Answers to the following questions:
- What factors in your organization have promoted the success of
your virtual volunteering program?
- What factors in your organization have impeded the success of
your virtual volunteering program?
- America Online
- On-site orientations, policies and procedures posted,
establishing a sense of community within the volunteer sector, rapid
advancement in online roles is often a factor as well.
- Communication (left hand, right hand)
Under 18's often posing as adults
Disruptive members harrassing volunteers
- Chebucto Community Net
- There are lots of tie-ins between the volunteers
from different sections of the network, this keeps
people aware of all the happenings of the Network,
not necessarily being involved in all of them but
lending a hand whenever necessary..
- There was and probably still is a little bit of
seperation between the volunteers and the ip's
(editors etc.) and this tends to be a bit of a
disadvantage but everything is being tied in now and
it seems to be doing fine and getting better..
- Community Wire Service
- Concentric Media
- Fantastic Exec Dir who loves to call people herself!
Foundation funding for Outreach.
Support of WLO leaders.
Ideological match with targets.
- Volunteers are VERY busy people
PBS sites are VERY slow or fail to respond to viewer inquiries.
some staff burnout after major project launch.
IMO, Consultant hire policy, rather than staff employees...this has allowed
too much flexibility in hours worked.
- Diversity University, Inc. *
- durham county literacy council
- Staff are pretty technology literate and so
overworked that we were open to any and all ways of expanding volunteer
involvement - we are also in an area where most of our volunteers work and
wanted a way to reach them that was time-efficient
- No outside financial support, lots of skepticism from
potential outside agency partners with whom we must work
- Field of Dreams
- Free Our Parks and Forests
- Access to Internet tools and resources
- Incipience of our organization - lack of policies and
structures
- Globewide Network Academy
- Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network
- Getting buyin from my supervisor to work with
"unseen" volunteers was crucial. He insisted they come in for one on-site
meeting so he could "see" they were real. I also required weekly updates on
their projects via email, and made sure my supervisor saw their completed
work.
- Other staff don't think these people are "real" because
they don't see them; they also aren't involved in our org's Internet
activities, so they don't really see that online activities and virtual
volunteer management is actually "work."
- NetNoir, Inc.
- Northland Public Library
- On-site orientations and personal conversations with
volunteers and clients.
- Lack of qualified volunteers periodically.
- Ronald McDonald House
- WE HOPE IT WORKS!
- AT THE BEGINNING SOME MEMBERS OF THE STAFF WERE NOT
VERY MOTIVATED WITH THIS IDEA BUT NOW THEY ARE VERY INTRESTED AND REALY
WANT THIS TO WORK.
- Seednet
- Technology Assistance for Special Consumers
- United Way of Okaloosa & Walton COunties
- WEST Ltd
* Diversity University, Inc. responded twice, on March 8, 1997 and
April 28, 1997, but their responses to these questions were the
same both times.
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