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TeamKinetic Best Practice: What Makes a Successful Site Launch

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On 10th January 2024

In News & Views, TeamKinetic Best Practice, TeamKinetic Features

We’re delighted to welcome any organisation to TeamKinetic. Besides creating software that works best for you and your volunteers, we want to help you make all aspects of your site launch successful! From pre-go-live communications to additional training, make the most of your site launch with the help of the following pointers.  

Pre-go-live Comms 

Communicating features and integrations is a valuable part of your overall communications strategy before your site goes live. Create a pre-go-live checklist to ensure that you spread maximum awareness of your launch. In your Implementation Guide, there is a checklist for optimising your TeamKinetic site, but you may want to go the extra mile. Include both volunteers and admin in your campaign. Span your communications across email, social media, your website and location. This will create a smooth transition for your admins and build anticipation amongst your volunteers. A new-found potential for volunteer impact is an inspiring message! Draw attention to the issues that you sought TeamKinetic to solve, in particular the issues that will resonate with your current volunteers. For example, difficulty notifying volunteers about shift changes.

Outlining Features and Integrations

If you have our enterprise package, you can fully customise your site with a unique set of features and integrations. Other versions are also customisable, just to a smaller extent. TeamKinetic works with your specific organisation and volunteers in mind. There is no doubt that your volunteers will want to know about the improvements to their volunteer experience! 

Our Tempo Time Credits and First Advantage integrations are other talking points. With Tempo, as your volunteers log hours on your TeamKinetic site, they will be granted real-life rewards. Rewards include activities, products or services. With volunteering taking somewhat of a downward turn due to the cost of living crisis and people’s lack of ‘free’ time, tangible rewards are a fantastic motivation.

Additional Training

Another way to make the transition to TeamKinetic smooth for your volunteers is to provide training sessions. We suggest having up to five admins. These admins can all join a TeamKinetic online training session at no extra cost. New admins are free to join our quarterly open training sessions. Or, address any additional training requirements with a one-to-one training session.

Running a similar form of training for your volunteers will help ease the transition to TeamKinetic. This is especially true for those who are not as accustomed to the online world. An optional training session in the run-up to your site launch will benefit you and your volunteers in the long run. You could even pre-record a show around of your TeamKinetic site or create a ‘cheat sheet’ for volunteers to access at their convenience. Let volunteers know about training or any additional materials during your pre-go-live communications. 

Using your Online Voice

As part of your pre-go-live communications, create a social media campaign that showcases integrations, use-cases, and promotes your online training sessions, for example. Your audience will become familiar with the idea of your new volunteer management system and be in support of the benefits. If you utilise social media, you may also gain the attention of those who have yet to volunteer with your organisation. 

If your TeamKinetic site is in partnership with multiple organisations within your area, the same goes for providers. As we explore in our ‘4 Ways to Attract More Volunteers’ blog, if all partners post about opportunities hosted on your TeamKinetic site, reach is maximised. You may choose to execute a cross-channel campaign that is contributed to by all organisations within your partnership. Showing provider profile pages will make it clear who volunteers will be engaging with. This strengthens the credibility and distribution of your content, and, in turn, your TeamKinetic site.

The same goes for linking to your main organisation’s website. Pre-launch, many volunteers will be used to going to your website for volunteering-related information. Ensure that they are appropriately redirected and informed about the purpose of your new TeamKinetic site. We explore this further here.

Helping the More Traditional Volunteer

Alongside running training sessions for those who might be less digitally savvy, it is helpful to have some computers or tablets at your organisation’s location. Volunteers may want to sign up and navigate your TeamKinetic site for the first time with help to hand. Of course, if you have the means, it would benefit certain volunteers if computers or tablets were constantly available. Our new app further simplifies the volunteer experience on TeamKinetic. 

You can invite your existing volunteers to your TeamKinetic site and volunteer opportunities with the ‘invite’ feature. This is another way to create a smooth transition to using TeamKinetic. For those who may not have been exposed to your online pre-go-live campaign, including signage at your location could be the catalyst for less digitally savvy volunteers to sign up to your TeamKinetic site.

