There’s a great conversation happening over at UK Youth Online about practical steps for youth workers to take while interacting with young people online.
Most people are taking the view that to ensure accountability and transparency, workers should have a different profile or login for work and personal.
I’m interested in this debate as I currently [...]
I’ve been asked a few times recently why my online persona is called bobweasel. My Flickr, Twitter, Last.fm, del.icio.us, google and most other social sites are under registered under the weasel name.
I created my alter-ego as a joke after a friend started using the name ‘alvincacti’ online. We ribbed him mercilessly and made up [...]
Following on from my last post about the use of new technology in youth work, you might be interested in using Google’s updated Trends feature.
Google Trends can be used to see how popular certain search terms are across geographic regions, cities, and languages.
Working just like it’s standard search engine, Trends gives you visual data to [...]
There’s lot of talk at the moment about the future of youth work. Marko’s been blogging extracts from his new book ‘Youth Ministry 3.0…‘ looking at how we’re missing the mark in [US] youth ministry, and what needs to change in order to more truly live into our calling as youth workers.
Over this side of [...]
At Ignite (our group for 11-14 year olds), we run both a Thursday night social and small groups at the weekend. The Thursday is an open session where we run crazy activities and have around 50 young people turn up. The small groups are for those who want to take an extra step and learn [...]
photo credit: Demi-Brooke | photojournal
Posts have been pretty sporadic here recently which kind of reflects my state of mind at the moment. What with Kirsty’s morning sickness, exams this week, trying to find a new car, and a whole shed load of summer activities coming up, I feel a little unfocused.
I plan to have [...]
OK, most of our family and friends know now so it’s time to formally tell the World Wide Web. After almost eight years of marriage, Kirsty and I are expecting our first child! The Jolly Junior is due mid January 2009 and mummy and daddy are very excited!
So there you go. Don’t say I never [...]
The latest issue of Youth Work Now came out today and my second ‘From The Frontline’ opinion piece is printed on page 9. I wrote it as a reaction to the government sponsored MyPlace initiative:
The government’s MyPlace initiative will provide £190m of capital funding to help create new youth facilities across England. For those [...]
