Am thrilled to see that WMUK is recognising its non-board member-volunteers in a tangible way!
(I've got business cards from WMHK for a while now and some of you have seen them - for a long time I thought giving regular volunteers official business cards isn't common practice in this country... maybe it still isn't) Deryck On Jun 21, 2012 5:25 PM, "Richard Symonds" <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > I'm currently organising business cards for interested (and active!) > volunteers. If you're interested, please let me know *privately > (off-list) *within the next day or two. I need to get these cards sorted > out ASAP - if you're interested I'll need your username, your phone number > (if you want it on there), an email address (if you want one on there) and > anything else you think relevant. It'd also be nice to know what you'd > consider yourself as (eg "GLAM Volunteer"). I might need to tweak these > titles a little, but not too much. > > I'll also need a brief explanation of why it's important for you to have > them - nothing big, just a sentence or two, something like "I do a lot of > GLAM Outreach with museums in the York area, and would like the cards to > appear more professional when doing projects" or "I speak fluent Cornish > and would like to be able to approach Cornish organisations in a > semi-official basis". > > The cards will comply with WMF Visual Identity guidelines, will be > professional-looking, will be funded by WMUK. We'll keep track of who has > them in the office - which means you'll need to be a chapter member, or at > the very least well-known to the chapter. They won't confer any "official > status" on you, and you won't be able to sign agreements or similar on > behalf of the chapter (obviously), but they will help you make those first > vital inroads when talking to people from GLAMs. > > I can think of 5 or 6 volunteers off the top of my head who could make > good use of them. Let me know ASAP. *I can't promise that we'll give them > out *to *everyone*, as I need board approval, *and *there needs to be a > good business case for it, but I think the majority of the board and staff > believe that active chapter members should be able to get support like this > without too much hassle. > > All the best, > > Richard Symonds > Wikimedia UK > 0207 065 0992 > Disclaimer viewable at > http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer > Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > >
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