Betty Stallings and Martin J Cowling en route to New Orleans!

Having finished three days in Toronto, Canada for PAVR-O with Betty Stallings. We are now en route from Toronto to Houston to New Orleans. I videoed Betty as we walked through the corners of Toronto airport.

Hear what Betty has to say about our weekend plans at the Symposium for Advanced Volunteer Engagement.......

Looking forward to having people join us in person, on line through The Cowling Report and/or via twitter:

Main conference: #NCVS 

Symposium for Advanced Volunteer Engagement:   #NCVSSave

My Tuesday Session: Volunteer Management Toolkit: #Voltools

My Wednesday Session: Sabotage! How Volunteer Managers Sabotage Their Program: #NCVS5493

Welcome to The Cowling Report

I speak to about 10 000 people a year in Workshops and Seminars globally and write for our monthly People First E-News which goes to 6000 readers monthly. Got the Facebook but I have resisted having my own blog for ages. I am now entering the Blog World thanks to encouragement from three other bloggers:-

 Jayne Cravens (author of the Coyote Communications Blog)





DJ Cronin (author of the Blog: A musing on Volunteer Management)






Sue Hine (author of:  Management4Volunteers Blog)


I also want to acknowledge the urging of  three of the world's leading experts in Volunteer Management to get writing

Betty Stallings of Building Better Skills. Yes, Betty, the book is coming!

Susan J Ellis,  Energize Inc, Everyone Ready and E-Volunteerism

 

and Andy Fryar of OzVPM, 

My hope is that this will be a  no holds barred full and frank discussion about working in the community sector for or with Volunteers, and/or Boards and/or Management. Please do communicate your feedback as we move ahead!