We started this blog less than a year ago last July. It wasn’t our first attempt – we ran one for a short while before going to Tanzania in 2005 but it never really took off. I for one just never ‘got into it’ and I didn’t much see the point. I knew what we were doing back then would be interesting but I wasn’t sure it was interesting enough to other people to bother writing about (after all who reads blogs?!).

About 2 years ago we then started to develop an online volunteer network for young people involved with the programme we used to run. From this I became much more interested in the use of online networking and I searched mostly in vain for any sort of online networks related to working with young people in the UK. Through my searches I did find Tim Davies though after discovering he was trying to encourage the use of social media in the youth work sector. Subsequently I met up with Tim and it was from that meeting that Tim had got me thinking about giving blogging another go.

Of course we did and although we’re still finding our way a bit with the Late Breakfast Society I think its pretty well established now and its become a central part to the YoMo website.

Tim has recently laid out a very good case on his own blog to try and encourage more Youth Workers to blog. Through the subsequent discussions I suggested that a guide to ‘how to blog’ might be useful and here it is……

Blogging for Youth Workers

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