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The Millennials

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, Society on January 9, 2012 | 3 Comments »

I spotted this over on Dylan’s blog, go check it out: As with many infographics this data is based from America, but it has much to apply to the UK situation.  Some key points 1. Use of technology -  75% on a social networking site and 20% having posted a video. This is a generation [...]

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Monitoring poverty and social exclusion

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, Society, Statistics on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The annual report on the state of poverty and social exclusion in the UK, from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the New Policy Institute has recently been published: Key points In the year to 2009/10, the child poverty rate fell to 29%, the second fall in two years. Child poverty fell by around one-seventh under [...]

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Divorcing Couple Ordered by Judge to Swap Facebook Passwords

Posted in Society, The web on November 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Dividing homes, cars, and kids in a divorce is oh-so-last year.  The new trend in divorce today is handing over each other’s Facebook passwords. That’s what a judge in Connecticut has ordered: At the end of September, Judge Kenneth Shluger ordered that the attorneys for Stephen and Courtney Gallion exchange “their client’s Facebook and dating [...]

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7 Billion: Are You Typical?

Posted in Society, Statistics on November 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Interesting video from National Geographic on the typical person as the population passes 7 Billion:

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Deeper problems lie behind jobless youth

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, Society on November 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

An interesting article on Deeper problems lie behind jobless youth in the Financial Times, here’s some snippets: Youth unemployment is a problem which, while not as severe as the headline rate implies, encompasses some intractable difficulties. The 1.02m figure is a record but comparable data go back only to 1992. It was worse in the 1980s and more [...]

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Why are young people still staying away from church?

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, Church, Society, Statistics, Theology on November 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Barna Group and David Kinnaman continue to share findings from their five-year project surveying young people and young adults on their reasons for disconnecting from the Church.  In particular, the study looked at those youth who had been active in church but are no longer.  The focus is on American participants but there are many correlations to the situation [...]

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Books I have read: The Suburban Christian

Posted in Books, Church, Society, Theology on November 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I met Albert Hsu at Cape Town 2010 (The Third Lausanne Congress) and following some conversations around the development of suburbia and theology I picked up his book The Suburban Christian: Finding Spiritual Vitality in the Land of Plenty.  Suburban Christianity is something that needs to be studied further, however this book ended up as a relatively academic study [...]

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7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast?

Posted in Society on November 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Fascinating video that shows how we went from 0.3 billion people to 7 billion in 1000 years:

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Youth Culture Links

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, Society, Statistics, Technical/Gadgets on October 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Some useful blog posts and news articles for those interested in youth culture: Facebook is expanding yet again: as part of its ongoing effort to stay ahead of Google+. This time, the site will unveil “read,” “listen,” “watch,” and “want” buttons on the wall along with the “like” button. We imagine Millennials will “like” these [...]

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The mobile office?

Posted in Society on October 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Is remote working, being based out of the office the new office? It seems like with the proliferation of mobile devices combined with coffee shops providing good quality broadband we have less of a need for a physical office, potentially saving £1,000s.  Check out this infographic, what do you think about remote working?

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