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Now up to 17 reasons to be blogging

Andreas has offered 10 more reasons for youth professionals to start blogging over at non-formality.

Which along with the 7 reasons I shared 10 days ago takes us up to 17. The number of statutory sector youth workers blogging we've discovered still remains at 0, but we're still hopeful and, along with DK and Mike, I'm putting together an offer of support for those who want to get started in the blogosphere.

Are you interested in getting started blogging? Use the comments to let us know...

Published Jan 23 2008, 03:10 PM by Tim Davies

Filed under: youth workers, blogging, networking

Comments

Sarah Bisson said:

Blogging would be a revolution for youth workers for all the reasons which you give, especially in a rural setting (which i am more than familiar with) where it can be quite isolating at times.

I fear though that people would be very careful about what they wrote and it would not create the revolution that you hope for due to political reasons i.e workers not wanting to rock the boat to much with funders or other parties! i'm not saying that this is right, we should be able to talk about the pressures and constraints we face in youth work today as well as all the good stuff that keeps us going, but this is the reality of the world within which we work now.

Saying that though...where could we set up a blog if we wanted to?

January 23, 2008 7:39 PM

Mike Amos-Simpson said:

This seems the easiest place to start:

www2.blogger.com/tour_start.g

this might help too

www.breakfastsociety.com/.../youth-work-guide-to-blogging

& if it doesn't let us know what else you'd like to know to be able to get started!!

January 23, 2008 10:29 PM

About Tim Davies

Tim Davies is a freelance consultant and researcher focussing on youth work and youth and community participation.

Tim graduated with a first class BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) from Oxford University in 2006. Whilst at University and for a short while afterwards Tim worked as a trainer and consultant with the Participation team of The National Youth Agency, developed the Hear by Right online shared learning tool and managed the final relaunch of the Participation Works online gateway for NCB/Participation Works. He has designed and delivered consultations for national and local government. Tim was also responsible for developing a national online management information system for YouthBank UK, now providing micro-finance grant management tools to over 80 sites across England and Ireland. Tim has also worked as communications manager for Just Fair Trade in Leicester.

Writing and blogging widely, Tim recently co-authored a chapter in the Open University reader 'Leading and Managing Youth Work' with Bill Badham.

Tim draws on skills as a technology steward and social media specialist to make the most of collaboration, consultation and community building technology in projects he works on - and to support youth organisations in engaging with social media.