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Tuesday Jan 20, 2009

Be part of the future

Hi everyone,

As a result of funding from Vodafone and V, YouthNet is building a comprehensive new website to help young people make decisions about their work, training and study options.

As regular users of the boards will know we always try to involve our users as much as possible in new developments. However this time we're planning something much, much more ambitious. If you're under 26 we'd be really excited to get you involved in creating and shaping exactly what this new site will be.

I've always felt that the more users can be involved in new developments, the better a website can be, however, previous development has been constrained at times - limited by the time we've had available and the requirements of having to update an existing service rather than starting from scratch.

But there's no similar problem here. By starting with an entirely new website we can really get everyone interested involved in the real nitty-gritty of building a website. For us it means an opportunity to check our thinking with yours and share all the excitement a huge new project can bring. For you it's a chance to get involved with something that will be an important and exciting part of young people's lives. It's also an opportunity to see how things are born on the web, from a very YouthNet perspective.

So if you think you have an idea of what would improve your time at school or work; if you want to get into web development; if you think your opinion is something we should hear; if you want to write, draw, film or record the experiences of others - or are just a little bit curious - then this is a great chance for you. It's also a great chance for us to shape how we'll be doing all future consultation, including work for the good ol' Site.

You'll be volunteering through YouthNet, with the support of the communities team, and let's make one thing clear from the start - you're opinions will have a real, lasting effect on the future of our work and a website you may be using in a few months.

If you're up for it then all you need to do is apply through the project group member opportunity over on our sister site, do-it.org.uk and bear in mind the opportunity is based online and is available to everyone across the UK.

I'll look forward to working with you

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