Exploring youth engagement in a digital age
Community for youth workers & other youth professionals exploring digital dimensions of their work. Sponsored by Practical Participation.
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Using Twitter to enhance your service and your professional practice - 1/2 day training
23rd February 201210.00 am – 1.30pmVenue: Stratford E15 There are currently over 75 million people who have joined Twitter. 10,000 people join Twitter each day. It is becoming an important tool to communicate your service to young people, other clients, partners and funders. Twitter can also keep you up-dated around a wide range of opportunities.Some past comments made:It is an excellent tool to network with other like minded professionals to exchange ideas, questions, information and…See More
Blog post by Tony Cisse
Adam Muirhead replied to Adam Muirhead's discussion 'Do young people connect to youth workers/projects using facebook for relational reasons or more for IAG?' in the group Social Media Surgery
Hi Helen, thanks for that, I'll definitely check those out. Different horses needed for different courses I'm supposing...
Dave Danis liked Tony Cisse's blog post 'How should youth councils & youth services use Facebook?'
The Berlin International Economic Conference
Call for Applications ****** Dear Friends and Colleagues,On behalf of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, we are writing to bring to your attention upcoming major program hosted by the ICD in partnership with other leading organizations. Held in Berlin, the upcoming programs will bring together economists, governmental and diplomatic officials, civil society practitioners, private-sector representatives, journalists, young professionals, students, scholars and other interested stakeholders…See More
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Helen replied to Adam Muirhead's discussion 'Do young people connect to youth workers/projects using facebook for relational reasons or more for IAG?' in the group Social Media Surgery
Hey, not sure if you've ever checked out the BBC One FB page on Sunday Surgery Night? Lots of young people using it for IAG - infact I'm often surprised by how open people are in terms of talking about sensitive subjects out in the open. I…
Adam Muirhead replied to Adam Muirhead's discussion 'Do young people connect to youth workers/projects using facebook for relational reasons or more for IAG?' in the group Social Media Surgery
Apologies, I need to work on my acronym busting don't I? By "IAG" I mean "Information, Advice and Guidance"...
Do young people connect to youth workers/projects using facebook more for relational reasons or more for IAG?
Hi,I'm currently trying to answer this question through my dissertation and in the mean time am interested in other people's experiences of this...It seems to me that the answer to this question would help to establish how we go about setting up pages etc and how it is we most effectively harness youthwork within fb. See More
Adam Muirhead added a discussion to the group Social Media Surgery
Social Media Surgery
The online version of the unconference place for advice and guidance on using social media to engage with young people. NOT a clinic!
Adam Muirhead joined Dave Briggs's group
How should youth councils & youth services use Facebook?
Why not contribute to this debate on the very interesting blog Youthwork Ethics, a blog site where youth workers can debate ethical issueshttp://youthworkethics.blogspot.com/2010/10/facebook.html#moreSee More
Blog post by Tony Cisse
What are your Youth Work and the Internet predictions for 2012?
Last year was an interesting year for digital youth work. In some ways, the centrality of social media, the Internet and digital tools is becoming just an accepted part of the way youth work should take place - in other ways, we're still a long way from digital skills being mainstream - and although many initiatives are taking place across Europe to explore digital youth work they are taking place in pockets not altogether connected up.But - instead of looking back - let's look forward to 2012.…See More
Blog post by Tim Davies
From the YWSN Project Blog
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We finished and presented the NYA funded Youth Work and Social Networking report just under a year ago - and whilst this blog has been fairly quiet, lots has been going on to take forward some of the ideas from...Online interventions can change online behaviour
One of our suggestions in the Youth Work and Social Networking research was that youth workers who find young people to have risky or 'unsuitable' information on their Social Network Site profiles, or finding profiles where the privacy settings have...Opportunity Links: research presentation
I recently presented the findings of the Youth Work and Social Networking research at a conference organised by Opportunity Links. The presentation was videoed and at 20 minutes is probably the best brief overview of the research available to watch...danah boyd on 'online street workers'
danah boyd, whose work leads the field when it comes to understanding young people's interaction with and experiences of Social Network Sites has just shared on her blog an exploration of the Lori Drew online bullying case in the US...Voices from practice: how to get started with SNS in youth work...
