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4 Steps to Grow Your Volunteer Program with LinkedIn
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Learn how to use LinkedIn and a free VolunteerMatch tool to extend your online recruitment reach to millions of potential volunteers on LinkedIn. |
Volunteer Recruitment, VolunteerMatch, On-line Volunteer Recruitment, VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources
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LinkedIn, social media, Recruitment
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Best Practices for Recruiting Online
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Watch Jennifer Bennett, Training Manager from VolunteerMatch, talk about the key things you need to do to be sure your volunteer opportunities get noticed on VolunteerMatch.org. |
On-line Volunteer Recruitment, VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources
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Brave New World of Engaging Skilled Volunteers
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Have you thought about how volunteers with specific skills could help ? This 50 minute webinar by VolunteerMatch and LinkedIn For Good to learn why skilled volunteerism is important, and how to use VolunteerMatch and LinkedIn's partnership to make your volunteer opportunities available and visible to potential volunteers on both sites. |
Volunteer Recruitment, Capacity Building, Millenials, On-line Volunteer Recruitment, VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources
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VolunteerMatch, Volunteer Recruitment, LinkedIn
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Build a Better Volunteer Engagement Program
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Brush off the cobwebs, clean out the closets, and check for cracks. Have you ever wondered if your volunteer engagement program is using all of the current best practices? This training will review and discuss important program components such as interviews, orientations, volunteer handbooks, risk management and more. Sample program documents will be provided as well as a program assessment checklist to help you evaluate your existing program. |
Volunteer Handbooks, Engaging High Impact Volunteers, On-line Volunteer Recruitment, VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources
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Recruitment, management
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Going Virtual: Recruiting and Engaging Volunteers Online (Tutorial)
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This tutorial will give you a basic overview of two tools for recruiting and engaging volunteers online: Facebook and Meetup. Each offers its own advantages and disadvantages, but both can help you use the web to target the types of volunteers you want and help you engage your current volunteer base. |
On-line Volunteer Recruitment
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Social Media and Volunteer Engagement
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What do you need to know about social media as a volunteer program manager? How can you use sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to promote your library’s volunteer program and recruit volunteers? This one hour archived webinar offers an introduction to social media and some of the most popular sites, along with how other libraries are using social networks to increase their impact. |
Volunteer Recruitment, Engaging High Impact Volunteers, On-line Volunteer Recruitment, VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources
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Successful Volunteer Recruitment Strategies for Baby Boomers & Generations that Follow
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This is a one hour archived webinar presented by Carla Lehn in February, 2012. Presenter slides and handouts are available at the link below. Do you ever wonder what motivates volunteers? Are you wondering where to find talented volunteers? What projects or programs do you have that will attract them? Baby boomers and the generations that follow are seeking new ways to use their skills and experience to make a difference in their communities. Your library is uniquely positioned to benefit from these volunteers. This webinar provides tools, techniques, and models for volunteer engagement. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will: Understand the potential for engaging high impact, skilled volunteers to assist public libraries. Know how to engage this talent to extend the library’s capacity in the community and to benefit from these new library advocates and supporters. Understand the motivations behind why people volunteer. Be able to create diverse and meaningful skilled volunteer positions that will attract a broad range of community volunteers, especially baby boomers. Plan to implement a variety of successful volunteer recruitment strategies that go far beyond the “Volunteer Here” sign on the Circulation Desk. ; |
Volunteer Recruitment, Baby Boomers, Engaging High Impact Volunteers, On-line Volunteer Recruitment
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Volunteer Recruitment, Skilled Volunteers, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millenials
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Tutorial - The Get Involved Widget
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Posting the widget on your library's home page will provide a service to your patrons and increase the number of "hits" on your posted VolunteerMatch opportunities. In this 2.5 minute video learn about how it works and how to install it. |
Volunteer Recruitment, On-line Volunteer Recruitment, VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources
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Recruitment
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VolunteerMatch "Tour" - with Carla Lehn
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This is a recording of an online meeting "Tour" provided for two new California library participants on December 17, 2015. You can both hear Carla talking and see what she's doing on her desktop as she gives you a tour of how VolunteerMatch works, and provides some tips and tricks to help you make the most of your VolunteerMatch account. It's about 40 minutes long. |
On-line Volunteer Recruitment, VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources
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Why the Widget?
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Brief FAQ about why you want to post the "Get Involved" widget on your library's website for maximum volunteer recruitment opportunities. |
VolunteerMatch, On-line Volunteer Recruitment, VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources
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Recruitment, online recruitment
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