Youth Work and Social Networking
Thank you to everyone who came to the Youth Work and Social Networking session at the Federation for Detached Youth Work conference yesterday - and to everyone who offered feedback on the ideas presented during the plenary slot.
A number of people asked me for the presentations or things to take away from the sessions.
Most of the content exploring in the workshop and presentations can be found in the Final Report of the Youth Work and Social Networking project which you can download here (PDF) . We tried to make the report as practical as possible - so in it you can find:
You can also find a lot of content on the project blog at http://blogs.nya.org.uk/ywsn/ including:
You can also see a video of the plenary session (thanks to Roy) here:
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And you can view the slides from that talk here:
Plus you can find the workshop presentation here:
A number of people asked me for the presentations or things to take away from the sessions.Most of the content exploring in the workshop and presentations can be found in the Final Report of the Youth Work and Social Networking project which you can download here (PDF) . We tried to make the report as practical as possible - so in it you can find:
- An analysis of opportunities and risks from Social Network Sites for young people and youth work
- The Youth Work Perspective on Social Networking - drawing on core values of youth work
- Practical guidance on developing a safety policy, and pointers for staff development and different strategic responses to young people's online social networking
You can also find a lot of content on the project blog at http://blogs.nya.org.uk/ywsn/ including:
- An introduction to Bebo and MySpace.
- A post on using Social Network Sites to listen to what's already going on out there.
And - A lot of other stuff and shared learning
You can also see a video of the plenary session (thanks to Roy) here:
Find more videos like this on Federation for Detached Youth Work
And you can view the slides from that talk here:
Youth Work In A Digital Age
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Plus you can find the workshop presentation here:
Social Networking And Detached Youth Work
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Comment by Tim Davies on November 18, 2008 at 9:19am -
Hey Tony
Cough is getting better. Now dosed up on terribly quantities of asthma drugs...
You could definitely maintain a series of pages with Wordpress (on which you could keep the archive) and then you could add the archived items to the blog and set them post-dated so that they appear in the right order etc*. A bit of mundane work transferring things over - but usually fairly quick copy and paste job apart from uploading files etc.
You may need to hunt around a bit for a theme that will let you display all your pages as you want them - but I'd be happy to help you tweak any themes to get them working as you need.
*Wordpress has two sorts of content - 'Pages' and 'Posts'. Pages are for static content and blog posts for regularly updated content.
You can set the front page of your blog to be a page, a post, or the latest blog posts. You can add all sorts of listings of pages & posts around the site, add pages and posts into categories and browse content by category or date.
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Comment by Tony Taylor on November 18, 2008 at 9:10am -
Tim
Sorry to bother you some more. After doing a bit of surfing I'm interested in the Wordpress option. From what I can gather we could use this system to keep intact some of the features of our present site, particularly making available both contemporary and archived analytic accounts of practice, whilst putting in place an interactive blog. Is this the case? Obviously there'll be a lot of mundane work to do in transferring to Wordpress material we want to keep from the present site.
Advice appreciated
Cheers
Tony
PS How's the cough?
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Comment by Tim Davies on November 17, 2008 at 5:06am
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Hey Tony
There are some alternatives out there to Ning... Critically Chatting strikes me as though you might want to move it to something like Wordpress.com - which is a blogging platform pretty much free of advertising.
Blogs are well suited to discussion where you start with an article or stimulus posted by members or a core group, and then open up discussion in comments to a wider group. (i.e. where the discourse has some clear thread to it - but where you want others to get involved).
If critically chatting was a blog, we could feed the discussions from Critically chatting into the Fed site here, and into wider YouthWork forums using the 'RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed.
Alternatively - there are other systems like Ning out there with different prices and policies on ads which could be worth exploring...
All the best
Tim
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Comment by Tony Taylor on November 17, 2008 at 4:53am
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Thanks, Tim. I need to think this through a lot more. Really enjoyed your presentation - only a little 'geekish', amusing and stimulating. I am wondering whether I could move the Critically Chatting site across into the Ning format, which would encourage more immediate interaction, but I don't know if this is possible. In addition we wouldn't fancy the intrusive adverts and the cost of 20 quid a month to get rid is beyond our means.
Best Wishes
Tony
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