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Comment by Kieran Watson on April 19, 2009 at 10:32am

As a community project we have an autonomous role towards developing our provision and service ( under the umbrella of Oxfordshire/National Voluntary Youth Service). Our approach to this project would be focus on initiating fundraising and develop a proposal that involves contracting a service provider to manage the project, mentoring staff, volunteers and young people to develop training, skills and experience.
This project reflects a lack of information and resources to tackle low levels of engagement, participation and empowerment to promote youth opportunity, positive activities and build a better community profile with a Positive Images Campaign.

Comment by mas on April 17, 2009 at 4:51pm

Hi Kieran - no simple answer to that as depends on things like purpose, functionality, audience and how willing/capable people are at running it plus whatever policies and access issues you may have with your employer.

Wordpress is popular at the mo and very flexible so might be worth setting up your own space on their to play around with and see if something like that would work for you.

Comment by Kieran Watson on April 17, 2009 at 1:37pm

We have been discussing the possibility of setting up our youth project website. My concerns about suitable packages or setting this up is a hot topic at the moment. What are your views and suggestions?

Comment by mas on April 17, 2009 at 12:09pm

good that you chose a mac :-)

There's quite a few presentations about presentations on slideshare but here's a couple that might be of interest/use:

http://www.slideshare.net/d4mi3n/seven-deadly-sins-of-slideshows
http://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint

Also if you're interested in the outcomes stuff you might find this of interest too:


http://outcomes.digitalyouth.org.uk/

Look forward to seeing/hearing about more of your stuff

Comment by Kieran Watson on April 17, 2009 at 9:37am

With a new computer and a positive attitude to developing youth work online I appreciate your advice and hope that I gain a better understanding quicker. I think that maybe the slideshow doesn't offend Keynote users and its something worth developing into Youth Work practice as a interesting communication tool. It works well with young people to create discussion and engage them, even better, when we go online I hope to promote some ideal skills and experience to profile others response to my youth work interaction by recording the participation 'process' and its 'impact' within the community to measure positive outcomes.

Comment by mas on April 16, 2009 at 10:49pm

For engaging activities this
for positive youth work this
and for an alternative method for hosting slideshows this

Slideshare is useful because it can read any text and notes within your slideshows and present these as accompanying notes which can help with the context issue.

I'm not trying to have a needless dig - the fact is the more understandable something is the more people can benefit from it. I'm keen to encourage as many people as possible to share their ideas etc. online and so far not so many are so its brilliant that you're prepared to put some time to do so, even better if we can learn from each other to do it in ways that others can use/learn from/understand etc. etc.

Comment by Kieran Watson on April 16, 2009 at 10:12pm

Unlike yourself I'm just making use of the stuff that I do and it would be interesting to see what you offer. Can you back up your criticism with some evidence of some positive youth work and engaging face to face activities?

Comment by mas on April 16, 2009 at 9:46pm

thanks for sharing Kieran - honestly not wanting to put a downer on your efforts but maybe ease off on the effects in the future - making keynote look like powerpoint is close to criminal ;-)

It would be useful to have some context too - its hard to try and understand what the films about? Really good to have somebody sharing their efforts online though.