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A Letter To My Kid: 10 Safety Tips For Digital Youth
From the archives comes this humorous blog post from the perspective of a digital youth safety expert. We, at Metaverse, moderate a variety of destinations, and have a keen perspective of trends...
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Prepping For a New School Year
REJOICE, Parents! School-time has returned! And with this time of year, parents have received the fall school supply list. It can be an expensive time for parents; growing children need new clothes,...
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Limiting Your Kid’s Screen Time is Ok
A recent New York Times article is piquing the interest of many parents – particularly those of us who work in the tech industry. The issue? Should we limit our children’s screen time? With the...
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Understanding the Rise of the Digital Celebrity
PewDiePie. iJustine. Smosh. They sound like the fall line-up on Nickelodeon, or trendy smart phone apps, or even Anime characters. In reality, they’re a small sampling of the growing power and trend...
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Metaverse Mod Squad Participates in Extra Life 24 Gaming Event
We’re going to be streaming 24 hours of gaming NON-STOP from our Sacramento office in support of this amazing event called Extra Life — it’s going to be crazy awesome! On October 25th to the 26th,...
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Rediscovering Synergy, Jem’s Synergy!
I’m rediscovering Jem through my four-year-old, and it’s truly, truly, truly outrageous. I like to weave in fun experiences with technology and my kiddos whenever I can. Thanks to the beauty of...
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Capturing A Library of Memories
I cried. No matter how hard I tried, the tears flowed. In February of 2014, we packed up the U-Haul trailer and my kids said goodbye to their “Nonni.” We live in Northern California, and we were...
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Perfecting The Collaborative Holiday!
This year in my family, we are taking advantage of technology for all of our holiday preparations, and for some good reasons. I have a pretty busy schedule in my own time. I have four adult children...
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Road Trips: Past, Present, and Future!
Some of my favorite memories of family vacations when I was a kid were the ones involving road trips. We would either load up the station wagon or fly somewhere and rent a big car and drive around...
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Hacking Education: My Journey into Homeschool Options
I’m on a mission to discover more about home-based education options. My son isn’t at that point just yet, but I want to know how things work and if this is something my son would like to do. At the...
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A Letter To My Kid: 10 Safety Tips For Digital Youth
From the archives comes this humorous blog post from the perspective of a digital youth safety expert. We, at Metaverse, moderate a variety of destinations, and have a keen perspective of trends...
View Article2016: What Wonders Do You Hold For Us?
Josh Smith, our resident Strategic Management Specialist, and I were discussing the promises of 2016. What might this year bring? More Emoji adoration? Wearable mobile devices in the forms of earrings?...
View ArticleThe Super Bowl and Real-Time Social Media Dominance
It’s here. In a few days, titans of football will come clashing down the field in the SUPER BOWL, hosted by our long-time friends and client, the National Football League. Four quarters, 100 yards, and...
View ArticleThe Modern Parent
From the Facebook view of things, parenting seems to be a conglomerate of fun kiddy shenanigans — cute posts of adorably incorrect choices made by a cherub-faced child with scissors and newly cut (yet...
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2015: ModSquad’s Year in Review
With so many of us bogged down with tax preparation and reviewing the past year, we can’t help but reflect on 2015 and all the goodness that took place over those 12 months. It was a banner year here...
View ArticleModSquad Celebrates Cinco de Mayo
While the common misconception is that the fifth of May is Mexico’s Independence Day, it is not (that’s actually September 16th). What May 5th actually commemorates is the Mexican Army’s victory over...
View ArticleKickstarting a Masters in Minecraft
When we were scouting potential sites for our European Operations Centre (Dublin, Belfast, Galway, Berlin), we met a lovely gentleman by the name of Mark Naguraski. Mark was one of our hosts in Derry...
View ArticleWhat To See and Do In My Town (Executive Edition)
Over the past six weeks, ModSquad’s Mods, Project Managers, and Account Managers have all contributed insights into the towns which they call home. We’ve had a great time compiling these guides, as...
View ArticleFrom the Mods: What To See and Do In My Town (Latin America Edition)
With the imminent arrival of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the world is (slowly) shifting its attention away from their Pokémon Go screens to the Latin American region. We’re doing the same...
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ModSquad’s Guide to Twitter Chats
The first use of a hashtag on Twitter was in 2007, over a year after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sent the first ever tweet. how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]? — Chris...
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