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 [...]
Archive - June, 2008
What’s With The Weasel?
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 [...]
Using Online Trends For Youth Work
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 [...]
Towards Youth Work 2.0
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 [...]
Who Can Find Jesus?
Unfocused
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 [...]
Who’s The Daddy?
No space for workers in MyPlace initiative
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 [...]
