Media Trust recently commissioned a piece of research to explore how media is used as a tool to engage 13-25 year olds, improve their lives and get their voices heard.

The research looks at youth media outside formal education including both skills-based accredited training and non-accredited media projects. Based on consultation with youth media organisations and feedback from focus groups made up of young people, the research found that…

Weaving volunteer world wide web Training course

16-22 September 2012 | Crimea, Ukraine

The project aims to address usage of internet tools by youth and voluntary service organizations, in particular focusing on: -social media -how to make efficient and attractive NGO web-site -online project management tools for international cooperation

The idea of the seminar is…

Have you seen search results on Google like the ones below recently? 

If you're signed in, and you've told Google about your social network, chances are you might start seeing these sorts of personalised results - …

On Saturday 28^th April as part of the Online Youth Outreach team www.onlineyouthoutreach.co.uk Katie Bacon and I (@tashaturb) delivered the Introduction to Social Media course to the Lewisham Youth AID team http://www.youthaid.org.uk/ as part of a Lewisham Service Providers Forum funded package of social media training, strategy and consultancy.    …

– find out how you can make the most of digital fundraising and social media, seminar from NCVO. Free http://ncvodigitalandsocialmedia.eventbrite.com/?ebtv=C&ebtv=C&ebtv=C

Young People invited to join the Reach Youth Board

– to help tackle homophobic, sexist and cyberbullying. UK Youth is working in partnership with EACH (Educational Action Challenging Homophobia) to drawing together the voices of young people and create resources for both schools and informal youth settings to help them challenge the increasingly widespread problem of cyberhomophobia and homophobic…

　13^th June 2012

Venue:　　Stratford

There are positive and negative aspects to social media – but whatever our views - young people are in those social media spaces and we as youth practitioners need to understand this online environment.…

Y Care International (YCI) is recruiting a Global Youth Work Co-ordinator to manage our Global Youth Work in Action project, funded by the Department for International Development. We seek an individual with strong experience in project management who is able to support the design and fundraising of new projects. You must be comfortable working alongside a wide range of stakeholders including young people, youth workers and senior managers.

This is a great opportunity for someone to…

Hi - does anyone happen to have a 'user policy' for staff making use of iPads, or other tablets? We've just invested in one for delivery, and although I think our normal IT policy will cover most things, I do think that something about downloading apps needs to be added. Before I spend too long thinking about it I wonder if anyone has anything in place so far..or might the forum suggest things I should consider for managing any potential hazards that…

The Regional Youth Work Unit – North East has been exploring a variety of ways in which social media and emerging digital technology can support the development of youth work and the empowerment of the young people of our region.

In July The Unit was successful in gaining funding from the Policy and Representation Partnership to support our new Net Assets Project. Net Assets will support practitioners across the…

In November 2011, Derwentwater Youth Hostel in the Lake District was delighted to welcome 13 students aged 13-18 from the Cumbrian community project, Art Locates Me.  Art Locates Me (ALM) is a digital arts and media initiative, started by Connexions Cumbria to produce and distribute work made by young people from across Cumbria.  As part of their ‘Digital Natives’ project, the young people created a spectacular display which was projected on the front of the 220 year old Georgian mansion…

I'm working on a crowd-sourced research project for Nominet Trust to explore how digital technologies can support young people to engage socially and economically with their communities - and I need your help.

• Next Thursday (12th April) we've got a round-table event in London to explore key messages on using digital technology to engage young people. Drop me a line if you want an…

Just spotted this post on Helen Reynolds blog about using Facebook for communicating with young people.

It's an example from Monmouthshire, where Youthworker Dan Davies is engaging with over 500 young people through Facebook.

Take a look...

Since I started out as a children’s advocate in 2002 I’ve been searching for effective ways of involving children & young people in service development. Not ways where young people are just consulted with, nor where they lead the process and make the decisions, but where…

Hi All,

I have designed a questionnaire to be answered by youth workers and other youth professionals currently working with young people in the pursuit of discovering more about how youth workers are connecting with young people using Facebook. The answers will be considered as part of an undergraduate dissertation I am currently undertaking at the University…

– an in-depth study led by Beatbullying on the state of cyberbullying amongst children, young people and teachers in the UK. It reveals that cyberbullying, as a weapon of choice amongst the nation's youth, is showing no signs of dissipating, with 350,222 children – or 1 in 13 – experiencing persistent and intentional cyberbullying, with just under a quarter (23%) reporting that the bullying lasted for a year or more, and two in five (40%) said that it lasted for…

23^rd February 2012

10.00 am – 1.30pm

Venue: 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…

Why not contribute to this debate on the very interesting blog Youthwork Ethics, a blog site where youth workers can debate ethical issues

http://youthworkethics.blogspot.com/2010/10/facebook.html#more

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…