Hi Everybody! This blog will be for those wonderful people who work in the Community Sector. It is currently run by me, Daniel, a worker at the Youth Affairs Network of Qld (YANQ) which is the peak body for Youth Services in Queensland, Australia. But this isn’t just for youth workers, this is for anyone who works in any part of the community sector.
This isn’t really a work-related blog, it’s more about who we are as people, as workers struggling away in an under-resourced, under-funded sector, and how we can find the technical, logistical, and everyday support to help us along, for those particularly long weeks when our passion for helping people just isn’t quite enough…
Of course, sometimes there are sector things going on that affect us all, like therecent wage-increase that the Government couldn’t afford to cover, meaning that many organisations had to cut hours to cover our small wage increase. This struggle will be ongoing, and I hope you’ll all leave comments and thoughts and messages of support to share how you feel about all this.
I’ll also post things of a very practical nature, like how to use social networking (like facebook and twitter) to make your life easier, and how to make sure your workstation is OH&S compliant, and also things completely unrelated to work, like what’s going on the world, or where to run away to this weekend.
I hope you’ll all try to follow regularly, and chase me up if I don’t post often enough. Try using an RSS system, and let me know if you don’t know how – I’ll include a post about it!
This is your blog, Community people!
