Volunteer Matching System

Posted by Gabe on August 2, 2010 under Kids are Heroes | Be the First to Comment

This is a follow-up post from my last one which was “Calling All Photogs“.  That post wrote of a volunteer matching system to be built on our web site where we match volunteer photographers with our heroes, so that the heroes could post events where photographers were needed and in turn the photographers who have signed up could get some valuable pro bono work, and help a great cause at the same time.

Well I have been busy over the last week or two building this system.  As a matter of fact I decided that as long as I was building it I would add some potential volunteer disciplines, namely videography and graphic artistry for starters.  I decided to integrate it with Twitter for a number of reasons.  That may be disappointing to some, but in the end I think it was the right move.  Most of the volunteers will come from the people following me on Twitter and it will also encourage the heroes who are not yet on Twitter to take that step and join the fun.

So if you are a photographer, a graphic artist, or a videographer and you would like to volunteer your skills to help out some young heroes who are doing amazing things, please go over to http://volunteer.kidsareheroes.org and register yourself.  In the beginning it will be a bit like the chicken and the egg, as we will need heroes to post their events as well, so after you have registered please check back from time to time to see if any opportunities have been registered.  Since it is integrated with Twitter if you follow our heroes you will be able to see when opportunities are entered.  Heroes will be able to browse the volunteer list as well and potentially follow the volunteers and/or contact them directly.

So please check it out and start posting events/volunteering.  It is a brand new system so it may have a glitch or two.  If you find any please feel free to let me know about them, and/or send me ideas on how to improve it in the comments section below. Thank you!!