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Thanks for that; your youthworktoolbox website looks useful, particularly the podcasts.
We're looking at going with Mailchimp as it's very user-friendly and very much integrated with social media which is a major plus.
I might…"
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May 2010 Blog Posts (9)
Feedback from the 2 Day OCN accredited Social Media Course
Added by Katie Bacon on May 24, 2010 at 15:06 — 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…
Added by Vanessa Griffin on May 21, 2010 at 11:26 — 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…
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Added by Emma Sherriff on May 20, 2010 at 7:48 — 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 find a lot of insightful analysis over on danah boyds blog here.
However, this post is mainly to point… Continue
Added by Tim Davies on May 18, 2010 at 14:43 — 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.
Added by Hilary Mason on May 13, 2010 at 21:16 — 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.…
ContinueAdded by Vanessa Griffin on May 12, 2010 at 9:30 — 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…
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Added by Tim Davies on May 11, 2010 at 11:19 — 6 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… Continue
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… Continue
Added by Brent MacKinnon on May 5, 2010 at 12:15 — 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…
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uncontrolled and poorly managed or understood and unsurprisingly this
led to problems. Thus all such activity was banned until…
Added by Vanessa Griffin on May 3, 2010 at 14:24 — 5 Comments
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