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Energize May 2012	Three Things Volunteer Managers Can Learn from the Social Media Revolution Quick Tip: Recruit what Susan Ellis calls `cyber deputies.' These are volunteers who perhaps have more knowledge or comfort with social media than you.
Energize December 2011 Susan J. Ellis	My Personal "State of the World's Volunteering" Report On December 5th, International Volunteer Day, United Nations Volunteers is set to issue its State of the World's Volunteering Report, officially bringing to a close the 2011 International Year of Volunteers + 10.
Energize January 2014 Susan J. Ellis	Virtual Volunteering Revisited Some people will volunteer solely online, others will combine a virtual component with an onsite placement, and others may do their service totally hands on.
Energize January 2007 Susan J. Ellis	Should Volunteer Program Managers Be Volunteers, Too? There's never been a better time to volunteer for a volunteer management network - and that's true in a range of countries around the world, many of whom are nurturing embryo associations right now.
Energize June 2007 Susan J. Ellis	Technology Acceleration: Grab Hold and Hang On We are never going back to pre-Web days. What does this all mean to the volunteer world right now? Well, it may be frenetic and strange, but the explosion of new technologies is an enormous opportunity. Make the most of it!
Search Engine Watch June 29, 2009 Ron Jones	Blogs and Blogging 101, Part 1 Search engines will reward a site that has quality content with good rankings. For many sites, one of the easiest ways to add that quality content on a consistent basis is by starting a blog.
Energize September 2013 Susan J. Ellis	What Volunteer Resources Managers Can Teach Human Resources Managers Volunteer resources managers are constantly being told what we can learn from professionals in personnel or human resources. Maybe it's time we tell HR what they can learn from us.
Search Engine Watch July 6, 2009 Ron Jones	Blogs and Blogging 101, Part 2 One of the best ways to approach your blog posts is to put yourself in the shoes of your followers and identify a question they might have. Your assignment is to answer that question with a post.
Energize August 2014 Susan J. Ellis	Identifying Who Is and Is Not a "Volunteer" Here are ten time-tested volunteer recruitment tips that still work.
Energize Susan J. Ellis	Volunteering and Employability: Cause or Effect? Most of us in volunteer management support the observation that volunteering builds resumes, provides career exploration, and demonstrates each volunteer's abilities, but can we make the case that volunteering directly affects employability? And is that the point?
Energize June 2010 Susan J. Ellis	Reimagining Service: Is Corporate HR Management What We See? If you see volunteer management as just HR management, then you will love Reimagining Service, which promotes the idea of applying private sector human resources practices to nonprofit organizations.
Financial Planning October 1, 2005 Pat Olsen	The Financial Blogger Web logs can serve as a cutting-edge marketing tool and communications vehicle for financial advisers. But there are caveats to consider as well.
Energize March 2012 Susan J. Ellis	How Serving the Volunteer Field Has Changed after 35 Years -- Or Not? Associations and infrastructure organizations can come and go, but the real action is on the ground, in each and every action volunteers take to improve the world.
Energize June 2012 Susan J. Ellis	Why Do We Love Volunteer Satisfaction Surveys? How did we arrive at this particular method of assessing success with volunteers? Do such surveys reveal anything meaningful about the value of volunteer contributions?
Search Engine Watch May 3, 2011 Kristi Hines	How to Use Blog Commenting to Get Valuable Backlinks and Traffic Blog commenting can help you build relationships and authority in your industry. This will ultimately lead to organic links and new traffic.
AFP eWire January 22, 2007	Survey Examines Corporate Support of Employee Volunteers in Canada Most corporations and businesses in Canada encourage or accommodate their employee volunteer activities during work hours, although the manner and extent of the support varies widely, according to a new survey.
InternetNews September 24, 2004 Chris Nerney	Balancing in the Blogosphere As Microsoft recently discovered, companies must consider more than bandwidth costs when setting blogging policies for their employees. The company's effort to ease bandwidth burdens generated by RSS feeds was unsupported by employees and eventually reversed.
Energize August 2014 Susan J. Ellis	Identifying Who Is and Is Not a "Volunteer" I suspect that every reader has engaged in this sort of discussion/debate/argument more than once.
PC Magazine September 28, 2005 John C. Dvorak	Dvorak's Blogging Primer Despite the growing popularity of blogs, lots of people still don't get what they're about.
Energize October 2012 Susan J. Ellis	Practicing What We Preach: Volunteers Helping Us, Too One of the enduring mysteries of the volunteer management field is how often those who lead volunteer efforts do not build a team of volunteers to help them in their important work.
Search Engine Watch March 9, 2005 Chris Sherman	A Cool Blog Discovery Tool There's a lot of great content out there on those millions of blogs, so finding the good ones related to your own interests can be a challenge to many blog search engines. But this set of tools takes a different approach to blog searches.
Energize September 2009 Susan J. Ellis	Making Ongoing Volunteering Valued and Visible During the amazing and celebratory opening session of the National Conference on Volunteering and Service held this June in San Francisco, First Lady Michelle Obama and at least four of the other famous speakers proposed a future scenario for volunteering.
Search Engine Watch October 28, 2004 Mike Rende	Web Feeds, Blogs & Search Engines Blogs are increasingly popular, and can have a dramatic effect on search engine positioning. How can you best take advantage of this new search marketing channel?
