Web Awards is our international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology and achievements in Social Media. Previous winners include Facebook, Pandora, iGoogle, Google Maps, Digg, Mahalo, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, ShareT […]
Pete Cashmore
Planet Turtle Early Results Please Owners McGraw-Hill December 10, 2009
Earlier this year, publishing giant The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. quietly took Planet Turtle, a virtual world to help kindergarten through third grade students practice math skills, live. It was part of an effort of the company's Center for Digital Innovation to "leverage technology for an educational approach that goes beyond the traditional […]
Curt Feldman