[Ob-media-multi] [Ob-media-external] Spreadsheet: What Do We Need People to Volunteer For?

Deborah Sirotkin Butler amberpaw at gmail.com
Mon Mar 12 11:44:44 EDT 2012


What about "Media Organizer"?  DSB

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Joshua Eaton <jeaton at post.harvard.edu>wrote:

> Although I describe myself as a "Media volunteer" whenever I speak with
> the press.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Farhad Ebrahimi <farhad at occupyboston.org
> > wrote:
>
>> Agreed. What we're looking for are "participants" or something like that,
>> only more exciting sounding.
>>
>> ADVENTURERS.
>>
>> Probably not, but you get the idea.
>>
>> Best,
>> -- Farhad
>>
>> On Mar 11, 2012, at 11:59 PM, Eli wrote:
>>
>>  Thanks Josh. Added another item.
>>
>> Question though: aren't we all "volunteers?" I'm increasingly feeling
>> like we're trying to operate under a traditional nonprofit organizational
>> model, when in fact what we need is not traditional volunteers, but more
>> dedicated working members. Of course, there are some folks who can only
>> commit a very small amount of time per week, but we shouldn't think of them
>> as volunteers, as though they were ancillary to the group, but rather a
>> full members with serious commitment constraints.
>>
>> Mostly semantics, but I think the language we're using is shaping the way
>> we're thinking about this effort in a counterproductive way. The big issue
>> is that we need to increase our collective capacity by bringing in more
>> dedicated people.
>>
>> Eli
>>
>> On 3/11/12 6:48 PM, Joshua Eaton wrote:
>>
>> Dear Folks,
>>
>>  As promised long ago, I've created a spreadsheet for us to brainstorm
>> what we need volunteers for:
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al2LIEgoNIx2dEpXTW9nYXk2ZzhmQW44LW5aQVRZaUE#gid=0
>>
>>  Please use it!
>>
>>  Best,
>> Joshua
>>
>>  --
>> Joshua A. Eaton, MDiv
>>
>> Founder, *Dana Wiki: Helping Buddhist Organizations Get Involved in
>> Social Service* <http://www.danawiki.org/>
>>
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>> jeaton at post.harvard.edu
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