154 – Getting and Keeping Volunteers

This week the WELSTech Podcast is again focusing on the work of the church and school office, particularly the job of managing and motivating volunteers.

The discussion:

Happy to help – Continuing the focus on the church and school office, Martin and Sallie share ideas for recruiting volunteers and motivating them to come back for future service.

• The Seven Deadly Sins of Recruiting Volunteers from Volunteer Power
• Volunteer Spot
  • Great Ideas for Saying Thank You to Your Volunteers: Recognition from A-Z
• MailChimp – professional mass e-mail
• More …
  • How to Motivate Volunteers from Volunteer Power
  • The complete list of Volunteer Power articles
  • SignApp Now
  • Pick a Time
  • YouCanBook.Me

The interview:

(17:33) Volunteering for missions – Imagine managing 3,000 volunteers per year. The staff of WELS Kingdom Workers (WKW) including Communication Manager, Neil Hankwitz, do just that. Neil joins Martin and Sallie to share stories from his 18+ years of experience coordinating home and world mission volunteers.  Hear how WKW is planning to “go social” on their updated web site, connecting like-mined volunteers with stories of service in missions.

• WELSKingdomWorkers.org
• Mission Information Center – request mission display materials

Ministry resources:

(30:24) Installment 1 of Martin’s “Facebook for Churches” journey

Picks of the week:

• (32:34) The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd – Eight seasons of family friendly podcast available for free download
• Maximizing productivity with multiple monitors
  • How-to Guide from Epinions
  • Use two of the same monitors or at least use the same screen size and resolution – Example HP 20″ Monitor
  • Laptops need …
    • VGA + DVI or PCMCIA
    • OR a Matrox box
  • Desktops need …
    • A graphics card with two VGA heads

WELS.net feature:

(43:02) Lectionary on Google Calendar

Community feedback:

• (45:32) Martin shared a link to a YouTube video by Office Casual – Make Better PowerPoint Presentations
• Gail Potratz from Emanuel in New London, WI shared a link to a blog post on PBS Kids Cyberchase Games
• Jason Schmidt from Gethsemane in Omaha, NE shared a couple of links
  • 100 Ways Google Can Make You a Better Educator
  • The Stock Market Game
• The WELSTech Listserve was hopping with HTML editor recommendations
  • Code Lobster
  • The SeaMonkey Project with Composer
  • Kompozer
  • Eclipse
  • Crimson Editor
• Mark Heilman from Pilgrim Lutheran School in Minneapolis, MN shared a link to the blog journal of their student trip to the Czech Republic
• Teacher Ryan Rosenthal from Faith in Fond du Lac, WI shared a link to WE Energies resources for educators

Coming up on WELSTech:

(55:33) Episode 155 – Gail Potratz joins Martin and Sallie to discuss highlights from the Minnesota and Wisconsin teachers’ conferences.  (Release date 10/27/10)

The featured artist:

(56:35) This week we close with the beautiful piano music of Dawn Gehlhar – All through the Night from her CD titled ”Inspirations”

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