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Towards Youth Work 2.0

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Weaving safe social networking messages into other sessions

Not all sessions that address online social networking need to be about online social networking. For example, you could weave key learning about online social networking into: Getting photo consent Recognising that at many events young people will take and...

Using Social Network Sites for participation: young people from Devon tell us how

How can Social Network Sites support young people's participation in decision making? What should youth services seeking to engage young people online be thinking about? What are the right 'norms', 'rules' and 'procedures' for keeping young people and staff safe...

Exploring Bebo - a getting started guide

Last week Pete and I were in Rotherham to deliver a follow up training session on Social Network Sites to the youth service. Unlike last time we were using an IT suite which didn't block access to Social Network...

Tapping into the two hours a night

Many young people are spending upwards of two hours a night on Social Network Sites like MySpace and Bebo. A lot of that time will be spend interacting with friends that they see everday - but some will also...

MySpace Best Practices for Nonprofit Organisations

Thanks to a post over on the Fairsay e-campaigning mailing list I've just discovered these fantastic pages on MySpace, Facebook and YouTube best-practice for non-profit organisations. The tips, which range of how to lay-out your page, through to how...

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UK Youth Online - The unConference - Saturday 27th September 2008

Come and join all of these people on Saturday 27th September, from 10am till 5pm in central London at the DIUS offices (map) to discuss, demo and explore what the latest online developments mean for work with young people.

The UK Youth Online unconference is a free co-created event for anyone with an interest in how technology impacts upon, or can be used in, work with under 18s. The event will be based around four themes:

Online safety and opportunity - keeping young people safe online, and balancing safety with opportunity.	Youth participation online - getting young people involved in decision making through online tools and environments.
Promoting services and messages to young people - online marketing and communication with young people.	Projects: youth work 2.0 - looking at projects and approaches to work with young people that make use of online technologies.

Everyone attending UK Youth Online is invited to suggest sessions under (or outside of) these themes - and the final agenda for presentations, discussions and demonstrations will be decided upon on the day using participative methods.

Register for your free place here.
Suggest and discuss session ideas here.

Get in touch if you could help with the organization, or are interested in sponsoring the event to help us keep it free.

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UK Youth Online Live - 27th September 2008

The UK Youth Online unconference date is now confirmed. More news next week - but if you want to join us for a day of discussion, networking and general interesting dialog about the social web and it's impact on the future of work with young people - then head over here to register.

Posted by Tim Davies on 5th August 2008 at 11:54pm — 3 Comments (Add)

Updated: reporting back from youth work 2.0 at 2gether08

Thank you to everyone who came to the ‘Towards an Innovation Lab for Youth Work 2.0’ session at 2gether08, to those who gave me really useful feedback or offered kind comments following my pitch in the final session, and to all those who I’ve spent far t… Continue

Posted by Tim Davies on 2nd July 2008 at 5:00pm — 2 Comments (Add)

RSS from the Youth Work Web

What information can the connected youth worker get to? Prompted by a comment by Steven over in the forum exploring how we answer the question from other's in youth work 'what are people blogging about?' I decided to put together a list of all the Youth Work related blogs I'm subscribed to. You can find that list, along the the… Continue

Posted by Tim Davies on 26th June 2008 at 5:00pm — 4 Comments (Add)

Come 2gether to shape Youth Work 2.0 (2nd/3rd July)

I've just had word from Steve Moore of the 2gether festival that my session pitch for a workshop on 'Youth Work 2.0' has made it through. That means we've got 80 minutes to fill with discussion, exploration and inspiration abo… Continue

Posted by Tim Davies on 20th June 2008 at 11:00am — 2 Comments (Add)

Four steps to virtual youth work

Mike has been building on the conversation about YouthWork 2.0 over on the Late Breakfast Society blog. He has suggested four challenges/steps for developing a virtual youth project: * Identifying the potential for transferable skills * Providing opportunities for relationship building * Potential for development & progressive pathways * Pee… Continue

Posted by Tim Davies on 11th June 2008 at 9:41pm — No Comments (Add)