Exploring youth engagement in a digital age

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FREE Youth Work Training

Hello I hope all is well in your world. I had the crazy idea of giving away some of best training for FREE. Lets just say it was a combination of being frustrated with "selling" courses in a slow, rubbishy, small scale, a bit of fear abo

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Added by Bob Singha on September 2, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Ofcom report highlights 'multi-tasking media users'

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Added by Katie Bacon on August 19, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Please sign the For Youth's Sake online pledge

Dear all, CYP Now has launched a campaign to highlight the importance of providing services for young people.

We're trying to get as many young people, parents and youth workers as possible to sign our online pledge.

It would be great to get the Youth Work Online community behind the For Youth Sake's campaign as it will give us more influence when lobbying decision makers.

The campaign pledge can be signed here:

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Added by Andy Hillier on August 11, 2010 at 4:14pm — No Comments

Can Gaming Make a Better World?

This video (http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html

) was brought to my attention a short while ago. It talks a

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Added by Kevin O'Sullivan on August 11, 2010 at 11:17am — No Comments

Youth Call for Multimedia

Adobe Youth Voices | 01SJ is instituting a free open call for screen-based media by youths aged 12-18 under the theme “Activate an Idea / Deactivate a Problem.” Participants are asked to produce video or multimedia that addresses a social issue. Entries are due August 23^rd, 2010. Top finalists in the juried competition will be awarded up to $500 in prize money. Please visit our website, or email me at… Continue

Added by david sandoval on July 22, 2010 at 2:39am — No Comments

Funding Opportunity - "Global Youth Work"

Hi all,

I am relatively new to this network but I have an opportunity for you to receive funding for work here in the UK and Ireland that has a global dimension. I'm not sure if this should be a blog post but perhaps an admin can move it to the right place if I've made a newbie error :)

Through our Global Youth Work in Action funding we have a total of £36,000 to give to any youth work organisation doing informal education with young people primar

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Added by Mike O'Donovan on June 24, 2010 at 10:35am — 6 Comments

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.

Help recruit

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Added by Tim Davies on June 23, 2010 at 7:52pm — No Comments

Stumbling at the First Hurdle

It appears alas that we have already hit a stumbling block on the road to safe and effective use of social media within our services. Not surprisingly this stumbling block could be seen as falling into one or both of two common categories, child protection/safeguarding or money. Having discussed some of the documents I recently uploaded at the bimonthly safeguarding panel it appears th

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Added by Vanessa Griffin on June 15, 2010 at 2:00pm — 4 Comments

Developing Apps for Charity and Youth Work

(Courtesy of Gonzalo Baeza Hernandez)

I’m intrigued by the possibility of developing apps for working with… Continue

Added by Hilary Mason on June 14, 2010 at 11:26am — No Comments

Group Tweet

I have just been introduced to group tweet. This service allows you to create a group communication hub using normal twitter accounts. This means that you can now send private messages to multiple users allowing for quick, easy and direct communication within teams or groups so everyone is up to date instantly.

To do this you

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Added by Vanessa Griffin on June 8, 2010 at 5:10pm — No Comments

Feedback from the 2 Day OCN accredited Social Media Course

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Added by Katie Bacon on May 24, 2010 at 3:06pm — 1 Comment

Are you an Openbook?

Are you an openbook? Most of us would like to think that whilst we are open we have boundaries and don't want to share our private lives with the entire world. Hopefully we counsel the young people we work with to think before they share the intimate details of their lives with the online world.

Some of them may be shocked that the comments, wall posts and status updates they share over popular SNS Facebook are not as private as they thought. I implo

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Added by Vanessa Griffin on May 21, 2010 at 11:26am — No Comments

Connected Generation 2010 notes

Thanks to Tim, Katie and the rest of the organisers of the Connected Generation conference 2010. It was a brilliant day in terms of learning and support.

2010 is my first year in attendance and as the only youth librarian present I was delighted to see that others were interested in discussing the relevance of libraries in the open space session. I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about our HeadSpace project which aims

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Added by Emma Sherriff on May 20, 2010 at 7:48am — No Comments

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. You can fin… Continue

Added by Tim Davies on May 18, 2010 at 2:43pm — No Comments

Some of my thoughts from the Connected Generation Conference.....

....can be found here. Thanks to everyone, particularly Tim and Katie for such a thought provoking day.
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Added by Hilary Mason on May 13, 2010 at 9:16pm — No Comments

Making a Start on Policies

We have started working on some policies and also a request to create a social networking presence. We feel it is important to establish that projects understand what they are trying to acheive by setting up a profile or group; how they will moderate this and tackle any safety issues that arise. It has also been noticed that some of the groups run by projects that are required to use SNS by funders have very little in the way of participation from service users on their pages.

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Added by Vanessa Griffin on May 12, 2010 at 9:30am — 3 Comments

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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Added by Tim Davies on May 11, 2010 at 11:19am — 7 Comments

Policy or Guideline to support workers avoiding treatment discussions online

Hi all, I'm providing consulting services with a large children's mental health agency in Toronto, Ontario. They hired me to help them develop[ their online communication strategies, guidelines, policies, procedures and tools. They want to expand how they engage youth they serve online and will be creating a "for youth, by youth" web site in which youth will offer supports and guidance for youth experiencing mental illness issues and challenges. There is a strong treatment ethos and practice w… Continue

Added by Brent MacKinnon on May 5, 2010 at 12:15pm — No Comments

Journey into Online Youth Participation

In the beginning some of our projects were utilising Facebook and myspace etc to keep in contact with children and young people connected to that project however this was uncontrolled and poorly managed or understood and unsurprisingly this led to problems. Thus all such activity was banned until proper procedures,

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Added by Vanessa Griffin on May 3, 2010 at 2:24pm — 5 Comments

Detached placements for trainee youth workers

Please visit the attached discussion on the detached youth work ning if you are interested a trainee looking for a detached youth work placement: LINK

Roy

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Added by Roy Smith on April 28, 2010 at 10:56am — No Comments