What Does The Law Say? There is no actual Australian law that says that a school, public or private in Australia MUST resolve a cyber bullying issue that happens outside of the school grounds, but involves students from the same school. There are certainly recommendations to schools from the Department Of Education in each… Continue Reading
You Can Do it….But Only Under Our Roof! There’s a parenting style that some parents have advocated, probably since the cave man days, that it is better to supervise their underage child’s use of adult pursuits whether it’s alcohol/sex/smoking or even illegal drugs than to ban it completely as it will only push it… Continue Reading
Channel 10 News 20th May 2013 Leonie was interviewed for a story about families hiring private detectives to find their child’s cyber bullies. Continue Reading
The Manly Daily 25th May 2013 Leonie appeared in the Manly Daily talking about her Cyber Safety talks aimed at parents on the Northern Beaches. Leonie is working with the Northern Beaches Police Area Command holding public talks to both primary and high schools on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Continue Reading
Leonie’s interview with Ilija Dugandzic from Brisbane’s 96FiveFM about some of the most important tips that parents need to know to keep their children safe on computers and mobile devices. 96.5FM Brisbane Cyber Safety Interview Continue Reading
SBS World News: Leonie Smith was interviewed for SBS World News regarding the Alan Jones Cyber Bullying accusations. Her interview is at the end of this clip. Continue Reading
Predictably there will be a huge amount of Apple mobile devices given as gifts to kids of all ages in a few weeks time for Christmas. It’s quite likely that kids as young as 4 years old will be given iPad Minis or iPods. It is so important that when setting up these mobile devices… Continue Reading
Lets not confuse the term Cyber Bullying with a public protest done through social media. Certainly during the most recent Alan Jones kerfuffle there have been abusive messages posted both at him, his station 2GB, and his advertisers. But was it the abusive messages, or the rational, but angry posts, and the number of them… Continue Reading
Oh dear poor trolls… Re: Daily Telegraph’s Stop the Trolls… I do think it should be easier to block Twitter bullies and their abusive Tweets, and it should be much harder to create new accounts on Twitter quickly or to create too many multiple accounts. Trolls/Cyber Bullies Not to belittle the hurt and pain… Continue Reading
I’m honoured to be presenting a talk at the October Pittwater Business Limited Breakfast at Bayview Golf Club on the 17th October 2012. This is a unique talk by Leonie Smith who was featured on 60 Minutes last Sunday for the Charlotte Dawson Interview on Bullying and Trolls on Twitter. Leonie expertise as a social… Continue Reading