Photo in Schmap

One of my photos made it into the new Edinburgh Schmap !!!  It’s this one of Murrayfield Parish Church.  Another example of the power of TAGGING!

the simple answer to networking?

looks like a brilliant idea.  The idea is simple.  Post what kind of people you want to meet up with and why.  Name a time and a venue.  People come.  It’s that simple.  Still not sure?  Watch this: This seems to me like a tool we (the church) should be using lots to network children’s Read More …

National Youth Assembly

I’ve been invited to head up a team delivering a debate stream (I’ll explain in a minute) at the Church of Scotland’s National Youth Assembly in September. The debates have in the past followed a fairly traditional model where people would be given written information prior to the event, someone would present more information on Read More …

Textorizer

I posted last week about wordle, the cool visualiser which takes your text and makes a nice image.  Well textorizer is a whole new level!  Add in your text, pick a picture and hey presto! Genius!  The good news is you can download textorizer for windows, linux and mac. H.T. Jonny

Youthwork International

Youthwork International is a new website for youth workers… who are from all over the world.  This is what the site says about itself: Thousands of Christian youthworkers supporting each other in dozens of countries… The best ideas for youth work at the click of a button… A blogging community sharing ideas and resources… Access to Read More …

100 Web Tools

You know that there are loads of cool new webtools around but you forget where they are, who they might suit or what situation they might be useful in? Well college@home have a very helpful list of 100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner. What is great about the list is the ‘every Read More …

Youth Work and Social Networking

The National Youth Agency (England) have just published an interim report from a study into Youth Worker’s attitudes to Social Networking. The project blog is here. Not surprisingly only 35% of youth workers felt able to help young people take advantage of the opportunities of Social Networking as opposed to 53% who felt they should Read More …