Tony Cisse's Blog (6)

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

Twitter is not for teens, Morgan Stanley told by 15-year-old expert Report on young people's media habits written for investment bank by teenage intern causes huge interest in the City guardian.co.uk, Monday 13 July 2009 11.08 BST Traditional media, including watching television, is losing ground to new media, according to Matthew Robson's report. A research note written by a 15-year-old Morgan Stanley intern that described his friends' media habits has generated a flurry of interest… Continue

I will feedback, from my notes from the session but if I have forgotton anything of overlooked an important issue please add your comment. I explained my interest in facilitating this workshop. LECP is a training provider for the 'Young People's' Sector and is interested in either putting on , collaborating with others and/or publicising relvant training around the use of digital social media and work with young people. A key issue which was raised was the skills gap between what the technolog… Continue

The "V' programme (volunteering for young people) has a twitter site which allows followers and friend updates of volunteering opportunites for young people aged 16-25: http://twitter.com/vteamCL Continue

As a training provider for people working with Young People it is a source of frustration that many are exluded from our training courses due to lack of training budgets. This is particularly so for smaller voluntary sector organisations. Unfortunately as an unfunded, not-for-profit (3rd sector) organisation we are rarely funded to to provide free or subsidized training. With commissioning, the credit crunch and potential public funding cuts on the horizon this is unlikely to improve in the sho… Continue

This might be of interest for those looking for funding for online projects The Nominet Trust (http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/) The say about themselves: "We are a charity that provides funding to innovative projects which strive to improve and encourage the safe use of the Internet for educational, inclusion and other charitable purposes. We will give grants to organisations that can convince us that their innovative IT-related projects can make a positive difference to the groups… Continue