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The Volunteer Manager's Guide to Media Work: Part 5 - What's On the Menu at the Volunteer Manager's Internet Cafe Contributed by:
Mary Eileen WoodWednesday, October 29, 2003 (9 years 200 days ago)
Everywhere one turns, news about the World Wide Web, email, e-business abounds. From this smorgasbord of opportunities, what can volunteer managers select that will be effective, improve their efficiency, and increase their "harvest of volunteers"?
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The Volunteer Manager's Guide to Media Work: Part 4 - What if a Press Release Won't Work? Contributed by:
Mary Eileen WoodWednesday, October 15, 2003 (9 years 214 days ago)
You've learned a lot in this series about media work. But this year you launch a major recruiting effort for volunteers to operate the Amateur Radio Station (or "Ham Shack") just donated to your museum. No press release can contain the museum's delight with the donation, the opportunity afforded local amateur radio operators (aka "hams") for visibility and fun playing with the tech toys, or the variety of ways non-licensed people can dip their toes into this hobby by volunteering for you.
What to do?
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The Volunteer Manager's Guide to Media Work: Part 3 - "The Hook" Contributed by:
Mary Eileen WoodWednesday, October 01, 2003 (9 years 228 days ago)
Does the title of this article make you think of Peter Pan's Captain Hook? Your mind is definitely in the right place. He was about as subtle as "eau de skunk"; just so, your media hook should be to the point and leave no doubt as to your intentions. If you'd rather not secure your media coverage with The Captain's inimitably fiendish style (imagine an assignment editor dangling over the crocodile's maw from "your hook"), read on.
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The Volunteer Manager's Guide to Media Work: Part 2 - What Is In Our Media Toolbox? Contributed by:
Mary Eileen WoodWednesday, September 17, 2003 (9 years 242 days ago)
Hello, again. Last column, we met the media (Meet the Press), and learned that coverage helps us and them. But volunteer coordinators are not PR directors. (Our paychecks prove it.) So where do we begin?
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The Volunteer Manager's Guide to Media Work: Part 1 - Meet the Press, Volunteer Managers! Contributed by:
Mary Eileen WoodWednesday, September 03, 2003 (9 years 256 days ago)
Remember Mom's reminders about "being modest" and "taking turns" and "not bragging"? Well, the day you became a Volunteer Manager was the day you threw those admonitions out the window.
Whether you work for a small town's food pantry or a major city's United Way, you have a pool of media organizations needing stories to cover. Evidence to the contrary, murders and fires are NOT the only things they find newsworthy but rather those they get readily.
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