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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Trends Over Time in Virtual Volunteering - NTEN - 0 views

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  • Today’s ability to oh-so-easily see and hear each other online is a double-edged sword: it can make electronic communication more personable, but it can also inject offline prejudices evoked by how someone looks or sounds.
  • Now, a lot of online communication is done synchronously, or nearly so: volunteers are online together, at the same time, talking together, and staff supporting those volunteers is often seeing their volunteering activities in real time.
  • People do not communicate primarily via e-mail anymore; they now talk together via online social networks and in the comments section of blogs, photo-sharing sites, and video-sharing sites. Some people send far more SMS messages than email messages.
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  • they can and do engage in service just about anywhere, not only with a laptop, but with a tablet or smart phone.
  • The most welcomed change in the last few years is that using the Internet to communicate with, engage, and support volunteers has been adopted in one way or another by a majority of nonprofit organizations in the USA. What hasn’t changed is that there are still thousands of organizations resisting any use of the Internet to support and involve volunteers, with thousands of other organizations involving online volunteers while still not understand that the involvement; I volunteered mostly online for a regional office of the Girl Scouts of the USA in 2010 and 2011, yet I would bet that office would say “no” to the question, “Do you engage in virtual volunteering?”
  • the elements for success in virtual volunteering are still largely the same as they have been for the last 20 years. What hasn’t changed? The importance of creating volunteering tasks that have real impact, of frequent communications with volunteers, of showing volunteers what impact their contributions have had, and of showing senior management at an organization what impact virtual volunteering is having. I’m relatively sure these recommendations will never change, even as technology does.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 14 Apr 17
     
    article by Jayne Cravens, February 20, 2015 on virtual volunteering moving from asynchronous to synchronous interactions, virtual identities including pictures, lack of recognition by some nonprofits of how they are using virtual volunteers.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Don't Forget Volunteers as Part of the Solution to 2017 Nonprofit Challenges | Energize... - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 06 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • “Staffing, workflow, finance and fundraising will be the trends to watch in nonprofit operations during 2017 when it comes to charities and associations.”
  • “The Limitations of Seeing Volunteers Only as Unpaid Staff,”
  • volunteers are seen as ancillary, not central.
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  • direct invitation, not a Facebook post.)
  • clustering” – banding together to share resources or determining specialties.
  • Skilled volunteers can be integral to these developments, both to guide the learning management systems necessary and to present a wide array of professional development and public education programs.
  • support prevention rather than “bandages.” Point funders to volunteer work that brings about change and the finances needed to grow that work.  
  • screen applicants with experience solely in the corporate world for whether or not they also have a history of charitable giving and volunteering?
  • NPTimes foresees a surge in new training programs and certification opportunities, as well as nonprofits moving towards offering education to the general public to generate revenue.
  • Separate tasks that can legitimately be delegated to competent volunteers as their only role
  • Volunteers, however, can be advocates. They can speak out and be heard in more effective ways because (most of the time) they do not personally benefit from the outcome.
  • Marching and public protest are core activist tactics. But, the true potential for volunteerism is that many people are looking for how they can have a voice and affect decisions to come.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 06 Feb 17
     
    blog post by Susan J. Ellis, Energize, February 2017, great post for helping volunteers thrive in moving org mission
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Online Communities Depend on Online Volunteers - NTEN - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 14 Apr 17 - No Cached
  • “online communities” – the thousands of discussion forums allowing like-minded people to find one another, keep in touch, and share information. Most often these online communities are started by one or two highly motivated and unpaid individuals (aided by the amazing availability of free platforms to host such groups), and participation by all subscribers is intentional and voluntary. They operate on the principle of exchange, since if everyone lurks and never posts, no helpful ideas can emerge.
  • I asked them about how they worked with online volunteers and at first they said they didn’t have any.  Naturally, I soon changed their perception. In fact, NTEN depends on the freely donated time and skills of its involved members.
  • Why is it important to recognize this quasi-invisible workforce? Because seeing and valuing the volunteer nature of this service will let you appreciate and strengthen it. Further, it’s possible to apply the principles of volunteer management to make such volunteer participation easier and more productive. For example:
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  • Recruit More Volunteers
  • Give Volunteers the Information and Tools They Need
  • Monitor Work
  • Say Thanks Often and Sincerely
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 14 Apr 17
     
    article by Susan Ellis on virtual volunteering, 2014. Emphasizes that nonprofits do not recognize that they have virtual volunteers writing blog posts, maintaining websites, and doing many other tasks at a distance.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Why So Few Baby Boomers Are Volunteering - Forbes - 0 views

