Projects
As well as working with a wide range of clients, we spend time on a number of our own projects. You can find out about a few of them below…
Youth Engagement & Social Media: The YES guide
Over the last few years we’ve learnt a lot about the practicalities of using social media in work with young people – whether in day-to-day youth work, in youth participation, or in outreach work or activism.
The Youth Engagement and Social Media guide is our attempt to pull that learning together into a practical resource.
It’s a work in progress, but you can always find the latest version at http://www.practicalparticipation.co.uk/yes/
In the future we hope to be able to offer bespoke versions of the guide to different groups.
Youth Work Online
Youth Work Online is a thriving community of practice for youth sector professionals and volunteers interested in the use and impacts of digital media.
Set up by Practical Participation whilst we were working on the Youth Work and Social Networking project, Youth Work Online has since become established as a key space for discussions of work with young people in the digital age.
Social Strategy and the Interactive Charter
What started with a blog post on the barriers to open government (based on Tim’s work leading an Action Learning Set of practitioners exploring social networking), soon became a project to remove the blocks which limit effective use of social technology with The Interactive Charter and Social Strategy Wiki.