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    Thanks, Kevin for focusing on volunteer coordination.<br>
    <br>
    For all other working groups besides, Volunteer Coordination WG,
    please make sure your WG has told Kevin WHO YOUR WG VOL COORDINATION
    contact is.  This is REALLY IMPORTANT.  We can't help you get
    volunteers, if we don't know who your WG Vol Coordinator is.  We
    need to make sure that these volunteers are actually being
    on-boarded and "cared for".  We've had WAY too many volunteers get
    "lost" because email-LISTS is the only avenue we have to send you
    vols... (as opposed to an actual individual or a main WG email that
    someone is checking every day. When we send them to those lists,
    everyone on the list assumes that the other guy is taking care of
    the volunteer inquiry.  And then no one gets back to them.  I helped
    avoid a lot of that dead-ending by telling the inquiry to get back
    to me if no one contacted them "soon".  But it's not a great
    solution.<br>
    <br>
    If you're not part of the Volunteer Coordination WG, no need to read
    the rest of this. Just get your WG Vol Contact to Kevin, so he (or
    I) can post them all on the Volunteer Coordination page.  If you
    have different needs than are already listed on the Participate
    page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Participate">http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Participate</a>, send them to
    Kevin, so we can update them.  Or do it yourself.  If you haven't
    listed your needs, and posted a contact for who is coordinating vols
    in your group, then it's not fair to blame us for not coordinating
    vols "perfectly".  We need your help so we can help you.<br>
    <br>
    Kevin,<br>
    <br>
    May I suggest a couple of modifications to your email below
    outlining your approach for gathering of volunteer needs?<br>
    My aim is to allow volunteers and working groups to "self-manage" as
    much as possible.<br>
    <br>
    Currently, the "volunteer" link from the main page goes to the
    "Participate" page on the wiki, allowing you the ability to
    change/make updates.  That appears to be an excellent (aka existing)
    fulcrum for adding links to the volunteer coordinators for each
    working group, and subsequently for groups that have a long list of
    detailed needs, to the Vol Coordination wiki page for specific to
    those WG.<br>
    <br>
    Lefty (IT) will be making up a main page for all of the lists of
    working groups to choose from with an easy/automated way for vols to
    submit their "applications".  But until that's available, perhaps
    this approach would work. It's the path that I started working on
    and may provide a short term solution.<br>
    <br>
    1. Database for contacts.  Keeping a central "volunteer contact
    database", using a popular format like Excel, and which allows
    several people to have access has obvious benefits.  I encourage you
    to integrate it in with the original volunteer contact database that
    IT/media were maintaining in the early weeks with at least 1,000
    counts, if we can locate that.  I never found it.  So we
    (Theresa/Lisa/I) started from scratch.  To download the contacts
    from the <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:volunteeroccupybos@gmail.com">volunteeroccupybos@gmail.com</a> box, please write to me
    privately for instructions.  Theresa had intended to download those,
    and sort through and catalog the skills, but had not gotten to it. 
    She may still want to help with this.  <br>
    <br>
    2. Skills/Interests.  See attached for what we were using at the
    InfoTent in the early days to gather info about what specific
    interests new volunteers had. In a private email, I'll also send to
    you and Martin (the media working group volunteer coordinator) the
    file that Media was maintaining in the early days on their own. 
    There are names/contact info in that, that I didn't want to send
    around to all of the groups.  We didn't get to the point at the
    InfoTent of getting that all coordinated, because the InfoDesk
    suddenly disappeared and all of my documentation disappeared when
    Paul moved the InfoDesk to the InfoTent and left me without my
    books, clipboards, and piles of volunteer signups.  That being
    behind us, I'll move on.<br>
    <br>
    3. Integrating the volunteer contact database with the "daily
    digest" contact database and using the master to link the to the
    updated volunteer list seems an excellent idea.  In an ideal world,
    we'd have a "sign up" for mailing page where people could choose the
    various mailings.  But in the meantime...we work with what we have. 
    <br>
    <br>
    4. Wiki Vol Pages.  Each of the WG's already have wikis.  They can
    have their own WG Vol page, as well, which will allow people an easy
    way to update needs lists. And it will allow the Volunteer
    Coordination WG page to link to all of them.   You or someone/anyone
    can summarize those and put those into the main "Participate" page
    as a way to lure new volunteers to the detailed working group
    volunteer pages.  <br>
    <br>
    I do hope you're able to implement a process whereby the WG Vol
    Coordinators "automagically" update their wiki pages w/vol needs
    every so often, or I suppose maybe you're going to do that
    updating.  Either way, I hope that the info is available publicly so
    that vols can manage themselves as much as possible.  When things
    get busy, and when we get back to recruiting wholesale, there can be
    hundreds/day.<br>
    <br>
    I also maintain an online database that allows organizations to list
    their needs and match between orgs.  But that may be excessive for
    the job that we're talking about here at this one site.<br>
    <br>
    I'm off to update the WG Wiki pages with the WG's email contacts...
