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Author Archives: Patrick Daniels
Breakfast Seminar: Young people, alcohol and sex
Tuesday, 24th April 2012, 8.30-10.30am Young people aged 16-24 years old are three times more likely to have unprotected sex when they are drunk. They also account for nearly half of the sexually transmitted infections diagnosed in sexual health clinics. … Continue reading
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End the violence – hear the voice
As we come to the end of a bewildering and tragic week, we’re still taking in what has happened. The riots that started in London, and spread around the country, were an unprecedented wave of violence in the heart of … Continue reading
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Online community – friends and experts
Online Community – Friends and Experts View more presentations from Patrick Daniels This is a write up of the presentation I gave at yesterday’s Breakfast seminar at YouthNet. The beginning We often talk about how online community and social media … Continue reading
Volunteers Week at YouthNet – Thanks to our community
Day three of Volunteers Week and we’d like to big up a whole bunch of YouthNet volunteers over on TheSite.org’s Discussion Boards. One of the questions we get most in relation to the online communities we manage is about the … Continue reading
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Welcome to Planet Net
ERYICA (European Youth Information and Counselling Agency) is currently working on a project to produce an InfoKit for youth information workers across Europe. The InfoKit will be designed to help information providers facilitate young people’s access to high quality information, … Continue reading
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Brief history of web info services
The web’s development has had an enormous and growing influence on the way information, advice and guidance (IAG) services are delivered. Recently, I’ve been doing some thinking about how IAG services for young people have developed on the web. The … Continue reading
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Engagement and Support
Today I presented some of the thinking we’ve been doing in the Engagement and Support team at YouthNet. We’ve been thinking about mapping all the online services YouthNet delivers and how we engage with and support young people in this … Continue reading
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Youth information and the web
The other week I had the opportunity to get to know more about the network for youth information workers in Europe called ERYICA. The European Youth Information and Counselling Agency (ERYICA) is an international not-for-profit association based in Luxembourg. It … Continue reading
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Using the web to provide information and mental health support
Web for Information and Mental Health Support View more presentations from paddaniels. This was presented at the ‘Risks and Opportunities: The Internet and Mental Health’ conference organised by the Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health (25th Feb 2010). We’ve all … Continue reading
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Is the web changing the way we give?
I’ve summarised my thoughts so far on thinking about how the concept of the gift economy can help us understand giving activities, such as volunteering and participation, in the context of the social web. I’ve done this ahead of the … Continue reading
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