Wanted: Youth Work Bloggers
[SUMMARY—I feel a campaign coming on.]
(GBR) There are no statutory youth workers blogging in the UK. Period.
MediaSnackers has been talking about this for the last year and took the opportunity to challenge all the heads of the youth services when we spoke at their annual conference last November.
There are a few more welcome voices adding to the cause: Tim has done a great job at outlining the benefits and Mike has made a funky start on a blogging toolkit.
However, there is a certain amount of recognisble irony blogging about the lack of youth work bloggers—we're preaching to the converted and those who we need to convince don't read/know about blogs.
There's the rub.
The solution in my opinion, make it personal, as in, in person (hence our training sessions and speaking gigs—person to persons.
And the message must focus more on emotions than intellect. The brain has something called the limbic system, it controls our feelings and is far more powerful than the intellectual bit of our brain, the neocortex.
This coupled with demonstrations of how easy it is, its obvious benefits plus managerial buy-in/top-down commitment, then we'll get there: the first statutory UK-based youth worker blogging. It's only a matter of time folks.
Update (22/1/07): Nonformality writes a great post on their ten reasons why youth workers should be blogging.
Related post: How To Become A Leader and Youth Work(ers) Challenged
Filed by DK on January 13 2008
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