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  • New Study on Challenges and Chances of Social Communities in Austria published
    Newsflash
    AT - Verein Wiener Jugendzentren

    Vienna based research institute "jugendkultur.at" recently published a study about use of social networks among young people from 11-19 in Austria. Some key outputs also interesting for the Austrian pilot are:

  • PEW Internet : Social Media and Young Adults
    Newsflash

    The fine folks over at PEW INternet have recently released their results of a study on social media use by young adults. The report is freely available on their website.

  • INCLUSO winter workshop
    Newsflash
    PL - U Siemachy

    On the 5th and 6th of February 2010 we organised a workshop for all the INCLUSO participants form Krakow and Chorzow. The goal of the meeting was to summarise all the activities realised within the pilot so far and to plan the future of the project. We have been experiencing some troubles to perform social events planned online, so we decided to move on and find some other ideas. After some brainstorming, we decided to go for:

  • "Immersive" does not mean "attractive"
    Newsflash
    PL - U Siemachy

    Some time ago the Polish INCLUSO participants moved form an online forum to the Ning platform, as they wanted to use a more attractive tool. Apparently, they do not care that much about the immersiveness of social software. After several months they claimed the forum to have been simplier but much clearer at easier to follow. They said they preferred discussing on the online forum to communication on Ning, although the latter allowed for uploading pictures, movies, adding comments etc.

  • SIMPLE CAN NEVER BE SIMPLE ENOUGH
    Newsflash
    UK - Station House Media Unit

    The web address of the site we set up for the members of the Middlefield Youth Flat (MYF) is www.middlefieldyouthflat.ning.com, but it seems that was too long and may have put some young people off from engaging with the site.

  • Protest group: "Keep the MYF Ning site"
    Newsflash
    UK - Station House Media Unit

    The last thing shmu's Incluso team expected when it closed down the Middlefield Youth Flat (MYF) Ning site was someone creating a 'Keep the MYF' protest group! Irene Jimenez, Incluso assistant at shmu, delivered the news of the closure to young people in the flat at her final visit on Tuesday 2nd February, 2010. She didn't know what to expect. Would they be pleased, disappointed, upset, angry?

  • r ur comunctn skls mprvng?
    Newsflash
    UK - Station House Media Unit

    Txt-spk, or text speak, is challenging the shmu teams running Incluso pilots. We'd love it if the young people would write messages in English that's clear, spelled correctly and with impeccable grammar. It doesn't happen like that, though. Instead we get short messages like this one: kk u too ill fix it imrn or summin has any one got the m all yet That's more than 2 weeks old and we still haven't managed to translate it!

  • Social software - expect the unexpected
    Newsflash
    UK - Station House Media Unit

    Should a 16-year-old pregnant schoolgirl be allowed to publish the black & white scan image of her unborn child on a social network which has members aged between 12 and 19? This is just one of the many fascinating questions faced by the staff team running one of shmu's Incluso pilots in Aberdeen, Scotland.

  • Age differences in closed social network groups
    Newsflash
    UK - Station House Media Unit

    Shmu's Incluso assistant Irene Jimenez has been reflecting on age differences and engagement with the closed social network at one of Shmu's pilots. She finds that:

  • Video, not words, attracts young people
    Newsflash
    UK - Station House Media Unit

    The one thing young people taking part in all Shmu's Incluso pilots have in common is a preference for watching video over reading. And since there's so much to explain and talk about in the course of a pilot, Shmu's Incluso team has decided to record a range of 2 minute videos giving them food for thought. The videos will include the following: 

  • Competition to win the Incluso prize
    Newsflash
    UK - Station House Media Unit

    We mustn’t underestimate the influence of offline activity in our online researches as we try to engage young people using social software.   Engaging them with our research sites is an ongoing struggle. We try designing the appearance so that it looks appealing, try to include detail which reflects the flat, its activities and functions and engage them with video and photo uploads. The latest attempt to engage has been by a three-pronged approach: a competition, a poll and a discussion.  

  • Social Networking about Social Software
    Newsflash
    UK - Station House Media Unit

    Since the Incluso research deals with young people and online technologies it makes sense to join in the broader conversation about these activities going on the internet. One excellent website I have discovered is UK-based: Youth Work Online: Exploring Youth Engagement in a Digital Age. It's built using the Ning platform which shmu in Aberdeen, Scotland, is using for its own researches. (Other partners use it too.)

  • Interview Jo Van Hecke (Belgium partner) in Central station Antwerp about Incluso project
    Newsflash
    BE - Tonuso

    A Flemish radio and television personality Anja Daems had a challenge to make a website and donate 15.000€ for an inclusion project in Belgium http://www.klikmee.be/   Therfore she had to interview 12 guests in 12h about Inclusion of marginalized people in Flandern. The guests of Anja Daems where politicians, media people and people who worked with marginalized youth.

  • The Influencers - key people
    Newsflash
    UK - Station House Media Unit

    So much of the work we do on our pilot sites depends on the Influencers. In groups of young people, the Influencers are the individuals who others look up to and follow. They may be charismatic, they may be the show offs, the toughest, the prettiest or the cleverest. Whatever it is gives them influence over others, this can be used by social networking teams to draw others into the site.

  • INCLUSO-2010 Conference: Call for Papers extended till 22 March.
    Newsflash

    CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED TILL MARCH 22ND Scope and Goal More and more attention is paid to the use of ICT and more specifically, social software, for improving the social inclusion of Youth at Risk. This was also recognised by the European Commission that organised in 2007 a special Framework Programme 7 call for projects on this subject.

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