In my search to find the right tools to help us protect our children, I came across uKnow (www.uKnow.com), a parental controls software company based in Virginia. They make several tools to help protect and track your children. I will look into them further in a later blog post, but wanted to inform you quickly about them in case you were close to making a decision on what software to use.

The products are:

• uKnowKids claims to be the world’s first Parental Intelligence system (according to their website). In a nutshell, it provides Mobile Monitoring, Social Monitoring (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter), Locator tools and “Parental Intelligence”, which provides you with analysis and insight into what is really going on with your child. There is a way
• uKnowID helps families manage their digital footprint across the Internet and provides actionable steps to protect their privacy and control their safety.I was unable to find a way to get more information about this product however, so I am not sure if this product is available or not.
• uKnowFamily lets digital families locate one another and stay connected while on the go. However, as of this writing it looks like this product is not released yet but you can sign up to be notified when it is.

More to come as I learn about these products…