CLG, Youth Advisors and YouTube

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…

Social media surgeries

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…

How are young people using social media?

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]

My UKYouthOnline session?

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…

UKYouthOnline date and location confirmed

Tim Davies has confirmed when and where the UKYouthOnline unconference will be taking place: 27th September at the HQ of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, on Victoria Street in London. The event promises to be a fabuolous opportunity…

UK Youth Online

Tim Davies has blogged again about UK Youth Online, the barcamp he is arranging for somewhere in London on 17 May. It reminded me that I have totally failed to post about it yet. What’s it all about? Well, according…