 Anne Collier's NetFamilyNews.org is the digital "community newspaper" of the tech-parenting and online-safety community - the only news service of its kind on the Web. Its "kid-tech news for parents" is designed to empower and educate grownups with the latest information on children's tech interests and practices, as well as their online safety. NetFamilyNews is delivered daily and weekly in a variety of formats: an email newsletter, RSS feed, blog, podcast, and Web site.
Anne is also co-director of ConnectSafely.org and co-author of MySpace Unraveled: What it is and how to use it safely .
Anne is a mom, analyst, children's advocate, and journalist who has worked in media since 1980 - in print and radio and on TV and the Web. She served as a stringer for the Christian Science Monitor in Southeast Asia. She later served as Asia editor; associate producer for MonitorRadio; and Tokyo correspondent and award-winning, Boston-based national correspondent for World Monitor, a nightly TV news program that aired nationwide on The Discovery Channel. In 1995 and '96, she helped launch the Monitor's Web site, CSMonitor.com, heading its editorial staff. In January 1999 she founded Tech Parenting Group, the nonprofit public service that publishes NetFamilyNews.
Anne has been a contributor to Children's Technology Revue magazine and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's NetSmartz.org. She serves on the Advisory Council of the Washington- and London-based Family Online Safety Institute and the Advisory Board of GetNetWise.org in Washington, and she works in close association with sister organizations SafeKids.com, Netmom.com, and London-based Childnet International.
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  Larry Magid's SafeKids.com is quite probably the world's best-known Internet safety resource worldwide. The site contains a range of resources on Internet safety for parents and children, including rules, advice, and contracts for family Internet use. Larry, a dad himself, is the author of the earliest and most widely circulated Internet safety guide, Child Safety on the Information Highway, published in 1994 by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Updated and reprinted many times, it has become the standard work by which all other guides are judged. He serves on the board of the National Center.
Larry is also co-director of ConnectSafely.org and co-author of MySpace Unraveled: What it is and how to Use it Safely (Peachpit Press, Berkeley, Calif., August 2006).
Larry is however, first and foremost, a journalist and commentator on technology matters. He serves as on-air technology analyst for CBS News and has been syndicated technology columnist for more than two decades. His columns have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, International Herald Tribune, CNN.com, AOL, CBSNews.com, and numerous newspapers and Web sites throughout the world. Larry currently contributes to the New York Times, and his technology reports can be heard several times a week on CBS network and affiliate stations throughout the United States. In addition, he appears frequently on television and contributes regularly to radio programs in other parts of the world, including London drive-time morning radio.
Larry's tech columns can be found at PCAnswer.com and his other podcasts can be heard at RadioLarry.com.
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