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January 2, 1999.
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January 2, 1999
- Pennsylvania American Institute of Architects
- Organization Name
- Pennsylvania American Institute of Architects
- Organization City
- Harrisburg (State Capital)
- State/Province
- PA
- Country
- USA
- Organization's Geographic Service Area
- State of PA
- Number of full-time and part-time employees (paid staff)
- 3
- Respondent's Name
- William J. Marston
- Respondent's Position
- Co-founder, PA AIA Environmental Committee
- Organization's Web Site Address
- www.aiaphila.org
- Respondent's Role in Working with Volunteers at Organization
- I founded both Philadelphia AIA web committee and helped found a statewide committee on sustainable building and environmental (or 'green') as a consortium of AIA members interested in such issues.
- How did you hear about this Project?
- From our community access coordinator at our community 'freenet' and ISP .
- What other staff have involved volunteers virtually at
your organization?
- All of libertynet, of course!
AIA PA is now organizing a web chief position
However, AIA Philadelphia is converting our original website into a commercially-oriented 'consumer' site, supported totally by professional web developers, and witout any true web volunteers as before. Alas...
- Approximately how many of your online volunteers provide
technical assistance to your staff or to other volunteers?
- 3
- Please describe the kinds of activities these technical
assistance volunteers provide to your organization:
- Volunteers learned html, scanning, some javascript, etc. and used their personal and business resources to support the volunteer web-based organization.
We dedicated our own hard disk space, cgi's, and actual cash to the project. I have dedicated one of my 5 aol account names to this effort.
- Approximately how many of your volunteers provide direct
support to clients / recipients of service via the Internet?
- ?
- Please describe the kinds of volunteer activities these
direct contact volunteers provide to your organization:
- So far, we have used internet volunteering to support one another, to have online meetings (via chat room and cc'ing on minutes, etc., to coordinate communications with our elected officials-our effort being to organize sustainable design efforts on behalf of a healthy environment.
- How did you recruit the volunteers you involve(d) via
the Internet?
- through chain of contacts (who knows whom); through our print monthly newsletter with notice of open meeting.
- How did you screen/orient the volunteers you involve(d)
via the Internet?
- FTF meetings. Accepted any-all! volunteers(!) are so valuable and so few we took all offers, and sorted the quality/applicability as we went along.
- How do you supervise and recognize/reward online
volunteers for their contributions?
- Supervise thru emails. Recognize thru listing names and roles on credit web page, mention in print monthly journal, thru buying lunch for FTF mtgs. sometimes.
- Have you ever surveyed these online volunteers about
their experiences with your organization?
- No
- What factors in your organization have promoted the
success of your virtual volunteering program?
- What successful-success of our actual work, the politeness and cooperative attitude of our people.
- What factors in your organization have impeded the
success of your virtual volunteering program?
- Staff reluctance to trust policy matters with volunteers, lack of financial support from staff, lack of energy from all volunteers to keep up the volunteering for years. Lack of collegial support for advancing efforts using newer tools and techniques (trust in hand coding of html only, no NetObjects or GoLive Cyberstudio, etc).
- Please add any other comments you would like to send to
us:
- I look forward to staying in touch! what a great idea to create your organization.
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