youthwork international is a new magazine for youth ministry. the ever entrepreneurial steve griffiths is the content development editor. it has a good look and feel. to access the content you have to sign up but that is free. the smart move on the site is that it means they will develop a database of youthministers – but signing up is a small price to pay for good content especially if it’s free. i assume demonstrating a number of subscribers will mean advertisers will buy in and other creative ways to make the site work economically can be explored such as getting people to link in to training options…

but see what you think. i haven’t read any articles yet but like the simple idea of news from different countries and the flags on the home page picking out one feature. i hope the board quickly changes representation to become much more international and gender balanced. that page is embarrassing though glad to see the photo of pete ward i took in princeton has resurfaced as it is so flattering!