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Blogging from China…

Posted in Blogs, china, young people, tagged , , , , on October 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »

…is proving interesting! It appears that our WordPress site is blocked so our foray into blogging with young people has taken a slightly different turn with the group writing their blogs and then emailing them to me to post along with their photos. It seems to be working, so if you’re interested check it out [...]

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China Update 4 – They’re Off!!

Posted in china, tagged , , , , on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Well, the day I thought would never arrive finally has…….as I speak there are 12 young people and 3 youth work staff from West Sussex on a coach starting their adventure to China!
Wow! I’m amazed that we’ve managed to get everything in place. On Tuesday we had our last staff meeting. We went over the final [...]

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Blog Action Day 08 – Poverty!

Posted in Blogs, community, youth, tagged , , , , on October 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »

 
I’m hoping that I’m joining many other blogs today to talk about Poverty. In the guidance for joining Blog Action Day it suggests that bloggers keep their posts related to the subject they usually blog about. So I guess that means I’ll be looking at young people and poverty. 
I’ve been wondering what to write about [...]

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China Update 3

Posted in china, young people, tagged , on October 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I thought it was time to bring us up to speed with all things Chinese! Unfortunately I’ve had to withdraw from the exchange (at least physically) as I’ve not been too well and felt that I wouldn’t be able to lead and support the group on this exciting adventure as well as I needed to. [...]

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Blog Action Day 08

Posted in Social Change, tagged , , , , on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

One of the aspects of blogging that I’ve found so fascinating on my journey of the blogosphere has been the sense of being able to affect change and share our ideas and thoughts across the world. I read news and information from Australia to Malaysia, the States to China and right across the UK. In [...]

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APYCO Blogging!

Posted in Blogs, Youth - General, community, tagged , , , , on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It’s the APYCO Conference – Creating Shared Space, making integration work - and there’s some interesting comments and proposals on changes within the association. How do I know this? Well, in case you hadn’t picked it up – the Association of Principal Youth and Community Officers has now started a blog, with the major support of Tim Davies. [...]

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Social Media Strategy developments

Posted in Social Media, Youth - General, tagged , , , on October 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »

As I’ve detailed before I’m responsible for developing our Social Media strategy. To kick start this the social media staff group (made up of colleagues from across the service) had some training from Mediasnackers. Following that we have had a few discussions but due to pressure of time we haven’t been able to move as [...]

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Back again!

Posted in Blogs, tagged , on October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Sorry for the interruption in posting. I have unexpectedly been off work for the last two weeks and not in a posting frame of mind however hopefully that will now all change (although I’ll no doubt have a back log of emails to go through as well as updating myself on what has been happening [...]

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