As you prepare for a new school year and check items off supply lists, calm nerves, and remind kids of routines, it’s also important to make sure your family is tech ready. To make it easy, here’s a back-to-school tech checklist featuring quick things to do before the year starts. Back to School Tech Checklist…
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Giving Your Child Their First Cell Phone? Read this first!
This post is sponsored by Google Family Link and Be Internet Awesome If you’re giving your child their first cell phone (or any digital device), take some time to develop a strategy for what happens next. It’s ok if you haven’t thought this until now because you’ve been focused on trying to figure who has…
8 Tech Resolutions for 2025
January is almost over but it doesn’t mean it’s too late to make some tech resolutions for 2025. Maybe you want to evaluate your social media platforms to figure out where you want to spend your time to preserve your digital wellbeing. Perhaps it’s time to have another conversation with your kids about screen time…
9 Tips for Moving Beyond Blogging as a Hobby #BizofBlogging
This is a sponsored post When I started Tech Savvy Mama in 2008, I never imagined that my place on the web could develop into a full time business and brand. Last week when my site relaunched with a brand new shiny design, I had an opportunity to pause, reflect, and think back to the…
Hey Tweens! Here’s What My Tween Wants You to Know About Instagram
This post was written by my 12 year old daughter, Emily, who started on Instagram to follow my travels for work. She has grown up watching me use social media and wanted to share her perspective with parents and other kids. Lots of tweens these days are clamoring for social media and the most popular…
Important Conversations to Have with Your Kids About Instagram
Since Lisa Frame posted The Very Public Side of Private Instagram Accounts on this blog, we’ve received comments expressing reactions ranging from surprise to those saying that this is just another example of the lack of cross platform security that has always existed as data moves fluidly across social networks and sharing tools. The post…
The Importance of Teaching Kids to Own their Own Data (& why my son is like the Snuffalufagus of my digital world)
This is part of a sponsored post series for Domain.ME Pop quiz: How many kids do I have? Answer: 2 If you thought of Emily and answered one, don’t feel too badly. There’s a reason why you might not have thought of her eight year old younger brother. Emily’s eight year old younger brother makes…
Celebrating Tech Savvy Mama’s 7th Anniversary by Reclaiming ME
This post was sponsored by domain .ME; however, all thoughts and opinions are my own. Next month I’ll celebrate Tech Savvy Mama’s 7th anniversary. What started out as a hobby and a way of sharing helpful tidbits with parents about the best educational software and websites has become so much more. Who knew seven years…
Drawing My Line in the Sand to Preserve Our Family’s Digital Privacy #ShareAwesome
Despite being tech savvy, there’s a line in the sand that I won’t cross when it comes to keeping my family safe online. Social media requires me to maintain a constant online presence for my Tech Savvy Mama brand but that image is carefully curated to maintain my family’s privacy. I carefully evaluate apps, websites,…
Social Good Summit: Using Digital Tools to Change the World #2030Now
How can new technology and new media can create solutions for the problems that our communities face to shape a better future? This is the question that the annual will be focusing on as attendees come together in New York City for this annual event that also invites everyone to create and join meetups to discuss…
