News & Events 2012

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Archive 2011

May 2012

Kennon Jackson, BrdsNBz National Director and graduate student, Jessica Willoughby, announce the publication of their co-authored paper published in The Journal of Sex Education. This is a major milestone for the award winning BrdsNBz text messaging platform as we continue our commitment to research through peer-review. Read the abstract here.

March 2012

2012 Sex:Tech Conference presenters – “What are they really asking? Adolescents’ questions about pregnancy posed to an interactive text message service”

February 2012

The PlumbBrain social network proudly participated in Safe Place’s Start Strong Austin - “Riot The Silence 2 End Dating Violence” kick off event in Austin, Texas

OneSeventeen Media attends the Texas SB434 Sub-committee on Domestic Violence Prevention Best Practices

Archive 2011

December 2011

        Austin Fit Magazine profiles OneSeventeen Media’s PlumbBrain
        Social Network’s partnership with the City of Austin’s Healthy
        Adolescent Initiative

        PlumbBrain, OneSeventeen Media’s social network that helps kids
        navigate their growing up years, launches the PlumbBrain Internet
        Talk Radio Network pilot with show co-hosts Ivy Koehler and
        Stephanie Reich, MD OB/GYN

October 2011

OneSeventeen attends the BCorp Annual Retreat in Philadelphia, PA

CBS affiliate KHOU CH. 11 Houston, Texas interviews co-founder
Amy Looper regarding teens sexting with social media

September 2011

The City of Austin, Texas expands PlumbBrain and the BrdsNBz
services with OneSeventeen Media

July 2011

The City of Austin, Texas awards OneSeventeen Media their Austin
Healthy Adolescent Initiative contract for both the PlumbBrain

Social Network, the Youth and Parent BrdsNBz Sex Education text
messaging services licensing agreements

June 2011

OneSeventeen Media becomes a “Pioneer rated company” through
the Global Impact Investing Rating System (GIIRS) in partnership

with BCorp’s BLab. Learn more about Ratings and Analytics for
Impact Investing here: http://giirs.org/

April 2011

        OneSeventeen Media through its public/private partnership with the
        Adolescent Pregnancy Prevnetion Campaign of North Carolina award
        Aiken, SC. with a BrdsNBz award winning text messaging service
        license agreement

OneSeventeen Media is recertified as an approved certified BCorp.
OneSeventeen Media continues to be proud as Texas’ first BCorp!

March 2011

Net Impact Dallas taps OneSeventeen Media (Texas’ first BCorp) to
form an alliance to expand BCorp companies in Texas.

OneSeventeen Media helps Engender Health with youth-based social
media strategic planning for their Gender Matters Project

February 2011

Amy Looper appears as a guest and anti bullying expert on Great

Day Houston, KHOU Channel 11, Houston, TX

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