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How are you enabling the youth workforce to engage with digital media?
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Researching Youth Engagement in a Digital Age

For anyone involved in research around young people, youth work and social technology.

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Mike Amos-Simpson commented on Tim Davies's blog post 'ICT, Ethics and Young People'

I think Zuckerbergs comments are utter crap and typical of somebody very much surrounded by the personal reflections consequent of living in your own very large bubble. It's true to an extent that for many people they are defined by the work they d…

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simon rudiger commented on Tim Davies's blog post 'ICT, Ethics and Young People'

in the latest issue of wired magazine, there's an interview with facebook ceo mark zuckerberg, in it he says 'you have one identity... in facebook's early days, some argued the service (facebook) should offer users both a work and a "fun social" pro…

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Tim Davies commented on Mike O'Donovan's blog post 'Funding Opportunity - "Global Youth Work"'

Hey Mike Welcome. It's more than welcome as a blog post. Thanks for sharing... I'm sure lots of network members will be interested in this one... Tim

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Brief bio: tell us a few facts about you & your interest in digital aspects of work with young people

I'm an independent researcher / consultation / participation practitioner who has found himself working a lot around young people and technology.

A typical working week (not that such things exist) might find me writing a guide on using social media tools for youth engagement, training youth workers in making the most of social networks, running an online course for activists in campaigning with internet video and researching something completely non-internet connected on youth policy or participation practice.

A typical week outside of work might find me spending a lot of time in the kitchen cooking, trying to get out for a good long walk somewhere or staring out of train windows at canals..

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Young Rewired State - Get Involved

I recently wrote about Young Rewired State over on the Plings blog. It's a hack-week taking place this summer for young people with coding or design skills - and there are two ways Youth Work Online members could get involved.

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Posted on June 23, 2010 at 7:52pm —

Facebook Privacy

There have been a lot of debates about Facebook Privacy in the past few weeks: Facebook are progressively changing their defaults to make things more public - which could have some big implications for youth work uses.

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Posted on May 18, 2010 at 2:43pm —

ICT, Ethics and Young People

I ran a workshop at Friday's Connected Generation Conference looking at Ethics and ICT when working with young people.

Often when we think about how practitioners can engage with social technology, we think about 'policies' and 'procedures'. However, in the workshop we stepped back to look at the guiding ethical principles that practitioners base their work on - and how these apply to digital environments.

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Posted on May 11, 2010 at 11:19am — 7 Comments

Where is talk of digital skills for the workforce?

There are a few consultations coming up on the development of training for the youth workforce.

The NYA has just announced one focussed on development of a new youth work sector draft qualification strategy and vocational qualifications for Youth Support Workers and Assistant Youth Support Workers.

However, reading through this, and the other consultations

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Posted on April 15, 2010 at 9:31am — 4 Comments

UNLTD Better Net Awards

UnLTD have a new award scheme out to support innovations and social impact projects that contribute to making a better Internet.

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At 8:08pm on July 5, 2010, Mike Amos-Simpson said…: Thanks Tim - still tied up in planning mostly but thought I'd come out into the wide world again for a short time at least! Hope all is well

At 2:58pm on May 7, 2010, Brent MacKinnon said…: Thanks for the welcome Tim. I've being following YWO and your work for a while but didn't get around to updating my profile and connecting with anyone. There is a growing interest by a few children's mental health services for training youth workers to serve young people online. Not surprisingly their interest quickly expands to all aspects of the organization. I will share more of my role and projects as I reach milestones and have concrete reports to offer.
all the best,
Brent

At 12:04pm on April 16, 2010, Lydia Abbott said…: Thats brilliant Tim, I will be sure to share this with the young people from the Irish Traveller community.
Thanks again, Lydia.

At 11:19am on April 16, 2010, Lydia Abbott said…: Thanks so much Tim, Ill take a look at it now :)

At 11:14am on April 16, 2010, Cathy Benjamin said…: Thanks Tim - I shall do some exploration!

Cathy

At 8:52am on April 15, 2010, Gary Buxton said…: Look forward to reading that :-)

Thinking about attending the course you and Katie are putting on... Will see if I can dig around and find some pennies...

At 4:42pm on April 14, 2010, Gary Buxton said…: Assume my comment was an automated one!! Hello anyways :-) Do let me know what happens re: that lottery question with PW... was following it on twitter with interest!

At 10:17am on December 9, 2009, Sarah Howes said…: Thank you very much for the reading list, I'm looking forward to getting started, just wish I had time to start reading now.

Sarah

At 10:35pm on November 27, 2009, Sarah Howes said…: Hi Tim,

I've been following your online updates and am really interested in the future of youth work online. I'm currently studying an MA in youth work at Brunel and intend to write my dissertation on the topic. Do you possibly have any tips on directions for reading? Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks,

Sarah

At 10:57am on November 10, 2009, Adam Williams said…: Morning Tim,

Indeed, the NYA being the hub of youth work in the UK, and i am feeling quite privileged to work here! I am looking forward to engage with this network and add my pennies worth.

Adam