Stephanie Booth

"I think online bullying is precisely one of those things we make a lot of hoo-haa about when reality and numbers don't justify it. It's not more common than offline bullying -- just more visible to the adults in children/teens' lives. Have you read danah? (zephoria.org) Bullying doesn't happen in a vacuum, so maybe it could be helpful to have a chat with your kids about what it is, how it works, what to do about it, etc -- assuming you haven't already. I get your concerns about privacy, though I think that we're making judgements based on values of a pre-internet era. I'm sure people were concerned too when people started taking baby photos of their children and putting them in photo albums where everybody could see them 10 years later!" - Stephanie Booth

"About children: there is a lot of paranoia out there about how dangerous the world (online and off) actually is for kids. Read "The Culture of Fear", for one. What exactly do you feel your children are defenseless against? What kind of concrete danger do you imagine you would be putting them in by being more active online? You should have a chat with Euan Semple (and others) who has been very active and open online for years, including when his kids were small (his daughter is now blogging your socks off at 15 or something)." - Stephanie Booth

"Yup, see my first example in this post: http://climbtothestars.org/arc..." - Stephanie Booth

"I'm familiar with this "uncomfortable" state in another context: judo. I've been doing judo for nearly 20 years, and a long time ago I understood that the phases I went through where I felt I was making no progress, where I was even regressing, well, those phases were always followed by a burst of progress. At some point, something would click. I've come to view them as "something cooking", an unpleasant phase where things are getting ready in the background. It helps me stick through them and even embrace them. In my work life, I have that too: when I'm preparing a talk or a lecture, I go through a phase of not really knowing how to tackle it, not having a clear view of what I want to say, etc. Then it clicks into place and I can move forward in my prep. As you say, it's easy to get discouraged in those phases, and reading you has made me realise it's really at those times that I procrastinate the most. Labelling them and being aware of this feels like it will help me tackle them..." - Stephanie Booth

"I use Facebook. I'm not overly concerned about what Facebook might do with my photos (I'm recalling the panic around what would happen with Instagram photos when Facebook bought Instagram). Facebook is the company we love to hate right now. As for evil people checking out my profiles to figure stuff out about me, well, the counter-argument to that is that by making that information public, I also allow my friends and family to be more informed about what is going on in my life. As in, people who care about me. (You know: yeah thieves can see that you're away, but so can your upstairs neighbour, who will then wonder why there is light at your place when you're on holiday.) For me the solution, if you're sharing private/personal stuff you don't want all over the place, is to use friend lists. Control who gets what. Or another option, but it requires your friends to join: Path." - Stephanie Booth

"Sounds like some variation on the "anecdotes trump statistics" theme. Here the rape is a "statistic", meaning an abstract event, but the rapists are "anecdotes", because we've seen them, heard them." - Stephanie Booth

"Time to drop into the Going Solo facebook group you're part of, my friend ;-)" - Stephanie Booth

"Uncanny valley!!" - Stephanie Booth

Taxe au sac: Les ménages essaient de trier mais les conteneurs manquent http://t.co/vrLxqxr0jT > il me semblait bien! - Stephanie Booth

Une rentrée scolaire hors de l’ordinaire pour les 40 élèves du nouveau programme CARRIÈRE http://t.co/IOFGN5W5b6 - Stephanie Booth

Dix raisons pourquoi vos étudiants devraient bloguer http://t.co/emPMyVZvrR - Stephanie Booth

Communication et organisation | Une organisation apprenante http://t.co/mY2mkKwIDr - Stephanie Booth

Les férus de la communication organisationnelle | Un site du cours « Communication et organisation » http://t.co/l6Uplfh2CY - Stephanie Booth

Merci à la communauté: j’ai créé mes nouveaux produits! http://t.co/TOhj31LJp5 le 25.03 #scma - Stephanie Booth