Is seeing the negative a positive?

I’m not generally prone to being miserable.  Sometimes quiet but not usually sullen.  And I’m not today.  I’m feeling ok, not up but certainly not down.  So why the self reflection? Well, I’ve just left my feedback on the NYA over on the planning wiki and I’ve highlighted all the things I thought could be Read More …

Youth Activism and Social Media

Over the weekend at NYA2008 we spoke about the power of social media to bring people together for good.  I wish I’d checked all my RSS feeds because Ypulse have a great article linking to 10 youth activism sites.  All great examples of how the web can be used to organise people and bring them Read More …

NYA2008 days 3 & 4

The rest of Sunday’s session went ok I think.  We got into some of the upside to Open Source church and talked about how we could use social media to continue (or start) conversations like we have with Facebook and Twitter. Sunday night was Christmas!!!  We had a full Christmas dinner with turkey and all Read More …

NYA2008 days 2 and 3

It all seems like a bit of a blur.  I feel as if I’ve been here forever and it’s only been 2 and a half days.  It’s not one of those ‘when will this end?’ kind of events, just one that has you up at 7am and not in bed until very late.  When you Read More …

NYA2008 day 1 (friday)

Well it’s here.  After all the waiting and procrastinating (by me!), NYA2008 is here and I’m not sure what to say about it. As I said before I have history with this thing so it’s a little odd being here.  Despite not having been at the National Youth Assembly for several years is seems in Read More …

1 day to go til NYA2008

So, 24 hours until NYA2008 begins.  How am I feeling?  Well I’m just beginning to get excited after a day of not really caring much.  I guess that happens when you’ve been working on something for a while and it eventually comes around! This event is a bit of an technology experiment.  We’re using multiple Read More …