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  • According to the Volunteering in the United States survey, “providing professional or management assistance, including serving on a board or committee” is the second most popular form of volunteering for Americans over 55, after “collecting, preparing, distributing or serving food.”
  • ey’re increasingly targeting boomers with what’s known as “skills-based volunteering” opportunities whose jobs are valued at $40 to $500 an hour, far more than traditional volunteering’s $18 to $20 an hour, according to a blog post by Emily Ferstie of United Way for Southeastern Michigan.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 08 Jul 16
     
    drop in boomer age group for volunteering, they are wanting to use their career skills. BEST in Hollywood, FL is working to create a focused engagement: 50 boomer volunteers to train 500 unemployed and underemployed people and run a job fair within 18 months
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The New Way to Recruit Skilled Volunteers on VolunteerMatch | Engaging Volunteers - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 17 Apr 17 - No Cached
  • Corporations are interested in making skilled volunteering a larger piece of their community involvement activities, and companies like Microsoft, HP, American Express and The Gap are publically and actively building more skills-based and pro bono volunteering programs.
  • The skilled volunteering movement is also growing among individuals – organizations like Taproot Foundation and Catchafire have joined VolunteerMatch to connect skilled volunteers directly with nonprofit projects, and they are growing by leaps and bounds.
  • standardized taxonomy of skills that volunteers possess and that nonprofits search for.
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  • The result of the process was 19 over-arching categories of skills, and between 3 and 11 sub-categories under each one.
  • Here are the 19 main categories:
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Reddit: Don't Leave Your Volunteer Moderators Lonely, Either: Associations Now - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 07 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • It’s clear here that reddit—a site that is pretty much nothing but community—faces the same kinds of disconnects between executives and ground-level support that happen in associations where communities are only small parts of the total member offerings.
  • Reddit highlights how harmful a poorly handled staff transition can be for these volunteers.
  • When it comes down to it, an online community is about people, not just technology. And keeping that trust between community managers and the community at large is hugely important.
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  • Respect Your Volunteers A few weeks back, my colleague Joe Rominiecki made the case that we need to show that we’re supporting our community managers, who may be playing an important role without a ton of support.
  • “For those that host online communities for their members, the new front-line staff may very well be the person managing the online community,” he explained before hopping into The Community Roundtable’s latest “State of Community Management” report.
  • It’s clear here that reddit—a site that is pretty much nothing but community—faces the same kinds of disconnects between executives and ground-level support that happen in associations where communities are only small parts of the total member offerings.
  • The ripple effects of what happened to Taylor only highlight this. Because of the role people near the front lines play in keeping a community moving, they often have tribes of their own, and those tribes may instill a high level of passion among your most active community members—your moderators.
  • Because of the role people near the front lines play in keeping a community moving, they often have tribes of their own, and those tribes may instill a high level of passion among your most active community members—your moderators.
  • “Everything about which Reddit talks a big game—curbing abuse, protecting free speech, being the ‘front page of the Internet’—is directly tied to a model of content curation over which the company has little authority.”
  • tied to a model of content curation over which the company has little authority.”
  • In other words, volunteer moderators hold huge amounts of control, despite not getting a paycheck. They deserve to know what’s going on, and you have to keep them happy.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 07 Jul 15
     
    Interesting assessment of the value of volunteer moderators, July 7, 2015, by Ernie Smith on Reddit
Lisa Levinson

Get Involved | Join Our Online Community for Women | Live Your Dream - 0 views

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  • Lisa Levinson on 21 Apr 14
     
    Soroptomist's volunteer online community entitled Live Your Dream.org that matches volunteers with volunteer opportunities within the Soroptimist focus: women's economic empowerment, ending violence against women, fighting human trafficking.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Energize Turns 40! | Energize: Volunteer Management Resources for Directors of Volunteers - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 03 Mar 17
     
    Ellis' 40th anniversary reflects on challenges and opportunities volunteer management
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

An Old-School Method for New Member Engagement: Associations Now - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 13 Jun 14
     
    Blog post by Joe Rominiecki, June 11, 2014, on how staid organization--American Neurological Association--changed admission requirements and found new-"old ways" to engage with younger, newer members in the course of the first year of membership. 300 out of 1,880 at end of 2013 were new, often younger members. ""We have quite a few committees, and the committee work is a lot. The annual meeting programming is extremely scientific, so their participation in our interactive lunch workshop committee or our faculty development committee or our scientific programming committee is critical to the success of the meeting," Smith says." Excerpt: I'm a strong believer that the type of volunteering offered to young members is crucial, too. It has to be meaningful work. If I'm offered a choice between joining a group for young professionals or joining a planning committee for a particular association function (event, publication, education, etc.), I'll take the latter. I'd rather not just be lumped in with other young pros, fenced off in a separate little play area. I want to be doing some real work for the association. And DTV says I'm not alone: In that study, "I can do something for a profession or cause that is important to me" ranked as the most important reason for volunteering in associations, and that was true for all generations.""
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Wildlife Volunteer Projects and Tours | The Great Projects - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 01 Jun 15
     
    projects for volunteering/touring in exotic locales around the world
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Reddit's most powerful members are holding the site hostage | The Verge - 0 views

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  • AMA sessions are the jewel in Reddit's crown. The interviews are conducted with individuals and groups from all walks of life, from presidents, to pop stars, to people with two penises, and act as a carrot to attract people who might otherwise by put off by the site's insular in-jokes and questionable subcultures. Without Taylor to act as a buffer, sifting through questions and writing up replies as they were originally stated, it's easy to imagine AMAs in which PR teams can cherry-pick questions and mete out bland responses.
  • AMA sessions are the jewel in Reddit's crown. The interviews are conducted with individuals and groups from all walks of life, from presidents, to pop stars, to people with two penises, and act as a carrot to attract people who might otherwise by put off by the site's insular in-jokes and questionable subcultures. Without Taylor to act as a buffer, sifting through questions and writing up replies as they were originally stated, it's easy to imagine AMAs in which PR teams can cherry-pick questions and mete out bland responses. AMAs done right make notable figures appear personable; done badly, they can shred a public image.
  • ong-running feeling among their number that Reddit does not value their work or communicate effectively.
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  • As much as Victoria is loved, this reaction is not all a result of her departure: there is a feeling among many of the moderators of reddit that the admins do not respect the work that is put in by the thousands of unpaid volunteers who maintain the communities of the 9,656 active subreddits, which they feel is expressed by, among other things, the lack of communication between them and the admins, and their disregard of the thousands of mods who keep reddit's communities going.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 07 Jul 15
     
    Interesting article on how Reddit fired a popular staff person who facilitated the AMA (Ask Me Anything) guests going into different subreddit communities without notifying volunteer moderators of these communities ahead of time. Volunteer moderators closed their communities except to passworded members to show their unhappiness with Reddit executives' lack of early communication, etc. by Rich McCormick, July 2, 2015. Communities reopened within a couple of days.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Volunteer Management: Leading From the CEO Suite: Associations Now - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 16 Feb 16
     
    article by Mark Athitakis on volunteer management from CEO role in association, February 8, 2016
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Evaluating Online Activities - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 23 Feb 17
     
    real measures of how online social activities yield offline results in who volunteers for you, how many volunteer who is donating and repeat donating, downloading your reports, attending events, more clients being served, comments on your work by people who matter to you, perceptions of greater support for org, etc.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Identifying and Creating Assignments for Online Volunteers | Serviceleader.org - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 23 Feb 17
     
    nonprofit on virtual volunteering with sample assignments
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

About us | UNV Online Volunteering service - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 23 Feb 17
     
    UN online volunteering opportunities--looks easy enough to get involved
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Advocate companion: The ARC Tampa Bay for people with intellectual and developmental di... - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 24 Feb 17
     
    virtual volunteer role description with About, Skills, Good Match for, Requirements & commitment on Volunteer Match
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

National - Minnesota Association for Volunteer Administration - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 03 Mar 17
     
    national conference of volunteer leaders promoted by Susan Ellis
Lisa Levinson

http://www.core4women.org - 1 views

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  • Lisa Levinson on 02 Aug 13
     
    CORE4Women is a free organization where women can share and discover online learning. From their website: Why CORE4Women? Traditional websites are a one-way flow of information from a computer to an end-user. CORE4Women is a live, interactive discussion among women about online learning. There are volunteers who have life experiences that have been significantly influenced by online learning. These volunteers want to mentor and share their experiences with other women. There are also scholarships available to members enrolled in fully online programs!
  • Lisa Levinson on 02 Aug 13
     
    CORE4Women provides a way for mentors to dialogue directly with women who are looking for answers about online learning. These mentors can explain how to locate degree programs, how to seek funding, how to register, how to engage with others in the online environment, and how to balance many responsibilities while completing course work.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 23 Sep 13
     
    Great resource by Idealware for nonprofits to use to use social media well for different purposes such as events, outreach, volunteer recruitment, etc. Oddly, professional development or learning by staff/volunteers/across organizational boundaries is not mentioned. Wonder if we should reach out to Idealware's authors to discuss adding another section to guide next year?
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