Youth Work Online - Exploring youth engagement in a digital age

Exploring youth engagement in a digital age

Community for youth workers & other youth professionals exploring digital dimensions of their work. Sponsored by Practical Participation.

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Duncan Hodgson commented on Olly Benson's blog post 'We Need Young People - a website what I built (http://www.wnyp.org)'

Hi Olly We are currently in the process of redesigning www.rubothered.co.uk which we are planning to launch in December and this is something that we are keen to include. Is there some kind of API mailing list you can put me on to let me know abo...

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Elena Vilarova, Elena Dzartovska, Aldo Michael Smith and 1 more joined Youth Work Online

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Vanessa Griffin and Aldo Michael Smith are now friends

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Aldo Michael Smith updated their profile

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Aldo Michael Smith joined Roy Smith's group

Federation for detached youth work

The federation for detached youth work exists to support, promote and develop detached youth work...through effective communication, advocacy, training, advice and information.

on Thursday

Aldo Michael Smith joined Dave Briggs's group

Social Media Surgery

The online version of the unconference place for advice and guidance on using social media to engage with young people. NOT a clinic!

on Thursday

Aldo Michael Smith joined Steven Flower's group

Promoting Positive Activities

Interested in the PPA agenda? Want to get beyond websites and leaflets? Or - want a website and a leaflet?? Plings is about exploring this issue and finding creative, practical and appropriate ways to collect, collate and distribute.

on Thursday

Tim Davies replied to Andy Appleyard's discussion 'Website builder ???'

Hey Andy One route that can by really easy is to use Wordpress, the blogging platform, to create a website. You can create static pages of content, and use the 'blog' feature to post news updates regularly - and you can use other free tools so t...

on Thursday

Kevin O'Sullivan replied to Kevin O'Sullivan's discussion 'A community web site built by young people'

Hi Andy It took time and the help of a good photographer volunteer but all the Google stuff is free and the Google Sites forum has suggestions for creating / editing images with things like GIMP which is also free plus various other things e,g, a...

on Thursday

Andy Appleyard replied to Kevin O'Sullivan's discussion 'A community web site built by young people'

Hi Kevin, Was your website expensive to put together ? I have a group of young people that attend the youth club who are wanting to set one up for the club / community. Thanks, Andy

on Wednesday

Vanessa Griffin Wish to find out more about working with young people through digital technologies particularly with regards to participation

on Wednesday

Vanessa Griffin and Jennie Hammett joined Youth Work Online

on Wednesday

Katie Bacon commented on Hilary Mason's blog post 'Local Authority Downloading Restrictions'

Hi Hilary, I'm thinking 'stuck between a rock and a hard place' - It's very frustrating when decisions are made with wide repercussions and possibly little or no consultations/dialogue with the various departments/front line practitioners. Cor he...

on Wednesday

Adam Williams added a blog post

My response to the Young People's Workforce Reform Programme

My response to the Young People’s Workforce Reform Programme. The conference started with a hard-hitting drama demonstrating the individual and emotional challenges of children and young people, and a sharp realisation on how the journey in creat...

on Tuesday

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Welcome to Youth Work Online

The network for exploring youth engagement in a digital age.

This is a space where you can:

Share your questions about the impact of digital technologies on work with young people; and about the policy or practice of digital youth work
Update colleagues about new developments and share your latest work.
Join in in-depth discussions about working with young people and new technologies.
Find out about face-to-face events and activities.

Whether you are looking at youth outreach on social network sites; policies for digital youth engagement; practical tips on e-safety; or ideas on the latest or best digital tools to use - we invite you to join and participate in the network.