Slides from the Connected Practice symposium in Glasgow on 14th September 2009. Building on http://blogs.nya.org.uk/ywsn/

1. Taking (youth) services online
Tim Davies (tim@practicalparticipation.co.uk)
14th September 2009
Human Services in the Network Society Symposium

2. 1) Engaging with Social Network Sites
2) The Social Media Game
3) The Hurdles to Engagement
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3. 1) Engaging with Social Network Sites
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4. What are Social
Network Sites?

5. How are young people
‘social networking’
online?

6. www.flickr.com/photos/28859335@N00/120018144 http://flickr.com/photos/morgantepsic/176795867/ http://flickr.com/photos/andreasnilsson1976/530776998/
Keeping in Making new
contact Sharing content contacts
Informal
Hanging out Exploring identity learning
http://flickr.com/photos/mshades/169570194/ http://flickr.com/photos/loosepunctuation/959524837/ http://flickr.com/photos/lewiselementary/152620388/

7. What is youth
work?

8. Youth Work
• 4,225 (3,630 FTE) Youth
Workers,
• 17,000 (3,900 FTE) Youth
Support Workers
• In contact with average
27.5% of local 13 – 19
year old population
• Works with excluded
groups
Source: NYA Audit, 2005-6 (www.nya.org.uk)

9. Youth Work
• Statutory sector youth service established
in the 1960s
• Young person centered model – starting
where young people are
• Informal education, associational, group
work - moving beyond where young
people start
• Resourcefulness, Resiliency, Resolve

10. How do we find a youth
work perspective on
social networking?

12. Young people need support to develop the appropriate resources and
resilience to navigate risk and to make the most of opportunities on
SNS, and peer groups need opportunities to negotiate and develop positive
norms for their interaction on SNS.

13. Youth work can engage with SNS as one or more of:
 an environment in which young people need support and guidance;
 a marketing tool for promoting youth work opportunities and activities;
 a communications tool for interacting with young people and groups
of young people;
 a youth work tool for promoting young peoples creative expression,
political engagement and wider personal and social development;
 a starting point to work from in helping young people develop their
skills, interests and capacities across a range of issues and areas;
 a platform for new forms of online youth work;

14. Where do we want to
move towards?

17. Friend of a friend?
Bebo?

18. Friend of a friend?
Bebo?
You shouldn't be
using those sites.
They're dangerous.

19. Friend of a friend?
You shouldn't be
Bebo?
using those sites.
They're dangerous.

24. Has everyone completed a
photo permission form? Did
you check the bit about how
you can use the photos you all
take on your phones?

25. This evening we've got a group session
talking about image. Do you think people
portray themselves differently on MySpace
to how they are face to face?
Has everyone completed a
photo permission form? Did
you check the bit about how
you can use the photos you all
take on your phones?

26. This evening we've got a group session
talking about image. Do you think people
portray themselves differently on MySpace
to how they are face to face?
If you want to look up more
about this evening's session on
crime you can check out these
Has everyone completed a Bebo pages
photo permission form? Did
you check the bit about how
you can use the photos you all
take on your phones?

27. Friend of a friend? If you want to look up more
You shouldn't be about this evening's session on
Bebo?
using those sites. crime you can check out these
They're dangerous. Bebo pages

30. Dan Smith
Devon Youth
Service

31. Dan Smith
Devon Youth
Service

32. Dan Smith
Devon Youth
Service

33. Dan Smith
Devon Youth
Service
Send Invitation

34. Friend of a friend? If you want to look up more
You shouldn't be about this evening's session on
Bebo?
using those sites. crime you can check out these
They're dangerous. Bebo pages
Dan Smith
Devon Youth
Service
Send Invitation

41. Add as Friend

42. Add as Friend

43. Add as Friend
See Profile

44. Add as Friend
See Profile

45. Add as Friend
See Profile

46. Friend of a friend? If you want to look up more
You shouldn't be about this evening's session on
Bebo?
using those sites. crime you can check out these
They're dangerous. Bebo pages
Dan Smith
See Profile Add as Friend
Devon Youth
Service
Send Invitation

47. Negotiating the move
online...

48. Taking Youth Services Online: putting the elements together
Young people’s use of Youth work values &
social media professional skills
Models of online Features of available/
communication & popular social media
collaboration tools
Institutional drivers
Consideration of
of, and barriers to,
opportunity & risk
online engagement
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49. Promoting activities for young people...
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50. Promoting activities for young people...
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51. Promoting activities for young people...
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52. Promoting activities for young people...
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53. Taking Youth Services Online: putting the elements together
Young people’s use of Youth work values &
social media professional skills
Models of online Features of available/
communication & popular social media
collaboration tools
Institutional drivers
Consideration of
of, and barriers to,
opportunity & risk
online engagement
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54. www.practicalparticipation.co.uk

55. 2) The Social Media Game
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56. Promoting Positive
Safeguarding & Child
Activities for Young
Protection
People
Getting young
Supporting
people to
Adolescent Mental
influence the
Health Service
development of a
Users
new service
Carrying out
Carrying out
‘online detached
street based youth
work’ - virtual
work
street workers
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57. Scenario:
Professionals involved:
Tools Considerations & approach
(8 pts total)
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58. www.practicalparticipation.co.uk

59. 3) Barriers to Engagement
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63. Network:
http://www.youthworkonline.org.uk
Blog:
http://www.timdavies.org.uk
@timdavies
Projects & support:
http://www.practicalparticipation.co.uk
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