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100 Event Holders get FREE access to volunteers

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 Looking for a professional IT volunteer to lend a helping hand? Here’s your chance to get access to a bank of these people for FREE. Sometimes, a bit of professional input can make all the difference. They are often the people who say, ‘Yes, no problem!’ to issues that would daunt the rest of us (like setting up a mobile connection at an outdoor event, for example, or networking several computers). Often they can also volunteer to be tutors for a day, or help train members of your community in advance to become tutors for a day – all resourced by the learning materials that DU provides on this website.

The real problem can be how to find and afford the services of such a professional.  iT4Communities(iT4C) is the UK’s leading national IT volunteering organisation – and they are professionals at finding such volunteers. Their service isn’t completely free but comes with an £85 admin charge which brings you access to volunteer IT professionals for an entire year.
The great news is that iT4 Communities has teamed up with DU to offer a time-limited version of their service free to the first 100 organisations, of any type(charities or otherwise) who register with them online for help with their SSD project in 2009. You don’t have to have a fully developed Silver Surfers’ Day Event in order to qualify for this free offer, just have a willingness to take the first steps.  If you are one of the lucky ones, your free membership with iT4Communities will last until the end of May, well after the Silver Surfers’ Day date of May 15th. You can easily register by clicking here.

(Note: iT4Communities can’t guarantee you a volunteer. This is the first time they’ve worked with SSD so we hope we are creating a great model to keep SSD growing into the future.)

More information about iT4Communities:

Whether or not you are one of the lucky 100 organisations to get a free ‘taster’ of iT4C, please consider signing up for a year. iT4C routinely finds IT professionals who want to volunteer with UK-based charitable organisations to build websites, develop databases, solve their technical issues. Their diverse pool of 6,200 volunteer IT professionals can help with almost any IT task you can think of. Visit us athttp://www.it4communities.org.uk for more information or look at the case studies.

The £85 administration fee allows you to register as many projects as you need for 12 months and you will also be able to speak to a skilled iT4C Project Definer who will talk to you about your project in non-geek speak then advertise your requirements to the volunteers. The team are always on hand throughout the project.


March 17th, 2009 sophiet | 1 Comment »


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    One Response to “100 Event Holders get FREE access to volunteers”

    1. Josh Hoole Says:
      March 23rd, 2009 at 11:06 am

      We still have some free Silver Surfer places left and now is perfect time to sign up since we’ve had a 600-strong boost of IT volunteers this thanks to recent media success in top technology press.

      There are now 660 new IT volunteers looking to share their time and talent with charities and voluntary & community organisations needing IT help and support.

      Have a look at http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/03/18/235319/recession-leads-to-flood-of-it-volunteers.htm and http://www.fundraising.co.uk/newswire/2009/03/17/it-intellect-ball-raises-£13000-it4c to read all about it.

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