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How to safely use ‘Questions’ on Instagram

July 27, 2018July 30, 2018 By Chris

Recently Instagram introduced ‘Questions’ – the latest feature onto the photo sharing app. Users are now able to invite their followers to ask them questions, which they can then publicly

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#Children's and Youth Work #Social action #Social Media #The web

Digital Skills training from Media Trust. Interested?

July 9, 2018 By Chris

Did you know… more than 70% of charities believe strengthening their digital skills would help their organisation to grow its network and deliver a more effective strategy but despite this…

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#Children's and Youth Work #Education #Schools work #Social Media #The web

Digital Friendships of young people aged 8‐17 years

June 14, 2018June 22, 2018 By Chris

For Safer Internet Day 2018, the UK Safer Internet Centre commissioned an online survey of 2000 young people aged 8‐17 years, which was conducted by Censuswide. The findings reveal how

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Scarlett Moffatt has a selfie warning for young girls

December 23, 2017 By Chris

Scarlett Moffatt, who came to fame through Gogglebox, is getting real about filtered pictures of women on social media. The 2016 winner of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here

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#Children's and Youth Work #Education #New Forest #News #Schools work

Hampshire detectives charge man following investigation into online sexual offences

December 6, 2017December 11, 2017 By Chris

Hampshire Constabulary have released a statement about a local investigation into online sexual offences: Officers from the child abuse investigation team at Hampshire Constabulary have charged a man in connection

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#Children's and Youth Work #Church #Ministry

Children’s & youth work links

November 18, 2017November 18, 2017 By Chris

Links from the world of children’s and youth ministry: Scripture Union produces simplified Nativity story to avoid confusing children who don’t go to church: A spokeswoman said the change had been prompted

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IKEA built a replica of a Syrian refugee home inside a store

January 10, 2017 By Chris

As part of a campaign with the Norwegian Red Cross, Ikea has built a model of a Syrian home in a store in Norway to show shoppers what life inside

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7-year-old Syrian girl live-tweeting her life in Aleppo

October 4, 2016November 5, 2016 By Chris

Bana is just 7 years old but she knows how to tweet.  A video posted on her Twitter account @alabedbana shows her back as she stands in front of a window, long

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#Children's and Youth Work #Social Media #Society #Technical/Gadgets #The web

8 Reasons to Rethink Teens & Sexting

September 24, 2016 By Chris

Megan Maas has written a blog on 8 Reasons to Rethink Teens & Sexting for the Huffington Post.  Here’s a few snippets from the blog which are essential reading for any

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#Children's and Youth Work #Social Media #Statistics #The web

An Infographic on Anonymous Apps and Teenagers

July 20, 2016January 16, 2021 By Chris

One of the most frequent questions I receive from parents is about apps that teenagers are using and what a caring parents perspective should be on them. The team from Rawhide.org have

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15 Twitter statistics you need to know

March 20, 2016 By Chris

These 15 statistics by Social Marketing Writing can help you get your message seen by more people – more retweets, followers and traffic.

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Social Media Image Sizes 2016 Infographic

March 8, 2016September 7, 2016 By Chris

Social media is a key communication channel for youth workers.  One of the challenges is that all the different social media networks constantly change the goal posts in terms of

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