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  Hilary

  11 months ago

  Firstly thanks Mike for the complement about my blogging. I still feel like it's early days but I'm definately enjoying the experience.
  
  Secondly, I agree about encouraging and developing collaboration. I have learnt so much from being on line blogging. There are the online forums such as UKYouthonline that Tim has set up but I have benefited equally from seeing what other people have written, who they are talking to and learning from their experiences. Just by being online I have expanded my knowledge not only of what is out there but also about what might be possible.
  
  We've started to encourage our staff to explore and look at what is out there. As a Senior Management Team working across the county we are slowly starting to expand the ways in which we meet and collaborate on work without having to be in the same place but this is a slow process. The main thing that has struck me is just how far removed working in this way is for many of my colleagues and how much we need to do in order to give them the skills and confidence to share their views, experiences and off the wall ideas.
  
  But....I think (optimistically!) that as the community grows, as we develop the skills and understanding of how this way of working can enhance our own work, then we will gradually see more collaboration and sharing of ideas....or so I hope!
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  mas

  11 months ago

  Thanks Hilary - and thats a great endorsement of what I think the potential is. It just needs a few more people to follow in your footsteps and it will certainly grow and become more useful - in fact really its inevitable that at some point the youth sector will see online technology as integral to at least some of what it does, it would be nice though to see the sector become pioneers rather than struggling to catch up as it currently is.
  
  Much like the projects young people set up with us though it always needs a few people to get things going in the first place.
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