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Blog: Youth Board member Clare Herbert talks about the SpunOut.ie youth get together.

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The young engine behind SpunOut.ie got a hearty revving last Saturday, at a productive, inventive and highly entertaining meeting of the youth board.

Seven members of the board along with staff members Ruairi and Susan met for an inspiring brainstorm of where we're coming from and more importantly, where we're going.

The consensus was clear. 2008 will be SpunOut.ie's year. A year for new ideas, incentives and initiatives. A new year for new contributors (be it in journalism, creative writing, visual art, videos, photos or just about anything else you please) and maybe a few new faces on the youth board.

The planning meeting (minus brown envelopes) involved a re-evaluation of the chain of command to ensure that SpunOut.ie is truly youth-led. One of the challenges of working in an online medium is that one misses the human contact or just a friendly face. New methods of communication were discussed along with a firm commitment to meet up more often.

Dearbhail McDonald (Legal Editor with the Irish Indo) joined us in the afternoon, to offer her perspective on journalism, the youth press and the promise of SpunOut.ie. As always, her contribution was insightful, informative and highly entertaining.

Plotting, laughing, and sharing ideas with not a tie in sight, we left reinvigorated and ready (in so many words) to take over the world. This is the time to get on board. Spunout.ie is shooting for the stars. To get there with us, sign up now. (Find out how to Get Involved!)

Let me conclude with the words of Robert Kennedy:

"This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. It is a revolutionary world we live in, and thus, it is young people who must take the lead."

By: Clare Herbert, SpunOut.ie Youth Board