waugaman Michael Waugaman
Jaikus from waugaman
Friday, 28 March 2008
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
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I'm UK based, too. I manage the Volunteer Centre in Slough (hence my interest in the topic. I've dealt with Local Authority staff & leave time for volunteering but not with higher levels of civil service - don't know where you fall in that spectrum.
Presentation went ok today - but I came up against a issue that I did anticipate - and it's also included in your definition above. By 'Supported Volunteering' I was referring to the practice of consciously putting resources in place (usually human and usually volunteer) to allow (a) volunteer(s) to overcome a major identifiable barrier to participating in what may be consider mainstream volunteering.
An oversimplified example would be having one volunteer who's role was to help another volunteer with learning difficulties (the barrier) to complete tasks associated with a particular volunteering role. A more subtle scenario might be training 2 or 3 existing staff in a local charity shop in mentoring/befriending skills in order to ensure that a volunteer from a BME community with below average language feels comfortable and supported.
Your defn was an example of good practice with what is often termed Employer Supported Volunteering. To be honest the problem is not with your way of thinking but with the choice made a few years ago to use the term 'Supported Volunteering'. Some people refer to the practice as Assisted or Enabling Volunteering.
If it's any consolation every one of my participants in today's workshop thought as you do which suggests that the issue is with 'my' side of things and not yours ;-)
Sorry if this has been long winded but I am very grateful that you took the time to respond!
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thanks for the reply & good response! just out of interest, does your employer give you time off to become a more rounded person thru volunteering?
Monday, 17 March 2008
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@constantine so it's all down to walled gardens? will open social make a difference? or what about all the varoius so-called socmed aggregators? you may have something in that user engagement is what drives any social app regardless of its functionality. email is still relatively basic but v popular.
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ok, so we like the ui best. what about the community? has jaiku attracted a different group with different interests? or are the discussions happening here as 'over there'?
Sunday, 16 March 2008
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anyone have any thoughts about pownce?
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the threads are forcing me to rethink browsing habit as I've been twittering nonstop for couple of weeks. twitter has alot of nonprofit techies which is (one of) my thing(s)
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what do you think the differences are between jaiku and the others? topics/themes? participants? something else?
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Thanks all especially topgold - i hope we never fall into the unfortunate habit of abbreviating the name of that club!
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whoa! friends! how'd that happen? tell me about yourselves!
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