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August 31, 1998.
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August 31, 1998
- Chebucto Community Net
- Organization Name
- Chebucto Community Net
- Organization City
- Halifax
- State/Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Organization's Geographic Service Area
- Nova Scotia and other parts of Canada depending on the kind
of service
- Number of full-time and part-time employees (paid staff)
- Not sure, but it is mainly maintained by volunteers
- Respondent's Name
- Ashwin Kutty
- Respondent's Position
- IP editor
- Organization's Web Site Address
- www.chebucto.ns.ca
- Respondent's Role in Working with Volunteers at Organization
- At the present moment, in a coordinated effort
with other volunteers we are in the process of
creating an online game which will be posted
during the upcoming Science and Technology week
for the awareness of different ip's on ccn.. as
well on a regular basis interaction with other
volunteers is required since things have to be
decided as to the best recourse or action to be
taken in terms of increasing awareness as well as
creating and maintaing ip web pages, etc..
- How did you hear about this Project?
- Recently Jayne Cravens sent a request to CCN
about their Volunteering Activities and I
decided to look the site up that was mentioned
in that mail..
- What other staff have involved volunteers virtually at
your organization?
- Volunteers in CCN start from basic administrative
work in the office to, helping with questions that
are sent to the help desk to maintaining the
network as a whole.. so there are a variety of
positions (titles and roles) right from the
bottom up..
- Approximately how many of your online volunteers provide
technical assistance to your staff or to other volunteers?
- not sure but there are lots..
- Please describe the kinds of activities these technical
assistance volunteers provide to your organization:
- as I mentioned before.. there are ip editors,
to people who maintain upgrades, to people who
literraly take care of the system as whole..
- Approximately how many of your volunteers provide direct
support to clients / recipients of service via the Internet?
- for this too there are lots..
- Please describe the kinds of volunteer activities these
direct contact volunteers provide to your organization:
- there are computer labs in libraries where the
working of CCN is taught to kids, adults etc..
as well as instructions provided to clients
using the CCN for a web page of their own etc..
- How did you recruit the volunteers you involve(d) via
the Internet?
- I have not yet 'recruited' any volunteers as I
tend to be in the lower end of the whole chain..
- How did you screen/orient the volunteers you involve(d)
via the Internet?
- no response
- How do you supervise and recognize/reward online
volunteers for their contributions?
- no response
- Have you ever surveyed these online volunteers about
their experiences with your organization?
- no response
- What factors in your organization have promoted the
success of your virtual volunteering program?
- There are lots of tie-ins between the volunteers
from different sections of the network, this keeps
people aware of all the happenings of the Network,
not necessarily being involved in all of them but
lending a hand whenever necessary..
- What factors in your organization have impeded the
success of your virtual volunteering program?
- There was and probably still is a little bit of
seperation between the volunteers and the ip's
(editors etc.) and this tends to be a bit of a
disadvantage but everything is being tied in now and
it seems to be doing fine and getting better..
- Please add any other comments you would like to send to
us:
- no response
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