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Duncan Hodgson commented on Olly Benson's blog post We Need Young People - a website what I built (http://www.wnyp.org)
"Hi Olly We are currently in the process of redesigning www.rubothered.co.uk which we are planning to launch in December and this is something that we are keen to include. Is there some kind of API mailing list you can put me on to let me know about…"
Nov 13, 2009
Hilary Mason commented on Olly Benson's blog post We Need Young People - a website what I built (http://www.wnyp.org)
"Hi Olly I'm liking the concept. Info I currently gather from different sources usually gets posted into our Service wide Monday email but I think this sort of website will be useful. Have you thought about links to Do It and the other…"
Nov 4, 2009
Tim Davies commented on Olly Benson's blog post We Need Young People - a website what I built (http://www.wnyp.org)
"Hey Olly Looks really interesting... will explore more soon. This certainly adds well to the growing eco-system of youth-focussed APIs and feeds of data out there - which is great :) Tim"
Oct 7, 2009
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We Need Young People - a website what I built (http://www.wnyp.org)

Hello,This is the result of an idea I've been mulling over for a while.There are loads of opportunities for young people to get involved - from consultations, media requests, competitions, debates, surveys etc. The sort of thing that involve winning an iPod.Anyway, these get emailed around various networks; but wouldn't it be a good idea if we collected them in one central place and then people could distribute them as and how they like.And that's what…See More
Oct 6, 2009
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Oct 6, 2009
Olly Benson commented on MonaWalsh's blog post Teens Don't Twitter
"YPs are so fickle!!! My friend, an early adopter with teenage children, got fed up of having to reject friend-requests from his kids friends. He'd already decided it wasn't fair to be Facebook-friends with his kids. Their friends loved the…"
Aug 20, 2009
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Jan 29, 2009

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Programme Manager for Do-it; the national volunteer database run by youth communications charity YouthNet.

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We Need Young People - a website what I built (http://www.wnyp.org)

Posted on October 6, 2009 at 22:30 3 Comments

Hello,



This is the result of an idea I've been mulling over for a while.



There are loads of opportunities for young people to get involved - from consultations, media requests, competitions, debates, surveys etc. The sort of thing that involve winning an iPod.



Anyway, these get emailed around various networks; but wouldn't it be a good idea if we collected them in one central place and then people could distribute them as and how they like.



And that's… Continue

New look TheSite.org

Posted on October 20, 2008 at 17:30 3 Comments

Hi,

I thought you might all like to know that the new look TheSite.org has (finally) gone live!

Comments, praise and constructive criticism all greatly received.

Best wishes,


Olly

Comment Wall (1 comment)

At 19:23 on June 20, 2008, Tim Davies said…
Welcome Olly

Great to have TheSite represented in the network here...

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