Exploring youth engagement in a digital age

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Delete - The Virtue of Forgetting a Digital Age

Reposted from Tim's Blog … Continue

Added by Tim Davies on November 20, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

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 creating an integrated youth service can make a difference in the outcomes of the workforce. A young person pushed from a police support officer, to a connexions worker, to a housing officer, to a positive activities advisor, push to where else? Who else wan… Continue

Added by Adam Williams on November 10, 2009 at 11:49am — No Comments

Social Media: youth participation in local democracy

Cross posted from Networked Participation

The final report of the 2009 Youth Participation and Social Network Sites action learning set is… Continue

Added by Tim Davies on November 9, 2009 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Survey on ICTs and young people

I'd love help in circulating a survey that The Youth of Today is conducting. We are interested in how young people use information and communication technologies (ICTs). Respondents should be aged 13 to 25 Please click here to access this survey. It should take about 10 minutes to complete. Participation is very important and will influence th… Continue

Added by Mary Abdo on November 4, 2009 at 11:30am — 4 Comments

Local Authority Downloading Restrictions

We have some new restrictions due to come into place within the Local Authority which I have blogged about here Do you have restrictions and do they impact on your work? If so have you managed to solve them? Any support would be appreciated, thanks! Continue

Added by Hilary Mason on November 4, 2009 at 8:26am — 2 Comments

Introduction

Hi All, A brief introduction... I am Ben Fox, Head of Client Services for a design and marketing agency based in Leeds called Purebrand. During the last summer holidays we delivered a hugely succesful campaign aimed at engaging young people in Leeds with cultural activities and opportunities across the city. The campaign, delivered on behalf of Leeds City Council under their 'Breeze' brand has proven hugely successful. The campaign, entitled 'Follow Alex' is the first of its kind in the UK,… Continue

Added by Ben Fox on October 25, 2009 at 8:47pm — 1 Comment

New course in Social Media and youth work

Using online social media to engage & promote participation with young people (a practical one day course) 4th December 2009 Venue: Stratford E15 There are positive and negative aspects to social media – but whatever our views - young people are in those social media spaces and we as youth practitioners need to understand this online environment. Social media are part of young people’s everyday lives (Facebook, messenger, bebo etc). As practitioners, and managers of practit… Continue

Added by Tony Cisse on October 15, 2009 at 1:25pm — No Comments

We Need Young People - a website what I built (http://www.wnyp.org)

Hello, This is the result of an idea I've been mulling over for a while. There are loads of opportunities for young people to get involved - from consultations, media requests, competitions, debates, surveys etc. The sort of thing that involve winning an iPod. Anyway, these get emailed around various networks; but wouldn't it be a good idea if we collected them in one central place and then people could distribute them as and how they like. And that's what… Continue

Added by Olly Benson on October 6, 2009 at 10:30pm — 3 Comments

How to gain permission/clearance to use social media within your practice?

Gaining permission to utilising social media to engage with young people online can be a challenge as ‘some’ organisations and managers are resistant due to lack of knowledge or experience of social media. Also as it’s such a new methodology to engage with young people funds may have not been allocated in current annual budgets to invest in exploring the potential and p… Continue

Added by Katie Bacon on October 5, 2009 at 1:44pm — No Comments

Chain Reaction 2009 - connect collaborate commit

Chain Reaction 2009 will take place on Thursday 12 November 2009 in London’s Canary Wharf Why are we bringing people together this year? In 2009 we reacted to a crisis. Now is our chance to move on, making new ideas for social change real. New ideas to build stronger economies and stronger communities across the UK. These Chain Reactions will start with you, on November 12th. They will involve young people government, business, charity, and ordinary people. Our speakers have a… Continue

Added by Laura Hyde on September 26, 2009 at 11:52am — 1 Comment

Beyond Twitter: Young people and youth work in a digital age

We had a great day yesterday at Glyndwr University for the Beyond Twitter: Young people and youth work in a digital age conference. A morning of ideas & input: The morning of presentations started with an overview of the big picture of Digital Britain from Simon Stewart, who also previewed the new resource sharing site he has been developing,… Continue