Next Steps

Share why you’re excited about TeamKinetic with your volunteers! The period leading up to your site launch is transitional. Knowing what to say, where to say it, and to who to say it to is the foundation of a successful site launch.

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TeamKinetic 2.4.1 Minor Release

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On 25th October 2023

In News & Views, TeamKinetic Features, Technical Updates

The latest minor release is out in the wild now. Here are the big things to watch out for in the new TeamKinetic update.

Tempo Time Credit Integration

This is super exciting and we will be covering this in some other posts and communications.

If you join the Tempo Time Credit scheme, your volunteers will be able to exchange hours they log in TeamKinetic for real-world rewards in their local area. It’s a fantastic way to reward and recognise your volunteers.

The process is fully integrated and volunteers can register and exchange hours from right within the TeamKinetic app. You can find out more on the Tempo website.

Please fill out this form if you’re interested: https://forms.gle/ryvW7cs3yGJGNnV26

TeamKinetic update: screenshot showing Tempo Time Credits integration

First Advantage Digital Check Integration

Another first for volunteer management software. We have integrated the First Advantage digital and criminal check service right into the TeamKinetic app.

As an admin, all you need to do is select the volunteer whose identity you want to check or perform a criminal check on and hit a single button! The volunteer will be contacted to download an identity check app to their phone, proceed to verify their identity, and then the criminal check will be performed and the results fed straight back into TeamKinetic. We expect most checks to be completed within 48 hours.

It’s also possible to perform in-person identity checks and just use the service to complete the criminal check if you are satisfied with the documents presented.

If you’re interested in integrating your identity and criminal checks directly into your volunteer programme, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/ryvW7cs3yGJGNnV26

TeamKinetic update: image showing the integrated criminal check process

Gender and Birth Sex

We have now successfully decoupled our gender and birth sex questions. Previously we collected the birth sex answer as part of the gender question and you might have noticed that Female/Male was always appended to your own gender list.

We used this answer to define a birth sex of female or male so that if opportunity creators restricted an opportunity by sex we could correctly identify those volunteers that matched.

We’ve been monitoring the usage of the sex-restricted opportunities and it has been going down and down so we decided it was the right time to break this a little so we can get our gender/sex position correct.

You’ll see two new options in the Super Admin Settings > Options menu under the registration section that you can use to switch on/off the Birth Sex and Gender questions. If enabled the questions will be asked at registration and also within the volunteers profile.

If your organisation has no sex-restricted opportunities then the birth sex question will be switched off. We have also retained the female/male responses in your gender lists, but they are now editable, and if you wish you could remove them and use cisgender or whatever your organisation prefers.

Screenshot showing changes to the sex/gender questions in the registration form

Disability and Support Questions

We have also split up this section into two optional registration questions so you can choose to ask if a volunteer considers themselves disabled and/or if they have any extra support issues. We know that for some organisations it is not appropriate to ask or record if a volunteer is disabled but it’s still useful to know about any support issues you can help with.

These options can be found in the REGISTRATION section of the Super Admin Settings > Options menu.

Along with the now optional sex and gender questions you can now have a really minimal registration page which we would always advocate if you don’t need the extra data.

Screenshot showing the volunteer registration form without any gender/sex questions

Auto Deletion of Volunteers

We recognise that storing old data can be an issue, both for GDPR and reporting. It has always been possible to delete volunteers based on a filter like login activity but it was manual. We have added a new feature where you can switch on auto deletion and enter the period of inactivity after which to remove the volunteers.

Matching volunteers will be marked for deletion if they have not logged in within the period you specify, which is 12 months by default. Then after 48 hours, they will be removed and their hours saved in the usual way for deleted volunteers.

Recording No-Shows

For some of our customers, no-shows can be a real issue and while it has been possible to check volunteers in via the day schedule report page, and for volunteers to self-report as a no-show, we’ve not supported an admin method to record the no-show.

You can now do this for single or multiple sessions in the past from the Log Hours section of the opportunity management page. This data is being recorded and once we have some more to work with we will be reporting this data back via the reporting pages and volunteer management page.

