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About Us
Welcome to Net Family News!
Baby-boomers were the first generation of parents and teachers of kids in cyberspace, and now we're joined by Gen X parents as well. With 125 million kids (under 18)* online - working, communicating, and playing in an environment sometimes hostile to their best interests - Internet literacy has become an essential part of parenting and of working with children. The best way to help our kids have safe, constructive times online is for us to keep informed about this new environment and engaged in their online experiences. The weekly Net Family Newsletter, distributed in partnership with SafeKids.com and Childnet International, helps adults do just that.
Net Family News is the journal-of-record on all aspects of kids and digital media. There is no other publication of its kind on or off the Net. For six years this free nonprofit news service has been covering...
- Online safety and privacy news and tools
- New technologies and Web resources for kids
- Research about the impact of digital media on kids
- Legislation affecting children's online experience
- School and library Net-use policy
- How Web-literate kids, parents, and teachers are using the Internet.
Our weekly newsletter is delivered via email to subscribers throughout North America and more than 50 countries on every continent. It's archived here in our Web site. We provide daily kid-tech news in our blog and via an RSS news feed (click on the headlines on the left-hand side of our partners' home pages - SafeKids.com, Netmom.com, and Childnet International, which has the headlines moving across the middle of its page, ticker-tape-style).
Net Family News is unique in four ways:
- Our daily and weekly frequencies and multi-format approach provide maximum online accessibility to parents (we hope some day to have the resources to provide a print edition)
- We're a parent-driven service, filtering tech news for fellow parents and, with permission, publishing the family-tech stories and issues they send in - as well as relevant news on the education front.
- Having covered this field for nearly a decade, we're a clearinghouse for tech-parenting expertise in all directions - that of our readers themselves, as well as researchers, policymakers, children's advocates, and businesspeople providing products and services for kids and families.
- We're a "community newspaper" of the Digital Age - the information source for and communications node of a vibrant, worldwide interest community: grownups with young tech users' best interests in mind.
First formed in mid-1997 as SageNet, the organization evolved into The Sage Family, then began the process in September 1998 of reorganizing as a non-profit called Net Family News, Inc. We've published an online-parenting newsletter since the beginning, and the Net Family Newsletter will continue to be the core of our expanding services to parents.
Who We Are
Anne Collier is editor, executive director and founder of Net Family News. Its earlier iteration, SageNet, was founded by Jenny Ambrozek and Lynne Bundesen. Their bios and those of NFN's current board members, Jean Armour Polly and Lawrence J. Magid, are here.Net Family News is on the Advisory Board of GetNetWise.org, a national online-safety public service supported by Internet industry corporations and public service organizations (please see our press release for more). And in 1998-'99 NFN was a sponsor of America Links Up, a nationwide Internet education campaign launched during National Kids Online Week in September.
E-mail us anytime with thoughts on what you'd like to see in the newsletter, your own family's online experiences, or comments about what's going on with the Internet at large or in your own community. We always love hearing from fellow parents.
Contributions
We're a not-for-profit, 501(c)3 organization, so your contributions are tax-deductible and most welcome! Contributions can easily be made electronically from our Support page, or makes checks payable to:
Net Family News, Inc.
1121 Third Avenue
Salt Lake City, UT 84103Thank you for supporting Net Family News. We are always happy to hear from potential underwriters and distribution partners as well. Email or call our editorial offices at 801.596.3119.
* 6/03 figure for online kids worldwide from Computer Economics, Inc., Carlsbad, Calif. [Jupiter Research projects 42.8 million US kids online by the end of 2005.]
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