Exploring youth engagement in a digital age

Sharing content between youth websites

There must be 100s of local authority / connexions / youth service / charity websites aimed at young people - often seeking to provide Information, Advice and Guidance alongside local news, information about places to go and things to do, and young people-created content.

Is there a space for / need for a place where sites can share useful units of content (e.g. videos / where-to-find-out-more widgets and the like?)

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Dennis on June 16, 2008 at 4:31pm: You know, a lot of these things -- classic examples might be, what, an alcohol unit counter or an animated condom demonstration? Well, they've already been done, on other websites, so I link promiscuously to the ones I think are good. It might be nice to have them embeddable within my pages, mind -- there's a bit of that going on now, like the GI Johnny stuff, but it's a pretty recent development (and mostly in the sexual education zone).; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alex Dowding on June 17, 2008 at 1:42pm: How about a YouthTube/YoungTube for young people-created content? Any thoughts?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tim Davies on June 17, 2008 at 3:25pm: Would be an interesting one.

I've always just encouraged services to use the tools that are out there (e.g. the real YouTube) and to tag content / bring it together... but there may be a case for a specific 'YouthTube'.

With the YouTube api, or white label video services it would be relatively easy to establish I would guess (technically that is, marketting might be more of a challenge...); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Steven Flower on June 24, 2008 at 5:04pm: Hi

Colleagues of mine at Greater Manchester Connexions (a couple of years ago at least) tried a youth type video site - which was great, but the issue is that nobody can easily upload more videos. Hence the centralised model didnt quite work.

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Permalink Reply by Olly Benson on June 27, 2008 at 10:13am: YouthTube? Isn't that what chargetv.co.uk is meant to be.

Whether it is or not is another matter.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by mas on June 17, 2008 at 4:17pm: or maybe some sort of 'youth work search engine'?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Steven Flower on June 24, 2008 at 5:43pm: Hi Mike

I've been looking recently at the trend in People Powered Search Engines - which could present some possibilities in this field

I've just posted a blog about it on Plings, so would be grateful if you could take a look - but happy to continue conversation here

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Permalink Reply by mas on June 25, 2008 at 11:13am: Thats very interesting & have added to my 'play around with' todo list! Plings looks like a good possibility for the sharing of relevant info too. I had been thinking of setting something up to pool all the latest youth blog posts (we also talked about doing something similar for the now redundant 'oneyouthworkblogger' campaign) - one of the reasons I hadn't got round to it though was that I read there may be copyright issues although maybe this is easily got round by seeking permission in advance and making it clear copyright is owned by the authors etc. ?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Steven Flower on June 26, 2008 at 4:22pm: Hi Mike

Regarding the copyright issue in terms of aggregation. I am not sure where this would derive from, although I am no legal eagle.

I would guess that the there is an issue (and a term of licence in some RSS feeds) that you cant make a commercial return out of a feed use. Probably around someone plonking a load of feeds onto a page and generating google ads out of them, but lets not go there for now!

One way to pool all the latest youth work posts would be to use something like technorati to find and mark as favourites the relevant blog sites, and then feed the RSS out into Google Reader or through Yahoo Pipes. The result could be a stream of posts that are relevant for people to engage with.

I appreciate that this is a rather techno-centric approach to the question I hear , which is "what are people blogging about?" It was (and still is, and always will be!) on our 2do list to look at this, as getting more people engaged in these discussions and conversations is the most important aspect.

Just noticed that Tim has posted a long (and probably more coherant response that this) response to my blog, so best get over there and reply...

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Permalink Reply by Tim Davies on June 26, 2008 at 5:37pm: Erm, I'm not sure my reply on your blog falls in the category of coherent Steven.

In other things though - I've pulled together a list of all the youth work related RSS feeds I'm subscribed to - and have dropped them into a Grazr widget here.

What am I missing? What other blogs are out there?

Can be pull together a comprehensive list...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Hilary Mason on November 4, 2009 at 7:48am: How about Jon Jollys blog? I don't seem to see it here at all. Great Gadget though and I'll need to remember that it's here!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by mas on June 26, 2008 at 10:31pm: Is there anything anyones come across that allows for pulling in rss feeds but also posting replies/comments? I'm guessing not because of issues of overcoming spam filters etc. Just thinking it would be handy to have a central place to view blogs & send in replies etc. as (hopefully_ youth work blogging grows - maybe I'm just being a bit too lazy though!

Out of interest has anyone tried feedly? - think its for firefox only but I'm finding its quite a nice way for reading through some of the feeds I usually skip over.; ▶ Reply to This