If you ever worked in private practice or consulting, you know the joys of tracking time. Even if you never had such employment, knowing where the minutes went can help you better plan and may help non-profits.
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Dragons and Protected Areas – April 4, 12-13h
A University of Alberta (U of A) student project team will be going head-to-head with community leaders to explain and pitch the Volunteer Steward smartphone Application.
Continue readingBirkie – Sign Me UP!
The Canadian Birkebeiner Society (Birkie) relies on 500+ volunteers. While many of these volunteers are returning, some may want to try something new or a complete newbie may express their interest. A WordPress form and a Google Sheet collects this interest.
Continue readingThe Birkie Catalog of Opportunities
Supporting the previous website step, the key data fields needed to describe each of the volunteer roles for the Birkie.
Continue readingTelling the Volunteer Story(ies)
To improve its volunteer management processes, the first step for the Canadian Birkebeiner Society (Birkie) took was to create a dedicated website. While this site will be folded back into the pre-existing web presence, this new site side-stepped several technical problems.
Continue reading(A) Typical Volunteer
A Matrix that combines two dimensions to define volunteer roles. The dimensions are the length of time for the volunteer role and the classic ARCI responsibility matrix.
Continue readingLucky 7’s in LAST VeGA
The LAST VeGA is a volunteer lifecycle model. Lucky 7’s in LAST VeGA expands on the model to include how volunteers are managed.
Continue readingTagging and Bagging on Mount OBI
Users think of an Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) Dashboard as a single entity. OBI uses an ‘a la carte’ method in which ‘Objects’ can be assembled and re-used across multiple Dashboard. This Modular approach drives the need for an effective inventory system.

AGOV Talks About Summiting Mount OBI
Previous blogs introduced the technology and processes to climb the metaphoric Mount OBI. Communications was alluded to but more fully discussed in this blog as well as the various passes AGOV engaged in to reduce its OBI footprint by two-thirds.
Continue readingMeasuring Mount OBI
Three metrics help to assess the value of an OBI-Object: quantitative, qualitative, and the ‘So-What’ question. These are supplemented by the overall ‘game-rules’.
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