Proactive Parenting Network Announces Partnership With i-SAFE as its Exclusive e-Safety Information Provider

HARRISBURG, Pa., June 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PredictivEdge today announced the Proactive Parenting Network's (PPN) partnership with i-SAFE to become the e-Safety expert, providing valuable e-Safety information and resources for parents through their newly launched website, www.proactiveparentingnetwork.com.  

The Proactive Parenting Network is a solution that empowers parents to provide a safe online environment for their children in an ever-changing digital world.  PPN delivers a comprehensive, proactive solution with premier online safety tools and educational resources.  

"PPN has partnered with i-SAFE to provide parents with the world-class content on Internet safety that their children are learning at school," said William M. Thompson, chairman & CEO of PredictivEdge.  "i-SAFE teaches students how to avoid potentially dangerous situations online and through PPN; parents can now proactively reinforce those messages to ensure their children's safety in an ever-changing digital landscape."  

In addition to educational resources from i-SAFE, PPN offers inSight™, a unique, proprietary social media monitoring and alerting tool that utilizes patent-pending Natural Language Processing technology and behavioral modeling to analyze online conversations, extract insight, and help solve a problem.  It accurately identifies the problem, alerts parents, and provides appropriate educational resources, such as i-SAFE content, to help solve the problem.

According to i-SAFE, more than 83 percent of parents believe their children are sharing personal or identifying information on social networking sites. "Many parents feel overwhelmed about the technology, and yet it's not realistic for them to just shut it off to protect their children online," says Teri Schroeder, CEO and program director of i-SAFE Inc. "With this partnership, parents can confidently embrace technology with their children knowing they will be notified of a possible problem; and with access to i-SAFE resources they will be knowledgeable and savvy parents that children expect and need to 'parent' them through their online issues."

About Proactive Parenting Network

The Proactive Parenting Network (PPN) is a service of PredictivEdge, a private Pennsylvania-based technology company.  PPN provides a comprehensive, proactive solution with premier online safety tools and educational resources that empowers relationships between parents and their children in an ever-changing digital world.  PPN offers online monitoring services and educational resources from leading providers.  For more information, visit www.proactiveparentingnetwork.com.

About I-SAFE

i-SAFE Inc. is a leading publisher of media literacy and digital citizenship education materials and programming with worldwide distribution channels. i-SAFE is dedicated to educating and empowering youth to safely, responsibly and productively use Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). i-SAFE's classroom curriculum for primary and secondary school students is embedded with dynamic community outreach activities to empower students, teachers, parents, law enforcement professionals and other community members to control their online experiences by proficiently and independently exercising a learned and practiced ability to use the Internet and other ICT with a level of sophistication that results in increased safety and utility. To date, more than 32 million students have been trained utilizing i-SAFE curriculum in more than 4,500 school districts across the United States and in 33 countries around the world.

SOURCE Proactive Parenting Network