Energize April 2009 Susan J. Ellis	Confidentiality and Other Objections to Volunteers It's easy for staff in our organizations to stop any creative idea involving volunteers from going forward. They just have to raise one of the following objections:
Energize May 2006 Susan J. Ellis	Online Spying Can Improve Your Volunteer Management Skills Use the Internet to be a quiet explorer, observing carefully what other non-profit organizations are doing. Educate yourself about approaches and models that you might follow, adapt, or even avoid.
Managed Care July 2007 Alan Adler	Why Blogs? Don't dismiss this development in Web communication. Blogs -- the best of them -- conduct serious and extensive discussions of health care policy and provide important new information.
Energize Susan J. Ellis	Should We Cap the Number of Hours a Volunteer May Serve Each Week? New volunteers may start off gung-ho and promise many hours before they know what they will experience. So I like the practice of setting an initial limit of maximum time until the situation evolves and looks to be successful.
Energize February 2011	Real Professions Have Strong Associations - Responses A reader offers comments on the common problems and goals of volunteer management associations
Energize September 2006 Susan J. Ellis	What’s in a Name…or a Title? What's the best title for the person who is designated as the leader of volunteers?
Energize March 2014 Susan J. Ellis	Let's Help People Help Each Other Jayne's Cravens' story of informal volunteering in a neighborhood made me consider some challenging questions for those of us in volunteer resources management.
Energize November 2009 Susan J. Ellis	Media Blitz vs. Media Noise: What Are We Trying to Accomplish? As I write this Hot Topic, we've just ended the Entertainment Industry Foundation's attempt to mention volunteering in all types of media.
Energize March 2013 Susan J. Ellis	Why Social Media Is Not the Cure-All for Building Volunteer Engagement You can become very successful at recruitment if you are able to brainstorm where you are most likely to find the right people -- not just people -- and where your message will not compete with thousands of others.
Energize June 2011 Paula J. Beugen	Is the Corporation for National and Community Service on the Right Track for Volunteerism? After energetically working alongside many others to advance the concepts for what became the National and Community Service Act of 1990, I am stunned by the current state of what is now the Corporation for National and Community Service
Energize June 2006 Susan J. Ellis	Wouldn't It Be Nice to Really Know.... Trends in volunteering are reported largely based on observation and anecdotes rather than on hard data.
Energize November 2013 Susan J. Ellis	Education through Celebration on International Volunteer Managers Day It is important to let professional volunteer managers know that the spirit of volunteerism is enhanced and enabled by them -- and it is important to thank them.
Energize July 2006 Susan J. Ellis	"I Don't Have Time" It's still possible to engage people in more intensive volunteer service, if we pay attention to their needs.
CFO October 1, 2004 John Edwards	Blogging for Dollars Once the domain of the disgruntled and demented, Web logs are being embraced by business executives. Consider Microsoft's commercial web-log pilot service in Japan.
Energize February 2011 Susan J. Ellis	Real Professions Have Strong Associations Ever since I've been in volunteerism, and that's almost four decades now, periodically someone raises the question: "Is volunteer management a profession or a skilled job?"
Energize August 1, 2007 Susan J. Ellis	The Big Merger: Many Unanswered Questions The merger between the Points of Light Foundation and Hands On Network has the potential for a positive impact on volunteerism. But, there are more questions than answers about the new entity.
Energize April 2008 Susan Ellis	Volunteering is Bigger than the Nonprofit Sector The practice of volunteering for government agencies is contrasted with non-profit volunteering programs and a case is made for volunteers in government.
Energize May 2010 Susan J. Ellis	The Self-Directed Volunteer The author discusses what is meant by the "self-directed" volunteer and what this means for philanthropic organizations.
Energize November 2010 Susan J. Ellis	When Volunteers Resist Change Always remember that volunteers bring their own perspectives and stereotypes about volunteerism to their service. Here are some ways of thinking that reflect a lack of training or understanding.
Energize May 2014 Susan J. Ellis	Branding National Volunteer Week: Who Wins and Who Loses? National Volunteer Week last month was its usual non-event in the United States -- despite its 40 th anniversary -- with precious little media attention. This year, however, that might well have been a good thing.
T.H.E. Journal February 2004 Ferdig & Trammell	Content Delivery in the 'Blogosphere' While a few educators have already started using blogs in the classroom, more have focused on the potential of blogging in teaching and learning.
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2002 Greg R. Notess	The Blog Realm News sources, searching with Daypop, and content management
Energize March 2010 Susan J. Ellis	AmeriCorps and Senior Corps Targeting Volunteer Management The most popular capacity building option among both charities and congregations with social service outreach activities is the addition of a one-year, full-time volunteer with a living stipend (like an AmeriCorps member), with responsibility for volunteer recruitment and management.
CIO June 1, 2006 Michael Fitzgerald	Welcome to My Blog Blogging isn't the same as writing a memo or a message in the corporate newsletter. And while it may not be as revolutionary as some make it out to be, there's still value there. Here's how to get started and how to do it right.
HBS Working Knowledge November 28, 2005 Katherine Heires	Does Your Company Belong in the Blogosphere? Here is advice from executive experts on helping your company realize the full benefits of blogging.
Energize November 2005 Susan J. Ellis	Strength in Numbers: Engaging Volunteers as Partners in Program Development There is a specific form of volunteer involvement that has great potential as a tool for internal advocacy: activating a visible team of volunteer representatives.
Energize August 2005 Susan J. Ellis	Still Tilting at Windmills While there have been huge and exciting developments in volunteerism in the past 30 years, many of the challenges are still looming windmills to fight. Also, the most stimulating activities right now are occurring far outside the United States, while here it is harder to find innovators or leaders.