Your community of practice – over to you

Documentation & practice sharing – essential for a musically inclusive England

✻ saves you time – practical resources

✻ moves the practice forward – knowledge, ideas

✻ helps you articulate your practice – eg quality

✻ strengthens your professional identity – within

and outside your community

•78 members

•6

posts a month from you

•200

monthly unique visitors

• Wide-ranging topics … rural inclusion, working with BME communities, young music leaders, working in PRUs, SEND, young bands, progression routes, creativity and more…

A reminder of what we’ve done over the programme:

YOUTH MUSIC NETWORK – Musical Inclusion group

A reminder of what we’ve done over the programme:

YOUTH MUSIC NETWORK – Musical Inclusion group

• Some posts have prompted rich discussion through comments …

• Some now being designed & created into a suite of pdf documents

A reminder of what we’ve done over the programme:

TWITTER - @musinclusion #musicalinclusion

• 413 followers – from Wigmore Hall to hubs to ACE officers to music producers to Sistema England

• Increasing all the time

• Lots of retweeting

A reminder of what we’ve done over the programme:

FACEBOOK Musical Inclusion secret group

• 53 members

• Not quite so active – posts aren’t always seen – but when topic sparks interest, has drawn in 6 or so commenters

• More instant, personal

• Only group can see

A reminder of what we’ve done over the programme:

GOOGLE HANGOUTS x 2

A reminder of what we’ve done over the programme:

ENEWS for Musical Inclusion

• All collated and shared on a monthly enews

• 181 subscribers

• Now merged into Youth Music Network enews

Good news for the community: a bigger community of practice

We can now open the networks to everyone – more in keeping with social networking, more in the community, more activity:

• YMN - 5,600 registered members• 8,084 newsletter subscribers• 10,904 monthly visitors (average)• 3,334 Twitter followers• Increasing engagement and discussion

THANK YOU!

Now it’s over to you, as champions of a musically inclusive

England