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Absolutely. In today's market, where job openings are far and few inbetween, it would certainly benefit you to do some volunteer work. How so? Skills: What better way to keep your skills sharpened or learn new ones? I can't think of a better forum to learn about new software and updated networks...
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Forwarded message: ================== Greetings! I'm writing to you about Mozilla Service Week, a joint project by the Mozilla Foundation and Idealist.org, which will officially take place from September 14 to September 21. What is it exactly? Mozilla Service Week is a week-long event during which...
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In the late 1990s, I co-wrote The Virtual Volunteering Guidebook with Susan Ellis. It is a free manual to help organizations involve online volunteers, as well as to use online tools to support all volunteers. I am currently revising this Guidebook. If you ever have been a volunteer, OR if you have worked...
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"I second Don's comment welcoming the opportunity to discuss these volunteer management issues more in depth." I'm not sure that the TechSoup volunteers and tech discussion board is the appropriate place to discuss volunteer management issues in depth. This board has very specific parameters...
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Hi, Jayne, Thanks, those are the original citations that I read, and got so much from. It looks to me like we are saying the same thing in different ways. My comments relate to the section on Trust (pg. 4 in the pdf version of The Psychology of Effective Business Communications in Geographically Dispersed...
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If you recruit online volunteers without the standards of volunteer management for traditional volunteers, indeed, you will have a lot of online volunteer drop outs. All of my information about working with online volunteers says this again and again -- volunteers online are just as reliable, just as...
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Definitely make your volunteer application form robust and detailed -- this is your first crack at screening in volunteers who know how to make a commitment and know how to communicate via the written word, and screening out people who don't understand that volunteering online takes real time and...
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I'm flattered! In the interest of full disclosure -- I just ended my time as volunteer coordinator for AWN. I served in this position for more than a year, and felt very strongly all along that it was important for other volunteers to step forward and take on this and other volunteer leadership roles...
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[quote user="hvalli"]We're wondering if there should be a drop-down menu with skills, to help organize our volunteers and link them up with opportunities.[/quote] Hi Heather, In addition to Don's excellent advice, I wanted to add a comment from my experience as a marketer. At what point...
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Hi, Jayne, I second Don's comment welcoming the opportunity to discuss these volunteer management issues more in depth. [quote user="jcravens42"]Working with online and offline volunteers, I haven't found this at all. In my experience, the drop out rates have been exactly the same....