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Your Highlights from the 2013 AJLI Winter Leadership Conference
What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas. Just ask the Junior League leaders who captured highlights from the AJLI Winter Leadership Conference in their personal tweets and photos.
Did you know…?
A special post from AJLI‘s Laurie Dodge, Marketing and Communications Director 48 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute* YouTube is the second largest search engine* 70% of…
Let’s face it – most cyber-bullying starts at school
It’s an unpleasant topic. School districts don’t want to talk about it. Kids talk about it but don’t necessarily tell their parents about it. Parents talk about it among themselves and hope it doesn’t happen to their children.
We’re talking about cyber-bullying, and it almost always starts at school. For the most part, cyber-bullying is like other forms of bullying – and kids survive it and move on. But sometimes they don’t – as we saw in the recent suicides of Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi and Massachusetts high school student Phoebe Prince.
Girl…How Things Have Changed!
Eleven decades ago, when Mary Harriman and her fellow Junior Leaguers wanted to communicate, they likely sent a telegram or picked up a telephone receiver and asked an operator to dial an alpha-numeric code — “Murray Hill 2977” was the code at the New York City office in 1914 — over a crackly line. That is, if they weren’t dispatching a manservant to hand-deliver a handwritten note on parchment sealed with wax.