TeamKinetic News and Events

Guest Masterclass: Evaluating What Matters
Exploring how to capture and showcase social value beyond the pound

This month, we have a special edition of the TeamKinetic midweek masterclass. Joanne Irvine, a social designer with a background in international development cooperation, will be taking charge of this special guest masterclass!

The session will explore how a collaborative approach to design – focusing on aspects such as joy, connection, and confidence – can help us better understand the genuine impact of projects that support well-being and social inclusion.

We’ll hear insights from research by Joanne Irvine on the social impact of a Glasgow Life volunteer programme. The session will be hands-on, with plenty of chances to get involved and reflect on how the third and public sectors can take a more people-focused approach to measuring social impact.

You can read her guest blog for more insight into the session and her experience in the sector.

TeamKinetic users can register for masterclasses via your system – Help & Support → Extra Training.

If you’re not a TeamKinetic user, you can secure tickets for free here.

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Digital in Volunteering Toolkit & Community of Practice

Last year, we launched the Digital in Volunteering Toolkit – something we developed alongside Gethyn Williams and our partners at the Association of Volunteer Managers. It covers everything volunteer leaders and managers need to know when embracing digital in their roles. You can find out more and download the Toolkit itself via this link.

We’re also excited to kick off the Community of Practice. This is a space for volunteer managers and leaders to:

• Access – hear about future Toolkit updates and related training opportunities.
• Learn – share digital knowledge and experiences with their peers. 
• Influence – bring our collective voice together to advocate for our needs in digital technology.

We’ll be hosting a series of monthly events, starting in May, to take a deep dive into connectivity and interoperability and how this relates to using digital in our marketing and communications.

As well as a first opportunity to see and access new Toolkit content, these monthly online launches will bring together knowledgeable guests from across the world of volunteering. They’ll be sharing their digital experiences. Booking links will be available soon, but you can save the dates now:

• 22nd May: Connectivity, Interoperability, Marketing and Communications – featuring case studies from The Big Help Out and a look ahead to Volunteers’ Week. Guests: George Grima (DoIt), Jess Young (Volunteer Centre Greenwich), Nicola Gower (Volunteers’ Week).

• 19th June: Reward and Recognition – exploring digitally-based incentive schemes.
• 17th July: Digital for Infrastructure – how networks and membership bodies can use digital better to serve the front line in volunteering.

We’d love for you to join us. You can sign up for the community of practice and get your hands on part one of the toolkit here.

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TeamKinetic App Update

We’re pleased to let you know that the latest update to our mobile apps is ready for launch. It’s packed with improvements that make things much more in line with the desktop version.

You can now do things like view and manage HourTrades, access all your resources (links, text, downloads, etc), and enjoy a smoother opportunity search with paged results. You’ll also see opportunity badges more clearly, and all your HTML formatting in descriptions now shows properly on mobile, too. We’ve fixed the chat room visibility issue and made over 35 other tweaks and fixes to polish things up.

Read more about it in this blog post.

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User Training

Monthly TeamKinetic Masterclasses

Slice and Dice your Volunteers: How to Use Groups for Effective Control and Management
Wednesday 4th June, 10:00am – 11:30am

We’re back to business as usual in June with our masterclasses. Join Steve in this session on using Volunteer Groups in TeamKinetic. He covers everything you need to know about using groups – from creating them to how you can use them to manage your volunteers even more effectively.

Volunteer groups are a great function and our customers have used them in all sorts of novel ways. From producing more targeted comms to restricting opportunities, groups are possibly an underused and underrated feature! Are you using them to the best of their ability? Do you need some support with them? Come along to this masterclass and become a master of grouping your volunteers.

You can see all upcoming training sessions and masterclasses within your system by going to Help & Support → Extra Training.

We’re also always looking for new topics to cover in these Masterclasses. If there’s anything regarding the TeamKinetic system that you’re not quite sure on, you can suggest it and we’ll add it to our list of topics to cover.

Please email alex@teamkinetic.co.uk with the subject ‘Masterclass Suggestion’, or use the live chat function on our website to pop in and suggest it there.

Our Last Masterclass

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Other bits and bobs…

TeamTalk Pod – On a Break

We’re in the early stages of planning season four of our TeamTalk podcast, so stay tuned! If you feel like you have a story to share, please do get in touch via pod@teamkinetic.co.uk

Never listened to the podcast before? You can catch it on Spotify below, or YouTube via this link.

Other stories:

• Our Partner News and Events
• What’s Happening in the Third Sector?
• TeamKinetic User Events

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