GLAMTLV2018/Submissions/Bridge, not a gate: Keeping volunteers central to GLAM partnerships
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- Submission no. 10
- Title of the submission
- Bridge, not a gate: Keeping volunteers central to GLAM partnerships
- Author(s) of the submission
- Stuart Prior (WMUK)
- E-mail address
- stuart.prior@wikimedia.org.uk
- Country of origin
- UK
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
- Wikimedia UK
- Type of session
- Lightning talk
- Length of session
- 5 minutes
- Ideal number of attendees
- 5-10
- Abstract
- It can be difficult to keep volunteers central to GLAM projects which can end up being overly-professionalised. I will talk about some of my successes and failures in this regard.
- What will attendees take away from this session?
- The perspective of affiliate staff trying to match volunteers with organisations
- Some ideas for how to successfully do this
- Hopefully a sense that they are not alone in making these mistakes
- Slides or further information
- -
- Special requests
- -
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