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Youth Work Online
Exploring youth engagement in a digital age
Next steps for Youth Work Online...
Youth Work Online has been around for a few years now. The Network here now has over 900 members, many more visitors who haven't yet joined, and today we ran our fourth annual open space unConference event.
It's run fairly informally, and has worked well as a non-commercial and shared space for talking digital dimensions of work with young people - and I've been funding the running costs (just the domain name and monthly Ning subscription), with help from Katie Bacon in the last year to moderate and welcome new members. However, from October I'm heading on to projects new, with a PhD in Web Science, and so at today's unConference we talked about how to take Youth Work Online forward to things new. Here's the plan:
- I've used One Click Organisations to set up an 'association' which can take ownership of the network. One Click Orgs provide a formal, but easy-to-run structure, which gives members of the network the choice to be part of a committee that can vote online about how Youth Work Online runs. With One Click Orgs all the votes take place online, so it can be inclusive and accessible - whilst giving wide ownership of the network.
- Once we've got a Youth Work Online association set-up, that association can vote to appoint: A network administrator; Network Hosts and a Resource Librarian (these roles are described below).
- The association will need to either set up it's own bank account with a card to be able to pay the ongoing Ning subscription, or will decide on someone to act as the host for funds. I will provide £200 to cover the upcoming Ning fees, after which members of the association will have to find sponsors etc. if there is will to keep the network running.
- Members of the one click org association can put forward plans for future Youth Work Online projects, unConferences and other activities - and the association can provide a vehicle for people to co-organise these in democratic ways.
This is, of course, experimental and a learning journey. It will need people to volunteer to take on new roles - but none of the roles are onerous.
The key roles mentioned are:
One or more network administrators - people with full control over the online network, and able to deal with funds etc. To be responsible for making sure membership requests are being moderated, and the occasional update newsletter is being sent out.
Network Hosts - perhaps 5 or 6 people who are willing to (a) moderate new member requests; (b) welcome new members; (c) once every few months take responsibility for sending out an update newsletter to let members know about recent posts, resources and discussions on the network.
Resource librarian - one or more people to take responsibility for keeping a 'resource library' section of the network up to date. One of the most requested things at the unConferences is somewhere where policies, reports and resources can be curated. It would be great to have one or two people able to put a few hours a month to keeping a list of resources updated on the site.
There may be other roles like unConference organisers - and the suggestion was already made today of both exploring ideas of European exchanges and unConferencing, and an unConference up North, which the association could provide a support to.
So:
- To become a founder member of the association, drop a comment below before the end of May and I will invite you to join;
- To volunteer for any roles, join the association and we can then vote together to set up the roles;
- All suggestions/comments/questions welcome.
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Comment by Katie Bacon on May 22, 2011 at 17:14 -
Count me in, it would be a pleasure to be part of the team. Be also good to link to the EU digital youth conference in 2012.
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Comment by Joanne Jopling on May 22, 2011 at 17:23 -
Count me in, it will be a pleasure and now Uni has nearly finished I will have more time
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Comment by Duncan Hodgson on May 22, 2011 at 18:43 -
I'm definitely up for being involved (provided I don't swan off to Malta!), especially would like to work on getting a Connected Generation North Edition going at some point in the future.
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Comment by Hilary Mason on May 23, 2011 at 10:27 -
COunt me in - I've just finished Uni and would like to be involved, thanks for putting this all together Tim, I know that it takes quite a lot of time to keep it all running and I think that you've done an awesome job, along with Katie recently, to keep promoting and moving this forward.
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Comment by Natasha Turberville on May 23, 2011 at 22:21 -
Hey, count me in, would definitely like to get involved.
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Comment by David Whewell on May 24, 2011 at 13:09 -
Hi Tim - happy to be involved! Also, happy to talk about possible roles!
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Comment by olawale rasheed on May 24, 2011 at 13:21 -
Thanks.Your proposals are quite good.Being here in Nigeria,I will suggest we introduce a membership subscription of an agreed amount followed with activities such as annual conference as well as introduction of fellowship for senior people interested in youth work online and corporate membership for youth involved businesses and companies.
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Comment by Tim Davies on May 25, 2011 at 10:15
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Fantastic. Everyone who has expressed an interest in getting involved should now have had an invite to One Click Organisations. Olawale, I'll send your invite now.
In a few days I'll call the 'founding vote' which will set up the association.
We will then set up a mailing list to allow us to vote people into roles, and ideas like those Olawale shares below for getting more entrepreneurial, or Duncan's plans for events can be shared and the membership can think about how they want to support and respond to these.
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Comment by olawale rasheed on May 26, 2011 at 18:49
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Great and thanks Davies.Looking forward to the invite.You are doing a great job.And also factor the EU Youth Digital conference 2012 into the plan as suggested by Katie.
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Comment by olawale rasheed on September 1, 2011 at 18:14
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Tim,I was occupied and distracted for sometime.Am back now and trying to catch up I just set up the Nigerian Society for Youth Research,the first in the country and we are commencing research in some areas.I am back and you will be seen more of me.I also intend to popluarise the group in Nigeria.
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