Guest Post Paula Gagnon
As Chair of the Commission for Community Service (Maine) I understand how distance, time and weather contribute to our challenge in communicating and getting together. Each year we cancel at least one meeting of the Commission due to weather and some months making a quorum is a challenge. There are some [...]
Category Archives: Technology
Six Requirements for Managing Volunteers
April 30, 2008 – 7:06 am
What Does Blogging Have to Do With Volunteer Management?
April 8, 2008 – 7:05 am
I currently subscribe to over a hundred blogs on topics such as nonprofit management, education, business, entertainment, the environment, literature, and politics. I even subscribe to blogs about blogging! But three years ago, I didn’t even know what a blog was.
I know that many of you are new to the concept of blogging, just like [...]
Boomer Managers, Ignore Millennials at Your Own Risk
April 8, 2008 – 7:04 am
The baby boomer demographic is the hot topic in volunteer management these days, but we are missing an opportunity of equal proportions if we fail to consider the impact of millennials, those young adults born after 1980, in the volunteer sector.
The business magazine Fast Company offers an image that puts multi-generational demographics into perspective: picture [...]
The Greater Good of Blogging
April 6, 2008 – 7:03 am
In the three weeks since this blog has launched we’ve seen a diverse snapshot of topics from across the field of volunteer management in New Jersey. Hot topics, burning issues, scorching successes…we’ve learned from them all.
Blogging is not only an enjoyable conversation among peers, but also an excellent tool for sharing knowledge and adding value [...]
Does Every Volunteer Program Need a Blog?
April 1, 2008 – 7:00 am
Over at Problogger, Suzanne Falter-Barns asks “Have Blogs Killed Conventional Websites?”
Meanwhile, Jason Preston of Blog Business Summit explains why every business should have a blog. Jason says, “If you wrote a blog about the ins and outs of trucking, and people who were interested in trucks (or being a truck driver) could find the answers [...]
