Responses
to November 2003 hot topic
Start
the conference carousel - I want to get on!
Submitted
on November 30, 2003 by Ian Foster, Public Relations
Officer, Wide Bay Volunteer Resource Association Inc,
Queensland, Australia
Just
read your hot topic, and thought I'd let you know
what WBV are getting up to in seminars, workshops,
and so forth. We recently hosted a conference attended
by two bods from Volunteering Queensland; our Education
and Training unit has just been kicked off, and our
girl on the spot (Deb) is working on some 32 courses
at last count, dealing with volunteering etc.
And next year I'm kicking off a fourteen week course
in PR; a twelve week course in Creative Writing, and
hope to be taking our journalism course to the high
schools...seems the media teachers teach what you'll
find in a newsroom (journos, subbies, chief of staff
and so forth) but not how to write a release.
Submitted
on November 1, 2003 by Susan J Ellis, President, Energize
Inc, Philadelphia, USA
You
make lots of important points here, Andy. I just wanted
to add that technology would seem to be a great alternative
for your far-flung network of colleagues. Teleconferencing
(by phone) is already a viable option in the corporate
world but not truly adopted by the volunteer field.
Today this can be enhanced by visuals transmitted
via the Web, so that people are listening over a phone
line but "seeing" a PowerPoint presentation
or some other visual. In fact, I just did this combination
last week, sitting at my desk in Philadelphia and
participating in a three-hour event in Anchorage,
Alaska, 5,000 miles away.
This
all will eventually be replaced by Web-based, real-time
videoconferencing, once the bandwidth becomes more
manageable. I don't believe, by the way, that video
will negate the need for in-person conferences. Nothing
will ever supplant real-life interaction. But it will
be a way to connect those who can't travel and to
provide follow-up contact after an event.
I
hope you succeed in planting the seeds for lots more
Australasian training opportunities!
Let's
hear what you think
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