Phase 2: action research

We've come to the end of Phase 1 (literature review, survey, focus groups) of the Youth Work and Social Networking research, and I hope to be able to post our interim report on this blog soon.

Now that we're moving into our action research phase, and we are free from the stack of literature to be read and data to be digested that made up Phase 1 - we'll hopefully be able to blog more actively, sharing some of our learning so far, and some of our journey was we work with three your services to explore how they can support young people's interaction with online social networking.

Between now and the end of July, working with our action research partners, we will be:

• Developing training and development ideas and sessions to equip youth workers with an understanding of online social networks;
• Piloting youth work sessions and session ideas for young people related to online social networking;
  
• Exploring ways in which social network sites can be used to promote youth services;
• Developing policies and guidance for youth services engaging with young people through online social network spaces;
  

We'd love to hear from anyone else exploring their own policy and practice youth work responses to online social networking - or to hear about the questions you really want to see explored.

Use the comments below to get in touch, or get in touch with tim@practicalparticipation.co.uk