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South Dublin Tidy towns 01 February 2012, 12.15
A South Dublin County Tidy Towns public meeting is taking place in Tallaght Stadium on Thursday 16th February at 7.30pm. Speakers will include a Tidy Towns competition adjudicator, Public Realm Designer, speaker from Lucan Tidy
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Volunteer Centre Newsletter - January 12 05 January 2012, 16.58
Volunteer Centre Newsletter
Monday 9th January 2012
New Community Hub Announced.
Are you a small community group in South
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Celebrate Volunteering! 17 November 2011, 14.40
Celebrate Volunteering on 5th December International Volunteer Day
As you know, 2011 celebrated the European Year of Volunteering and we had many events in South Dublin
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New quality mark for volunteering! 07 November 2011, 15.25
Volunteer Ireland is delighted to announce that they recently secured funding from the EU as part of the European Year of Volunteering 2011 to develop a framework for a national quality standard for involving volunteers. This
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| Below is a list containing some examples of Virtual Volunteering work.
* Technical assistance provided by online volunteers to staff or other volunteers at an agency. Such assistance usually involves task or objective-based assignments, or the volunteer providing a particular expertise to the agency. This would include volunteers who work off-site, using a computer and the Internet. * Conducting online research: finding information to use in an agency's upcoming grant proposal or newsletter, gathering information on a particular government program or legislation that could affect an agency's clients, gathering web site addresses of similarly-focused organisations, using online phone books and web sites to update contact information for a database, etc. * Providing professional consulting expertise: answering an agency's questions regarding human resources, accounting, management or legal issues, writing a speech, developing a strategic plan for a particular department, setting up a video conferencing event, providing industrial designs, etc. * Helping with advocacy: posting information to appropriate online communities (newsgroups, lists, etc.), preparing legislative alerts to be sent via e-mail, keeping track of legislation that could affect an agency's clients, etc. * Translating a document into another language. * Providing multimedia expertise, such as preparing a PowerPoint, Hypercard, QuickTime or other computer-based presentation * Designing an agency's newsletter or brochure, or copy editing an agency's publication or proposal * Proofreading drafts of paper and online publications * Researching and writing articles for brochures, newsletters, web sites, etc. * Designing a logo for an agency or program, or filling other illustration needs * Preparing information for an agency's World Wide Web site * Writing a technology plan, designing a marketing strategy, or directing other types of organisational planning and outreach * Making sure a Web site is accessible for people with disabilities * Registering an agency's World Wide Web home page and other appropriate pages with online search engines, directories and "What's New" sites * Designing a database system using an agency's in-house database software (FileMaker Pro, Access, Lotus Approach, etc.) * Providing advanced Web site programming (creating automated forms, interactive areas, e-commerce functions, etc.) * Doing regular searches for news articles relating to an organisation or a particular topic * Volunteer management assistance: managing other volunteers in the aforementioned activities, providing an online orientation to all volunteers with Internet access (whether or not they are onsite or online volunteers), surveying volunteers via e-mail about their experiences with an agency or program, keeping track of volunteer hours, inputting volunteer opportunities into online databanks, etc. |