Comments on: Social networking for voluntary groups http://alexlittle.net/blog/2008/07/16/social-networking-for-voluntary-groups/ Mon, 21 May 2012 14:06:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Andy http://alexlittle.net/blog/2008/07/16/social-networking-for-voluntary-groups/comment-page-1/#comment-1840 Andy Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:54:20 +0000 http://alexlittle.net/blog/?p=407#comment-1840 Hi there, I was just reading your blog on the Volunteer Passport and I thought I would share my experience of the facility. I've just recently joined BTCV a week ago and one of the first things that was mentioned was the passport. I'm currently with BTCV in Glasgow. I find it quite handy to have the passport, even if it maybe doesn't lead to anything solid in the end, it's still really nice to be able to have my experiences and daily projects logged and kept online. I think it has a great potential to be something very productive for BTCV if not volunteering as a whole. As you said, it also has a potential of being a social network, I think it would be really good to be able to share experiences with other volunteers around the UK. Volunteering is surprisingly a difficult thing to find when you don't know where to look - in my case Project Scotland helped me - and is even the same when you're doing the voluntary work. Support and further development is something that can be readily and quickly shared among volunteers. I hope the MVP is kept running as it has some great ideas and potential to it. Andrew http://extrakt-volunteer.blogspot.com/ Hi there,

I was just reading your blog on the Volunteer Passport and I thought I would share my experience of the facility. I’ve just recently joined BTCV a week ago and one of the first things that was mentioned was the passport. I’m currently with BTCV in Glasgow.

I find it quite handy to have the passport, even if it maybe doesn’t lead to anything solid in the end, it’s still really nice to be able to have my experiences and daily projects logged and kept online.

I think it has a great potential to be something very productive for BTCV if not volunteering as a whole. As you said, it also has a potential of being a social network, I think it would be really good to be able to share experiences with other volunteers around the UK. Volunteering is surprisingly a difficult thing to find when you don’t know where to look – in my case Project Scotland helped me – and is even the same when you’re doing the voluntary work. Support and further development is something that can be readily and quickly shared among volunteers.

I hope the MVP is kept running as it has some great ideas and potential to it.

Andrew

http://extrakt-volunteer.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Alex http://alexlittle.net/blog/2008/07/16/social-networking-for-voluntary-groups/comment-page-1/#comment-1164 Alex Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:57:36 +0000 http://alexlittle.net/blog/?p=407#comment-1164 Hi Martin, Tony mentioned SocialLearn too, and yes, I can see how it would be good to use SocialLearn. However, BTCV doesn't have loads of technical resources (people or money) they can put on these projects and with SocialLearn being so new (and immature) it may be just too much work/effort for them. Though if someone wants to spend some time looking at how SocialLearn could be used in this way then I'm sure no-one would say no! :-) A Hi Martin, Tony mentioned SocialLearn too, and yes, I can see how it would be good to use SocialLearn. However, BTCV doesn’t have loads of technical resources (people or money) they can put on these projects and with SocialLearn being so new (and immature) it may be just too much work/effort for them. Though if someone wants to spend some time looking at how SocialLearn could be used in this way then I’m sure no-one would say no! :-)
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]]> By: Martin http://alexlittle.net/blog/2008/07/16/social-networking-for-voluntary-groups/comment-page-1/#comment-1163 Martin Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:54:11 +0000 http://alexlittle.net/blog/?p=407#comment-1163 SocialLearn? SocialLearn?

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