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Let's hear from others!
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Are you volunteering now with an organization, helping them with something computer or Internet-related? Are you volunteering now with an organization, helping them as an online volunteer, but not necessarily doing an assignment that's computer or Internet-related? Did you just finish either kind...
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Indeed, volunteering can help a person regarding his or her paid work. Bringing this thread back to the subject of volunteers and technology : Skills : yes, showing off skills as a volunteer at a nonprofit and building your portfolio can help you in finding paid work. However, don't volunteer for...
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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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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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On Thursday, April 23 , I will present a free, live webinar for TechSoup on how to effectively involve volunteers in computer and Internet related tasks at your organization . The webinar will focus on ways nonprofit organizations can identify such tech-related assignments, ways support volunteers in...
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Recruiting the volunteers will be easy. Coming up with short-term, quick fix projects at nonprofits will be harder. Nonprofits have trouble identifying such projects at their own organizations, and mobilizing their own resources to support the volunteer in the project (the volunteer doesn't just...
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Hi all! I see there's been a lot of posts about volunteer management programs, but I thought I'd make one specifically about Salesforce. I work at Goodwill in San Francisco, and we don't currently have a volunteer program, but my job is to create one. We already track our donors in Salesforce...
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Howdy! FYI, the TechSoup Volunteers & Technology Forum is for discussions regarding volunteers and technology -- how to use tech to support volunteers, how to work with volunteers working on tech-related projects, etc. The web is a great place to find references regarding volunteerism, but for comprehensive...
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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...