Much of the learning for the Youth Work and Social Networking project cam from the fantastic work going on in Devon to pioneer and explore new approaches to online engagement with young people, driven forward by the brilliant Katie Bacon....Welcome to Youth Work Online
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Using Twitter to enhance your service and your professional practice - 1/2 day training
Posted by Tony Cisse on January 24, 2012 at 12:55pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
How should youth councils & youth services use Facebook?
Posted by Tony Cisse on January 12, 2012 at 12:12pm 0 Comments 1 Like
What are your Youth Work and the Internet predictions for 2012?
Posted by Tim Davies on January 9, 2012 at 3:37pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Social Media Assistant vacancy
Posted by Michael Larbalestier on December 15, 2011 at 3:26pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Social Media Policy Guide from New South Wales, Australia
Posted by Tim Davies on December 15, 2011 at 2:53pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
FACEBOOK Security and investigations from both the US and EU.
Posted by Katie Bacon on December 1, 2011 at 10:57am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Asperger Teens
Posted by Tamara Silicka on November 23, 2011 at 2:16pm 1 Comment 0 Likes
Research into how youth workers use digital tools
Posted by Jane Melvin on November 23, 2011 at 2:05pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Virtualcollaborating.com. Online collaboration for everyone, where, when and how they want it.
Posted by Johanne Gilroy on November 15, 2011 at 1:36pm 1 Comment 1 Like
Are you interested in finding new ways for digital technology to support young people's mental health and wellbeing?
Posted by Tony Cisse on November 15, 2011 at 1:35pm 1 Comment 2 Likes
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The Berlin International Economic Conference
Started by ICD Academy in Month of Action Jan 16. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Call for Applications ****** Dear Friends and Colleagues,On behalf of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, we are writing to bring to your attention upcoming major program hosted by the ICD in…Continue
Social Networking the new Youth Worker?
Started by Scott Howland in Youth Work and Social Networking. Last reply by Scott Howland Dec 11, 2011. 2 Replies 0 Likes
I look at facebook and see 1000's of young people every night engaged in conversations and topics online. I look at local youth clubs and see 6 young people. Its a no brainer! The WEB and SOCIAL…Continue
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Facebook groups, ways forward
Started by Sam Punn in Youth Work and Social Networking. Last reply by Tom Gaskin Dec 6, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Hi everyone, First post here so hello!I work for a small local charity supporting young people. We have a local base but would like to offer online support at least countywide and possibly across the…Continue
The ICD Annual Academic Conference on Cultural Diplomacy 2011 (Berlin, December 15th - 18th, 2011)
Started by ICD Academy in Month of Action Dec 1, 2011. 0 Replies 0 Likes
The ICD Annual Academic Conference on Cultural Diplomacy 2011“Cultural Diplomacy and International Relations: New Actors, New Initiatives, New Targets”(Berlin, December 15th - 18th, 2011)…Continue
Calling for case studies: how are you using social networks in work with young people?
Started by Tim Davies in Youth Work and Social Networking. Last reply by Lucy read Nov 28, 2011. 14 Replies 0 Likes
For the next part of the Youth Work and Social Networking research I'm hoping to put together a range of case studies on how youth services have engaged…Continue
Facebook and Young People with Autism
Started by Dan Davies in Month of Action Nov 28, 2011. 0 Replies 0 Likes
I'm soon to start looking at engaging with young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders through Facebook and other social media tools.Has anybody done this before and willing to share some…Continue
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FREE - Your Workforce: Their Future
March 1, 2012 from 10am to 3pm – London, EC1R 0NA
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