I've added a short video talking about (and showing) work we're doing with Stockport Adult Social Care in developing a communication and engagement portal which enables their staff to use videos and blogs to communicate about the transformation programme in the directorate. We've got staff at all levels of the organisation, stakeholder staff, and service users all taking to the use of the Flip handheld video cameras. In addition to the video on the site here (find it through the video menu optio… Continue

1. "EU Kids Online is delighted to announce the publication of its new book, "Kids Online: Opportunities and Risks for Children", edited by Sonia Livingstone and Leslie Haddon (Bristol: Policy Press). This provides an up to date account of how children use the internet in Europe, including such topical issues as social networking, risky contacts, parental mediation, media literacy and many more.

As Professor Tanya Byron, author of the influential Byron Review into Safer Children in a Digital Wo… Continue

We've just added a video clip of delegates' reactions to the research symposium and some short interviews with four of the presenters. The videos are HD format so the quality is high but might take a while to download! The delegates' reactions convey well just how stimulating the symposium proved to be, and just how complex the issues are for human service managers and practitioners.

We also added a discussion topic in the forum above prompted by a face to face discussion with one of the sympos… Continue

Reposted from Tim's Blog.

If you write a title of the form ‘Five interesting things about X’ at the top of a page or blog post, where X is an event, a workshop you’ve run, or a paper you’ve just read, chances are you can fairly quickly distil a page or post full of, well, five interesting things.

And chances are that other people will find it useful.

If you ask me, that’s fa… Continue

During the Human Services and the Network Society event we asked participants to use post-it notes to post messages about key practice, policy and research issues for human services in the network society.

Whether you were at the event or not you can now view, add to, comment and vote on the issues posted by visiting the website below. I'm afraid you'll have to log in to comment or add an issue (otherwise we would be quickly overwhelmed by spammers) but it's fairly straight… Continue