Screenshot showing how users can record a no-show volunteer within TeamKinetic now

Volunteer Status

In the past we have had three possible statuses for a volunteer; newly registered with no access, access granted, and access revoked. We have extended this to include a retired status, a revoked due to safeguarding issues, and an under-review status. These status changes have also been added to the webhook actions so your connected applications can be notified when a volunteer’s status changes.

Screenshot showing the different volunteer access options

More Automated Notifications

We’ve added a few more email notifications to try and streamline the pre and post-session operation.

If you utilise the custom opp joining email to let your volunteers know more details about the opportunity once they have joined, then we will resend that email the day before a volunteer’s next session, just to remind them!

We have also added an editable post-opportunity period setting so that you can control how long after a volunteer’s last session on an opportunity they receive the post-opp reminder email (or you can switch it off entirely). If the opportunity has a post-opp survey or document this will be appended to the email.

Screenshot showing the TeamKinetic settings for Email Notifications

The eagle-eyed amongst you will also notice in that screenshot that you can now also choose to include or exclude events in the weekly email newsletter that is sent every Friday.

There is of course, as always, the usual bug fixes and small changes that we hope make your day-to-day interaction with TeamKinetic better and better.

Many thanks to all our customers who open support tickets and new feature requests that helped shape this TeamKinetic update…keep them coming in!

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TeamKinetic Best Practice: Signposting – In-Person

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On 19th October 2023

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In-person, or place-based, signposting is often the first step in a volunteer’s journey. A visual queue can be very provoking! Just like you might update your current noticeboard with news and events, update it with ongoing and new volunteering opportunities. Signpoisitng volunteering opportunities on-site or across your organisation’s locations is a brilliant way to inspire those who have an existing affinity with your organisation, or, are simply passing by.

TeamKinetic aids the creation of physical volunteering opportunity advertisements with the ‘Print’ tool. Press ‘Print’ on an opportunity to generate a poster. The poster includes the opportunity details you entered and a QR code to the opportunity page. Existing employees can also download a volunteering opportunity list as a CSV or PDF. This is especially useful when looking to fill skill-based opportunities that may be best suited to those with existing knowledge of your organisation.

If you want to get even more creative, Canva and Adobe are useful tools for creating free signage or posters. Design your poster to be visually appealing and informative. Don’t forget to include the opportunity QR code linked to your TeamKinetic site! With the QR code, volunteers can scan, view and join the opportunity via their mobile phone.

Best Practice Inspiration

This is an example of best practice in-person signposting by A.C.E. A.C.E’s inclusion of location and contact details and a thorough ‘Opportunity Description’ make for an informative poster generated using TeamKinetic’s ‘Print’ tool.

More Signposting Best Practice!

For guidance on other best practice signposting methods including website signposting, search engine signposting and social media signposting, click here.

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TeamKinetic Best Practice: Signposting – Search Engine Optimisation

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On 19th October 2023

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The Importance of Signposting for Search Engine Optimisation

You may be surprised by how many people scout out volunteering opportunities online before inquiring or joining an opportunity. Even with all the best in-person signposting, you will not appear in an online search without effectively signposting your volunteering opportunities on your organisation’s website and TeamKinetic site! The aim of search engine optimisation (SEO) is for your organisation’s TeamKinetic site to appear at the top of the search engine, e.g. Google, results page. Therefore, an important element of best practice signposting is search engine optimisation. As outlined below, effective signposting for search engine optimisation includes updated content, location data, detailed opportunity descriptions and links.

How?

When creating an opportunity, be sure to provide a detailed ‘Opportunity Description’, list any ‘Benefits & Perks’, ‘Skills Required’ and ‘Search Tags’. Therefore, when people are searching for volunteering opportunities, either on a search engine or within your TeamKinetic site itself, there is more likelihood that the keywords used will match up. If a volunteering opportunity is long-standing, it is a good idea to update the ‘details’ so that your site’s content is accurate and fresh. Websites that have regularly refreshed content tend to rank higher on the search engine results page.

Besides being a crucial element of a volunteering opportunity, including location data in your volunteering opportunity is a factor in search engine optimisation. When creating an opportunity, select ‘Pick the Location’ and enter the address details. Those browsing online for volunteering opportunities will be doing so via an IP address linked to their location. If your volunteering opportunities contain location data, those who are nearby are more likely to see your TeamKinetic site at the top of their search results page.

