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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>
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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>
<br>
<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>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote
class="gmail_quote"
style="margin: 0pt 0pt
0pt 0.8ex; border-left:
1px solid rgb(204, 204,
204); padding-left:
1ex;">
<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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