CCFC Summit Profile: Julie Gale
The best way to tell you about the Campaign for a Commerical-Free Childhood Summit is to introduce you to some of the people who were there. (If you’d like a summary of the Summit, read my guest post at So Sioux Me, and while you’re there, find out how Tracee Sioux is empowering mothers and daughters.)
All the way from Australia came Julie Gale, founder of Kids Free 2B Kids. Julie presented on advertising, regulations, and the sexualization of children. She elaborates on the issues faced in Australia in a 2007 television interview (which is also a great introduction to childhood sexualization):
Part 2 of the interview and other interviews are here.
I met Julie when she attended the lunch roundtable for bloggers. I hope she is able to join us in the blogosphere soon.
Parents for Ethical Marketing shares a goal with Kids Free 2B Kids: to gather concerned parents — and others — in one place as a voice for community standards. Join us.
Additionally, I was able to meet Mom from Outside the (Toy) Box and Amy from Shaping Youth. As bloggers, Mom and Amy have been with me since my Two Knives days, and it was crazy fun to finally meet them face-to-face. Mom also introduced me to Amy from Equally Shared Parenting, a resource and blog about, well, equally shared parenting.
More takes on the CCFC Summit:
MomsRising.org
Twixter’s Sabbatical
Center on Media and Child Health
Equally Shared Parenting
April 25th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Hey Lisa, now that’s the second time today I’ve heard the word crazy associated with my name…heehee…
The other mention was Brian Reich who said I was ‘crazy smart’ so I think you folks are all way too digitally hipster chic for me to keep up.
Actually, Brian is someone you should ALL meet too. (can’t we just have a CCFC quarterly connex rotating regions or somethin’? It was such fun…
Brian is one of my Age of Conversation co-author pals, who’s Boston based (formerly at Cone Branding, now at EchoDitto) and is very much in the ‘do gooder’ mode of using media for positive things (Alliance for Climate Protection, etc.) and in fact, he’s the one that put me on the AHA panel for teen new media in Tx., yet we STILL haven’t met F2F, even though we’d planned on it at CCFC. Dang.
Anyway, his new book, “Media Rules: Mastering Today’s Technology” is a must read for us all in the nonprofit blogosphere/social media realm when it comes to gaining greater impact, so give it a peek. I’ll be posting an interview with him on Shaping Youth soon…just backlogged (quel surprise, eh?) and unearthing new ventures…
Miss seeing you ladies already…it was GREAT fun…(and man, that grilled asparagus was delectable!)
Are you coming to BlogHer S.F. this summer? Maybe we can have a mini-reunion?
Also agree I’d love to get Julie Gale blogging pronto too…she has much to say and the wit to say it well!
What a hoot, and a pleasure to hear her speak at the summit…more soon, Amy J.
April 30th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
She says the biggest market for this is the 8-12 year olds. Uh….there has to be a parent there somewhere buying this stuff for their kids. I think if the parents just smarten the ‘f’ up and ‘just say no’ then it wouldn’t be an issue.
It all comes down to supply and demand for everything. They wouldn’t be marketing it if it didn’t make them money.