Added by Tim Davies on September 25, 2009 at 9:35am — No Comments

Social Media Youth Work Policies

A theme that returned at the 'Youth Work in a Digital Age' conference today was the need for policies that support use of digital tools in youth work. What is out there already? Do we need explicit digital youth work policies? Or are the key issues already covered by the national guidance for youth workers - such that we just need to interpret existing practice? The policy tension I'm often asked by youth workers about whether there is, or could be, a national policy on digital youth wo… Continue

Added by Tim Davies on September 25, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Could you write on Youth Culture and Net Culture: Online Social Practices

I've just had an e-mail drop into my inbox with a call for proposals for chapters in an upcoming book on 'Youth Culture and Net Culture: Online Social Practices'. The brief for the book suggests that chapters might cover issues including: # Adults' reactions towards young people's Internet use # Youth culture in a historic perspective # What young people are doing online; description and problematisation # Abusive practices; cyber bullying and online harassment # Online sexual predators and th… Continue

Added by Tim Davies on September 20, 2009 at 9:52am — 3 Comments

What social workers (and youth workers) need to understand about youth engagement in the network society

Up at the Connected Practice symposium in Glasgow on Monday danah boyd, US based researcher of young people's online networking - shared her insights into young people's online behaviour, along with some critical questions for youth workers and social workers into how we respond to the increase in young people's self-disclosure of information on the web. I highly recommend taking the time to listen to the audio below - and I know… Continue

Added by Tim Davies on September 16, 2009 at 5:04pm — No Comments

Have you heard about interactive annotations?

Annotations Man, & How to use YouTube annotations are many user-created tutorials about annotations, you would have learned that interactive video annotations are a set of simple tools that enable you to add text and hyperlinks directly onto your youtube videos. There are so many creative ways this tool could be used within a youth work setting wit… Continue

Added by Katie Bacon on September 16, 2009 at 2:31pm — No Comments

New community for Generation Y / 'Millennials'

Hi all, Thanks for having me! This seems like a great site that will help me learn how to communicate to the young professional communities. There's another Ning site I'm promoting aimed at gaining views, experiences and advice frm Generation Y - MillennialsOnline.com It’s a community where people born between 1977 and 1991 can offer CV advice, tips on surviving your first job and discussions on starting your own business. On top of… Continue

Added by Peter Hoffer on September 14, 2009 at 3:58pm — No Comments

The Voicebot takes youth views to Parliament

The Voicebot is primed and ready to receive messages from young people about what they care about.

The Voicebot is an industrial writing robot which is connected to the internet, it writes out whatever messages you send to it. In October The Voicebot and all of its messages will be installed in Houses of Par… Continue

Added by CharlotteEmilyM on September 14, 2009 at 11:04am — 3 Comments

#DYW Twittering, NewsSharing & more with Ning Applications

This week Ning (the platform this website runs on) has started letting Networks add a small number of Open Social applications direct to the network itself (previously users could add them to their own pages...). So - to explore the possibilities I've added two applications to Youth Work Online. The first,… Continue

Added by Tim Davies on September 13, 2009 at 6:41pm — No Comments

Working with digital media over the summer

Wow! What a busy summer 2009 has been! For a few glimpses of the digital media work we have been involved in over the summer have a look here. Looking forward to learning and developing more in this area. Continue

Added by Hilary Mason on September 9, 2009 at 9:38am — No Comments

Buying Bradford Connexions - Online Engagement

Hey All I thought some of you might be interested in a project I'm working on to get young people's input into the commissioning of a new Connexions service in Bradford. We're making use of an online consultation website with Facebook Connect integration, offline consultation toolkit, Twitter account and Facebo… Continue

Added by Tim Davies on August 26, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments