All Entries Tagged With: "Volunteers"
Info You Can Use: Cost of Volunteering
Hopefully if I have planned well, the next post you see will be written by me upon my return from vacation. I have sort of saved the best for last. In this 2005 entry, I covered a study about the costs and benefits of volunteering. I think the topic is still very relevant because people [...]
Volunteering Your Way to #1
I was listening to Andrew Taylor’s interview with Artsjournal.com founder/editor Doug McLennan today. During the interview McLennan mentioned all the ways in which organizations were creating online communities to help them achieve things. One of the ways he mentioned people’s contributions were rewarded was via a ranking system to show who had been most productive. [...]
Neither Carrot Nor Stick Does Creativity Make
A couple links as complement to my entry yesterday on motivation, customer service and volunteers. First, Americans for the Arts, hearing President Obama’s call for Americans to volunteer more has created a website at which people can share their stories, pictures and videos – United We Serve. A newly posted video on TED.com has Dan [...]
A Folding Table, A Jug of Water and Thou Sweating In The Parking Lot
I am reading a book about customer service right now. My intention is to report some observations on the text as a whole at some point. However, I saw an illustration of one of the points made in an early chapter today. The book had noted the veracity of “time flies when you are having [...]
Interesting Thoughts From Other Places
Read some good stuff today on two blogs that really can’t be improved upon by any commentary I can offer so read on— The Nonprofiteer had some sage advice in a recent entry regarding recruiting people to fill volunteer roles be it a board member or ticket taker — recruit in pairs. The two-by-two recommendation [...]