Including inbound links to your own website, news feed, or blogs can also boost your chances of ranking highly on the search results page. A good place to include a link to your organisation’s website would be the ‘About Us’ and ‘Home’ pages on your TeamKinetic site. Volunteering opportunities could include a link to your volunteering-related website news feed within the ‘Opportunity Description’. As with signposting on your organisation’s main website and social media, including links to your TeamKinetic site adds continuity across your organisation’s online platforms. High online presence raises SEO.

Best Practice Inspiration

An example of best practice signposting for search engine optimisation is Glasgow Life‘s TeamKinetic ‘Home’ page. Glasgow Life has included various outbound links; linking to their organisation’s main website under the ‘Back to Glasgow Life Volunteering Homepage’ button, to volunteer registration under the ‘Register Now!’ link, a ‘log in’ link, and registration buttons depending on whether a site visitor is ‘Interested in Volunteers?’ or ‘Recruitng Volunteers?’.

More Signposting Best Practice!

For guidance on other best practice signposting methods including in-person signposting, website signposting and social media signposting, click here.

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TeamKinetic Best Practice: Signposting – Website

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On 19th October 2023

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The Importance of Website Signposting

For most organisations, their website is the go-to destination for information about what they do, where to find them and who to contact. Therefore, signposting your TeamKinetic site on your organisation’s main website is best practice. Showcasing your current volunteering opportunities inspires involvement with your organisation. Continuity between your website and TeamKinetic site helps to create a more rounded picture of your organisation. This way, volunteers can have insight into their impact and how this benefits the purpose of your organisation. 

How?

If possible, be sure to update your volunteering website features regularly. This is key for ensuring you come to the top of online search results. If you have an existing ‘news’ feed, recent and current volunteering events will fit in nicely. Entice those browsing your website with past and present volunteering projects, events and initiatives. Also, collect volunteer testimonies and feature them alongside the opportunity details. Hearing from a volunteer helps to assure prospective volunteers that your organisation is welcoming and personable. 

Include a call to action button! For example, ‘Volunteer with us’ or ‘Volunteer now!’. This can be in addition to more detailed opportunity descriptions, or as a stand-alone prompt. If you have less time or resources to create a volunteering news-style feed, simply linking to your TeamKinetic website via a call to action button will be effective. You can link to any relevant area of your TeamKinetic system; specific opportunities, your TeamKinetic homepage or volunteer registration.  

Using volunteering-related keywords in your website will mean that those looking for volunteering opportunities with your organisation, or similar, are more likely to be directed to your organisation’s website. Signposting volunteering news and opportunities on your website is a simple way to increase your chances of ranking higher in search results. Optimising your TeamKinetic page for Google search is explored in the TeamKinetic Best Practice – Search Engine Optimisation Signposting guide.

Best Practice Inspiration

An example of best practice website signposting would be Wiltshire Wildlife, who have a tab on their main organisation website that links directly to their TeamKinetic site. In addition to this, their ‘Blog’ and ‘News’ tabs feature regular volunteering opportunity-related updates and information.

More Signposting Best Practice!

For guidance on other best practice signposting methods including in-person signposting, search engine optimisation signposting and social media signposting, click here.

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TeamKinetic Best Practice: Signposting

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On 18th October 2023

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TeamKinetic is perfect for showcasing your volunteering opportunities, but how do you make the journey to registering as a volunteer clear and simple? You may already be doing one or more of the following, depending on the nature of your organisation. But, as you will see, it is vital to effectively signpost your volunteering opportunities across in-person and various digital spaces! This way, you will maximise your volunteer reach and outcomes.

For seamless volunteer signposting, ensure you:

  1. Direct volunteers via your organisation’s website
  2. Optimise your TeamKinetic site for search engines 
  3. Use in-person signage
  4. Utilise your social media platforms

Click any of the above for guidance on how and why to incorporate each signposting method.

