For the past few weeks, I had been planning a series of posts about the various online Social Media tools explaining what they were and how they could potentially be used within youth work. However, I’ve realised that rather than re-invent the wheel, I should just point out the excellent One Page Guides written by [...]
I know that the last few posts have been about the developments at UKYouthOnline and I don’t want to keep banging on about the same thing, but a great video has been posted on the site by Katie Bacon where a centre-based youth worker explains the journey they have been on in using Bebo to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I was reading Dave Johnson’s post about what rss feeds he subscribes to and it got me thinking it would be good to recommend a few of the blogs that I read too.
I subscribe to hundreds of different feeds from around the web ranging from youth ministry and human interest through to technology and research. [...]