    and will be back to you when I've run out of things to do on that,
    so see how far you've gotten...in the hopes I can help further.<br>
    <br>
    Terra<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    On 11/10/2011 10:24 AM, Kevin Maley wrote:
    <blockquote
cite="mid:CAOd-vLiAecwsN2jscRoQ1eamtfUcuNgjjGYwNT9usk9HRcHavw@mail.gmail.com"
      type="cite">Hi everyone,
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>Just wanted to provide some context here.</div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>To address volunteer needs, last week I began encouraging
        visitors to the Info Tent to leave their e-mail addresses, and
        beginning Sunday started sending out a "Daily Digest" who's core
        purpose is to direct volunteers to Occupy Boston, with news
        updates/calendar of events as dressing around the volunteer
        needs.</div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>We have had a number of Occupiers request to receive it as
        well, and I add them to the e-mail list as the requests come in.
        Aria I can add you onto it for tomorrow's send off, as well as
        anyone else who wants to be on. Media made the decision to put
        them on the website on a few days ago, which I think is a
        terrific idea. </div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>To help figure out next steps on the digest and other
        volunteer efforts, a group of us are meeting tomorrow at 10am by
        the media tent as a kind of ad hoc volunteer coordination group.
        We will be discussing ideas such as adding a feature to the
        website to auto-subscribe to these e-mails.</div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>I will make sure everyone is kept in the loop on the outcome
        of this meeting. For now I really want to emphasize that <b>if
          you are seeking volunteers</b> for your working group or other
        Occupy Boston needs, please send me a 1-3 sentence description
        (very brief) with contact information. I can include that in a
        daily digest and hopefully direct people your way. We are also
        looking to highlight events (such as an FSU lecture). </div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>I would also encourage people to get the word out on the
        daily digest, especially for external audiences, so we can get
        as broad a reach as possible and therefore increase impact.
        Please let people know for the time being they can e-mail
        <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:InfoTent@OccupyBoston.org">InfoTent@OccupyBoston.org</a> to request subscription</div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>thanks</div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>Kevin</div>
      <div><br>
        <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Aria
          Littlhous <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:aria@littlhous.net">aria@littlhous.net</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
          <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt
            0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);
            padding-left: 1ex;">I believe it is automatically generated
            once the text goes on to the website, that means the people
            responsible are Meda. OBIT, on the other hand, would be
            responsible for putting a sign up form on the websites side
            bar.
            <div>
              <div class="h5"><br>
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                <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:44
                  AM, Theresa E <span dir="ltr"><<a
                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:theresa.m.earle@gmail.com"
                      target="_blank">theresa.m.earle@gmail.com</a>></span>
                  wrote:<br>
                  <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt
                    0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204,
                    204); padding-left: 1ex;">
                    Who sends out the daily digest? <br>
                    <br>
                    <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at
                      9:34 AM, Aria Littlhous <span dir="ltr"><<a
                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                          href="mailto:aria@littlhous.net"
                          target="_blank">aria@littlhous.net</a>></span>
                      wrote:<br>
                      <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt
                        0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204,
                        204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
                        It would be great if people could figure out how
                        to sign up for the Daily Digest from their
                        home/computer station.
                        <div>
                          <div><br>
                            <br>
                            <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 10,
                              2011 at 9:20 AM, Katie Gradowski <span
                                dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:katie.gradowski@gmail.com" target="_blank">katie.gradowski@gmail.com</a>></span>
                              wrote:<br>
                              <blockquote class="gmail_quote"
                                style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;
                                border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204,
                                204); padding-left: 1ex;">sorry!  
                                didn't read that carefully.   you
                                clearly already know that!
                                <div>
                                  <div><br>
                                    <br>
                                    <div class="gmail_quote">
                                      On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:18 AM,
                                      Katie Gradowski <span dir="ltr"><<a
                                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          href="mailto:katie.gradowski@gmail.com"
                                          target="_blank">katie.gradowski@gmail.com</a>></span>
                                      wrote:<br>
                                      <blockquote class="gmail_quote"
                                        style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt
                                        0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid
                                        rgb(204, 204, 204);
                                        padding-left: 1ex;">It's through
                                        the info tent.   You can email
                                        Kevin at <a
                                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          href="mailto:infotent@occupyboston.org"
                                          target="_blank">infotent@occupyboston.org</a>
                                        to sign up.
                                        <div>
                                          <div><br>
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                                            <div class="gmail_quote">
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                                                204); padding-left:
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                                                <div>Can OBIT tell us
                                                  how many people are
                                                  receiving the DD now?
                                                  So we can check
                                                  numbers later? </div>
                                                <div><br>
                                                </div>
                                                <div>THANKS.</div>
                                                <div><br>
                                                </div>
                                                <font color="#888888">
                                                  <div>Aria</div>
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