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TeamKinetic Best Practice: Signposting – Social Media

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On 18th October 2023

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If you are a volunteering-involved organisation, don’t be quiet about it on social media! Social media signposting is best practice for attracting volunteers to your TeamKinetic. After creating an opportunity on your TeamKinetic site, there is an option to ‘Share’ to multiple channels including your organisation’s social media accounts under the ‘Promote’ tab on the left-hand toolbar. If your organisation already communicates with existing and prospective volunteers via their Facebook page, for example, then posting about volunteering opportunities on Facebook will increase your chances of attracting enthusiastic volunteers! Similarly, where enabled, your volunteering opportunities can be shared between different organisations’ TeamKinetic sites or national brokerage sites such as Do it, the Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) or the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO).

In addition to your website, regularly update your social media page with volunteering news. Post links to opportunity pages on your TeamKinetic site, and engage with other sector voices. For example, the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), the Association of Volunteer Managers (AVM) or Volunteer Scotland. Engaging with sector voices over social media draws attention to your organisation’s social media profile, and, in turn, drives traffic to your TeamKinetic site. Ways to engage with other organisations’ social media pages are; reposting and adding some of your thoughts, commenting on another page’s posts, or simply being active and liking posts that are of interest or relevance to your organisation. If links to your website and TeamKinetic site are present on your social media pages, either in your page’s ‘bio’ or within posts, your TeamKinetic site will be easy to find!

Best Practice Inspiration

An example of best practice social media signposting would be One Knowsley, who post a volunteering opportunity of the week feature across their social media pages. Including the opportunity link makes it quick and easy to view the opportunity page. Mentioning Guide Dogs improves One Knowsley’s chance of achieving a wider audience reach on Twitter.

More Signposting Best Practice!

For guidance on other best practice signposting methods including in-person signposting, website signposting and search engine signposting, click here.

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The Career Benefits of Volunteering

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On 16th August 2023

In News & Views, TeamKinetic Features

With 51% of people citing work commitments as their primary barrier to volunteering, encourage your volunteers to volunteer to enhance, or even advance, their career prospects. Drawing attention to the career benefits of volunteering helps people to view volunteering as something that connects with their lifestyle. Volunteering opportunities that appeal to a volunteer’s hard or soft skills can enrich various qualities that will benefit almost any career. 

Benefits

Whether you are a corporate organisation looking to increase volunteering within your workforce, or you are a volunteer-involved organisation from any other sector, there are career-related benefits for your volunteers. Benefits include:

Networking and Relationship Building

Volunteering involves relationship-building with volunteer managers, mentors, and fellow volunteers. Through volunteering, volunteers can meet like-minded professionals. As a result, a volunteer’s professional network expands, opening the door for future carer opportunities and connections. 

Being a proactive, engaged volunteer is one of the best ways to demonstrate commitment and enthusiasm. Showcasing such skills may also benefit a volunteer’s career when they require a reference. Providing your volunteers with ongoing constructive feedback is a great way to ensure that your organisation and volunteers are getting the most out of a volunteering opportunity. With Thumbs Up feedback and recognition OpenBadges, providing feedback is easy with TeamKinetic.

Volunteers with TeamKinetic users Avon Needs Trees

Industry Experience and Exposure

A volunteering opportunity does not always need to relate directly to a volunteer’s current career. In fact, volunteering is a fantastic chance to explore a new sector of interest. For example, if a volunteer’s ambition is to work within the healthcare sector but they not yet have experience or insight into this field, volunteering is an opportunity to witness the healthcare industry in action.

If a volunteer is not looking to make a career change, they can benefit their career by gaining additional practical experience within their sector. Through volunteering, volunteers may encounter tasks that are not yet accessible to them in the form of a paid role. This is particularly beneficial for those just starting out in their career and looking for experience.

Skills development 

Volunteering can develop, teach and enhance a variety of skills. As mentioned above, this is true for volunteering roles that do and do not relate to a volunteer’s current career. Stepping into a value-lead environment is a grounding experience for many volunteers. The contrast between a volunteering space and a work environment is an opportunity for volunteers to see the importance of empathy and building healthy working relationships. 

Giving talks about my career has helped my presentation and networking skills. If you can do a presentation for teenagers you can present to anyone! I have also gained mentoring skills which transfer well into people management at work.

