An online notebook
CLG have added a whole load of fresh material to their YouTube account, which includes clips from minister Hazel Blears’ trip around the subcontinent and some from the department’s youth engagement work. One of my favourites is this, from the first meeting of the new Youth Advisors with Hazel Blears, featuring the impish Rory Birch:
I’ve spent my last two Saturdays at events running social media surgeries. I nicked the idea from Birmingham Blogger extraordinaire Pete Ashton, who has a regular afternoon spot in a cafe, where folk can come and ask quick questions about blogging and whatnot. I think these work particularly well at events, where hopefully people get … Keep reading
One of the highlights of yesterday’s UKYouthOnline unconference was Steph Gray‘s presentation of some Forrester research commissioned by DIUS on what online services are regularly used by young people. Steph has generously posted his slides on Slideshare: [HTML1]
It’s been a great start to the day at UKYouthOnline. You can follow the twitter back channel (no snarkiness spotted yet, must be a record) at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=ukyouthonline and I’m uploading a few photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ukyouthonline Do join in by leaving messages wherever you can!
Tim is inviting people to put forward ideas for sessions at the upcoming UKYouthOnline conference on the event’s social network. I have put forward mine: a social web surgery: My idea for a session at the unconference is to run a surgery on how youth web projects might work. If people have ideas but aren’t … Keep reading