400 people attended the Volunteering Australia conference on the Gold Coast. The number was down from their original 600 target. Whether the numbers were down because of the high cost, change of date and venue, the recession or the program we will never know.
We do know that about 1000 people read my blog post on the high cost of the Conference and not one person disagreed with my comments. Volunteering Australia sadly ignored the blog post which is I would suggest a poor response to such a large group of their constituents and poor social media strategy.
We do know that Conference keynote speaker Michael Kirby was his usual brilliant self and that The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP launched the long awaited national volunteer strategy for Australia. I will comment on the strategy next week.
We also know that the hashtag #VolAus11 has over 800 twitter comments from over 130 participants. They included:
RT @neridagill: RT @creativewire: Recruiting volunteers is not about 'asking for a favour', it's about giving yr volunteers something meaningful #volaus11
Congrats to Cary and the team at Volunteering Australia on a very successful and beneficial conference. You should be very proud! #volaus11
RT @CreativeWire: The not-for-profit market is 7 times larger than the mining sector in Australia #volaus11
Awesome->RT @ProBonoNews: 'Many of the leaders in volunteering are corporate groups' says Vol Aust of their research #volaus11
Conference attendees, my readers and I would love your feedback. Please leave some comments. You can be anonymous or open.
We do know that about 1000 people read my blog post on the high cost of the Conference and not one person disagreed with my comments. Volunteering Australia sadly ignored the blog post which is I would suggest a poor response to such a large group of their constituents and poor social media strategy.
We also know that the hashtag #VolAus11 has over 800 twitter comments from over 130 participants. They included:
RT @neridagill: RT @creativewire: Recruiting volunteers is not about 'asking for a favour', it's about giving yr volunteers something meaningful #volaus11
Congrats to Cary and the team at Volunteering Australia on a very successful and beneficial conference. You should be very proud! #volaus11
RT @CreativeWire: The not-for-profit market is 7 times larger than the mining sector in Australia #volaus11
Awesome->RT @ProBonoNews: 'Many of the leaders in volunteering are corporate groups' says Vol Aust of their research #volaus11
Conference attendees, my readers and I would love your feedback. Please leave some comments. You can be anonymous or open.