Shereen, a volunteer with TeamKinetic users Stemettes

When looking to create volunteering opportunities that may benefit a volunteer’s career, you can think beyond so-called ‘unskilled’ roles. Although the volunteer-involved environment in and of itself benefits volunteers, many volunteers will have existing skills they are looking to develop or utilise. When creating an opportunity using TeamKinetic, this requirement can be made clear by providing details in the ‘Skills Required’ section. This way, you do not need to worry about volunteers being unprepared or unaware when beginning an opportunity.

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TeamKinetic 2.3.1 Minor Release

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On 6th June 2023

In Application Features and Tutorials, TeamKinetic Features, Technical Updates

Following on from 2.3.0 which was a pretty large minor release we have some new updates for you which came about from support tickets and chats about the latest version

Easier Volunteer Reporting

We get asked pretty regularly what ACTIVE means and how to find out how many active volunteers there are or other criteria about active volunteers. Active volunteers are those that have joined a session OR logged hours on a flexible opp between the dates selected.

To this end, we have split the basic reporting available for volunteers into an ACTIVE and a REGISTERED tab. So any figures you are looking at in the active section will represent volunteers that have joined a session OR logged hours on a flexible opp between the dates selected. The registered section will show the data for volunteers that have registered between the dates selected.

More Volunteer Search Filters

To help with discovering your active volunteers we have also added new filters called ACTIVE/INACTIVE to the volunteer search pages so you can search for activity or lack of it between dates.

If you need to find out how many volunteers have a pending application or have been waiting for a long time for their opp application to be processed you can use the new Application Status and Date Last Applied filters.

Block Access to Volunteer Uploads

Providers were able to always view the documents and qualifications that volunteers uploaded if the volunteer was linked to the provider. There is now a new super admin option where you can switch this off so that only administrators can view these documents.

Opportunity Promotion for Providers

Providers are now able to send the opportunity promotion email straight to all their linked volunteers via a checkbox in addition to being able to add emails manually.

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TeamKinetic 2.3.0 Minor Release

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On 12th April 2023

In Application Features and Tutorials, TeamKinetic Features, Technical Updates

For a minor release, this one is quite major! There are no breaking changes or anything huge but some great improvements.

Match ALL or ANY on the Volunteer Search Page

On the volunteer search page, you can now select ALL or ANY as the matching criteria. This means you could search for volunteers that are a member of any of a set of groups, or that live in any of a set of postcodes for instance.

Not Checked Option When Filtering

When filtering on custom questions that are checkboxes you can now filter by these boxes not being checked. Previously as nothing is stored when a box is unchecked this was not possible.

Volunteer Action Log

A great new feature that allows admins to check what has been happening with a particular volunteer. Currently, it displays what opps they have viewed, when they have logged hours, joined sessions, and so on. We’ll be extended this with more logged actions in future releases

Create a PDF of Opportunities

Find the opportunities you want to include in the PDF, click their checkboxes and you can now print a nicely formatted PDF with an opportunity on each page.

You get a few options of what to include in the printout and a handy QR code is included so volunteers can find the opp quickly on your website.

Multiple LinkWide Group Membership

For those of you that are in a LinkWide sharing group (get in touch if this sounds like something you would be interested in), you can now join multiple groups, each with its own sharing ruleset.

Editing Existing Resources

You can now edit your existing resources…no need to delete and recreate which is a real-time saver. Additionally, you can also edit the order in which the resources appear.

Select Specific Map Location When Creating Opps

We’ve added back in the ability to move the map marker when creating opps with the new opp creation screens, jsut as you could when editing an opportunity.

Email All Providers from Opp Selection

Previous to this release, when you select a number of opportunities from the opp search page it was only possible to email all the volunteers on those opps. You can now also email all the providers who created those opps. This is great for chasing up providers who have outstanding volunteer applications for their opps for instance.

Improved Email Logging

The storage of the plain text version of sent emails has been improved so you won’t see all the HTML stuff when looking at a volunteer or provider email log anymore.

Better Upload Image Support

We can now support all modern web image formats including WEBP when you are uploading images anywhere in the app.

 

Over 50 smaller fixes and improvements have also been added which I hope will make you even more productive day to day.

As always, we are ready to take your feedback and questions in all the normal channels.

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