Youth Work Online

Exploring youth engagement in a digital age

Exploring how youth work and informal education professionals can support young people in a digital world.

Members

  • Tash
  • Charlie Bluglass
  • Steve Humphries
  • Roy Smith
  • DK
  • Jon Jolly
  • nicky brown
  • Denise Drake
  • Lynne Jones
  • Lukestarr
  • Katie Bacon
  • Joanne Jopling
  • JOB ORINA
  • Hilary Mason
  • Deni Riach
  • Andy Appleyard

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I agree. I've used both groups and fan pages and I think I prefer fan pages. Recently Facebook has let you name your fan page with a /fanpagename but only if you have 1000 'fans'. Just an FYI
Tim Davies left a comment for Steve MiltonJune 29
Hi Tony, Thanks for the feedback and for posting the guidelines here - I'm sure they will come in handy for many people. When I've got some time, I'll go through them properly and see how they might work for our organisation. Again, thanks for s...
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Event for Careers advisers organised by LECP and The Guardian
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ade and Tony Cisse are now friendsJune 25
Sounds good I would be up for contributing to this too!
Tony Cisse added 2 blog postsJune 25
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Andy Hillier added a blog postJune 24
We have a really good response to CYP Now's weekend working survey from local authority youth workers but not a great reponse from the voluntary setcor. If you'd like to take part, the forms can be found here: Youth worker survey http://www.zoom...
Jon, I think the issue you raise here about professional boundaries is very important. In my view an online engagement with young people should respect exactly the same boundaries as would apply in face to face practice. It may be useful to look ...
Hi all, Lets discuss this further at the unconference, we can run a session on this. We (at LECP) have the infrastructure to deliver, and have discussed this idea with Tim. It would be great to meet up with any others interested (or who might wan...
Tony Cisse left a comment for Rob ElkinsJune 22

From the YWSN Project Blog

Online interventions can change online behaviour

One of our suggestions in the Youth Work and Social Networking research was that youth workers who find young people to have risky or 'unsuitable' information on their Social Network Site profiles, or finding profiles where the privacy settings have...

Opportunity Links: research presentation

I recently presented the findings of the Youth Work and Social Networking research at a conference organised by Opportunity Links. The presentation was videoed and at 20 minutes is probably the best brief overview of the research available to watch...

danah boyd on 'online street workers'

danah boyd, whose work leads the field when it comes to understanding young people's interaction with and experiences of Social Network Sites has just shared on her blog an exploration of the Lori Drew online bullying case in the US...

Voices from practice: how to get started with SNS in youth work...

Much of the learning for the Youth Work and Social Networking project cam from the fantastic work going on in Devon to pioneer and explore new approaches to online engagement with young people, driven forward by the brilliant Katie Bacon....

WiseKids Webcast: youth work and social networking workshop

Cross posted from Tim's Blog If you prefer listening to a presentation over reading a report (PDF) - then you can catch some of the key learning from the Youth Work and Social Networking project in this video from Tim...

Events

 

Connected Generation unConference

Connected Generation 2009 - the unConference

The next unConference face-to-face gathering for members of this network (and anyone else interested in youth engagement in a digital age) will be on the 11th July 2009 in central London.

Booking is now full. If you are registered to take part - please do suggest possible session topics in the forum.

Youth Work Online is an evolving network of practitioners sharing their learning, their questions, their visions and their ideas about the future of youth work and the web.

Members come from a wide variety of backgrounds - and are brought together by a shared interest in using technology in positive ways to support young people's positive personal and social development.

This is an open network - and new members are welcome to join in and take part.

Blog Posts

Tony Cisse

Access to free or heavily discounted training

Posted by Tony Cisse on 25 June 2009 at 12:27pm

Andy Hillier

Weekend working survey flying

Posted by Andy Hillier on 24 June 2009 at 11:30am

Tony Cisse

Nominet Trust

Posted by Tony Cisse on 23 June 2009 at 10:27am

Tash

New self-harm posters available from YouthNet

Posted by Tash on 10 June 2009 at 5:22pm

Chris Cook

WoW in Schools!

Posted by Chris Cook on 8 June 2009 at 9:44pm

Forum

Tim Davies

Facebook Fan Pages 3 Replies

Started by Tim Davies in Open discussion. Last reply by Mark Schreiber 2 Jul.

Tim Davies

Youth Work Online: identifying the training needs 11 Replies

Started by Tim Davies in Youth Work and Social Networking. Last reply by Tony Cisse 22 Jun.

 
 

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