Show Notes

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: We have talked about Cohorts, Motivation, and The Business of Civic Volunteerism in recent episodes, now the real challenge, advancing the cause or causes and making sure there is something to get Attention for (that was yet another recent episode)

Links

• Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
• Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
• AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org
• Mastodon for Vegas https://mastodon.vegas

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: We touched on this a bit in a previous episode about Cohorts, but it is actually quite important, if you plan to form a nonprofit or similar business entity, to decide where the line between the business and the volunteering is and make sure that line is clear.

• Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
• Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
• AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org
• Mastodon for Vegas https://mastodon.vegas

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Are you thinking about pursuing a civic volunteer path, possibly civic tech specifically or some other focal area or maybe general community elevation as we are? How about some ideas getting started and some things to think about…

• Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
• Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
• AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org
• Mastodon for Vegas https://mastodon.vegas

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Why would anyone want to spend their time, effort, and expertise on something that does not pay and may not receive the immediate appreciation it probably deserves? It is a question of motivation…

• Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
• Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
• AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org
• Mastodon for Vegas https://mastodon.vegas
• A Civic Technologist´s Practice Guide by Cyd Harrell https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/85466346-a-civic-technologist-s-practice-guide
• Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka https://www.recodingamerica.us/

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Usually simplified to the Chicken and Egg Problem, most volunteer organizations will face a similar challenge, gaining interest in something not yet done so that the something can get done, to gain interest in the next thing not yet done. Getting attention is a challenge.

• Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
• Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
• AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org
• Mastodon for Vegas https://mastodon.vegas

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: There is still a need to remind people that civic volunteerism, and many things in fact, require more than Code, and so we will do that again today!

• Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
• Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
• AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org
• Mastodon for Vegas https://mastodon.vegas

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: The exciting world of civic volunteerism collides with nonprofit public charity budgets to leave an intense need to make use of gratis tools whenever possible, and in so doing we get to know up close what is out there and what works, and along the way we can try to be visible to the outside world, though not everybody buys that.

• Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
• Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
• AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org
• Mastodon for Vegas https://mastodon.vegas

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: One of the fundamental elements of our efforts is a way to account for and recognize the value of volunteer time, effort, and expertise as applied to our initiatives, and our experiment to accomplish this is something we call Agile for Volunteers, and this is how we are making it go.

• Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
• Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
• AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org
• Mastodon for Vegas https://mastodon.vegas

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: We have at least two virtual meetups each week, barring schedule conflicts or respites, and some might be wondering what these are all about, so a quick rundown on what these are for and why they are split, and what about hackathons anyway?

• Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
• Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
• AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org
• Mastodon for Vegas https://mastodon.vegas

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Whether a civic volunteer organization such as ours, or any activity to which you commit your volunteer time, effort, and expertise, there is something different about working in something other than a workplace that brings with it norms and expectations. Do they translate to the world of volunteer initiatives? Well…

• Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
• Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
• AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org
• Mastodon for Vegas https://mastodon.vegas