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Social Networks and Facebook in particular can be a minefield for the naive. Most have retro-fitted privacy measures that mean you need to go back and activate them.

Great article (via The Unofficial Facebook Blog) about what you should look out for:

1. Use friend lists to separate out groups of people that can see your profile in full (eg: people in your class and home friends)


2. Remove yourself fro

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Recycling is hip, and it's time to look in your cupboards to see what you could flog.

Check out our guide to turn your stuff into cash (or more stuff ;o)

Tips to selling online

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The re-branding of digitalparents has been fun and has completed a process that I started earlier in the year. Having visited a number of primary and secondary schools, it became clear I could speak at a school, 3 nights a week for the usable part of every term and still not reach a material number of parents.

Instead I decided to build a resource for parents that could be used just as well by people talking to parents. Having followed the launch of n… Continue

Ice hockey coach jailed for affair with schoolgirl - Telegraph

(Via . BBC Radio Berkshire)

Tomorrow I am going on the radio talking about this story that basically comes down to a father checking up on his 15 year old daughter only to discover that she is having an affair with her ice hockey coach.

As a father it makes you want to wrap your

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