blogs

Fifteen-year-old Becca has the habit of revealing too much personal information about herself and her friends, but when her boyfriend breaks up with her and she vows to stop "oversharing, " she does not realize that her blog postings are not nearly as anonymous as she thought.

Thirteen-year-old Genevieve's summer at a frontier family history camp in Laramie, Wyoming, with her parents and brother is filled with surprises, which she reports to friends back home on the cell phone she sneaked in, and which they turn into a blog.

Explains the basics of how to create and run a blog, citing popular blogs, giving design ideas, suggesting host sites, and utilizing social networking tools.

When Tori's parents allow her to invite five Lakeview girls on a California ski trip over President's Weekend, she agonizes over how to tell the others they cannot come, then learns that the camp reunion is scheduled for the same weekend.

The girls from Camp Lakeview keep in touch through a blog as Priya deals with a science fair project, Alyssa fights for the chance to be featured in an arts magazine, Val vies for a spot in a dance recital, and a Tori attracts the attention of the son of one of her father's clients.

Having left summer camp to return home, the girls from bunk 3C use a blog to keep one another informed of their struggles adjusting to 6th grade at their respective schools and to new situations at home.

Explains what a blog is and how to create your own blog, including the origins of the blog, advice on what to write and how to build an audience, and provides rules and etiquette.

Computer whiz Erin Swift starts eighth grade full of optimism, but the new school year brings a whole new set of problems, and it takes a personal tragedy to give her some perspective and help her get back on track.

"To help you understand MySpace, the authors step you through how to set up and personalize a MySpace account and how to manage an online social life. Then they look at how young people are changing the Internet and how to guide them as they navigate the social Web"--Back cover.