Posts Tagged ‘National Conference on Volunteering and Service’
National Conference on Volunteering & Service – a recap
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
SnapImpact made a grand showing at NCVS this year! With Rich Grote, Dave Angulo, & Fiona Schlachter leading the charge, we had an exciting coming-out party. Here’s a quick summary, in interview mode, with Rich Grote in his best fake Australian accent. You’ll have to use your imagination, but we’re laughing.
Me: Hey Rich! You just got back from NCVS! How’d it go?
Rich: G’day.
Rich: It was great. Really funtastic. F’in awesome. Got to hang out with the Flotus. You know, the First Lady of the United States. Brilliant. And Fiona got to see her rock star crush, Bon Jovi. Although he was kind of a soft rock Bon Jovi. Last thing you want to do is have ladies knickers thrown at you in a Volunteer conference.
Me: Uh, that’s great. Ladies underware and Michele Obama in the same thought. Didn’t you launch Snap Impact there?
Rich: We didn’t launch it, just demo’ed. We talked to the good folks from Volunteer Match and HandsonNetwork, you know they’re the two big dingos in the playground. And they loved us so much that they agreed to lob us their data as their iPhone partner. Then there was AllForGood.org. Some of the Google people and some of the Craigslist people got together and decided to make all the volunteer info easy to get to. They created AllForGood.org, and they’re already kickin the data over to Serve.gov. Pretty slick if you ask me. And that means we could stop focusing on data scrubbin’ and really focus on mobile apps, like our first baby iVolunteer on the iPhone.
Me: So does that mean AllForGood.org is partering with us?
Rich: Yes, except we’re in a race. AllForGood.org has said they want to use us as their iPhone app, but they also gave us a good kick in the arse in hinting we weren’t the only ones working on it. So our dev team has cranked into high gear and we’ll be launching the app hopefully this month. And Fiona wants to volunteer to help Jon Bon Jovi get his groove back.
Me: Well alrighty then. Sounds like a great event.
Rich: Fair dinkum mate. Wanna go grab a vegamite & a Fosters?
Weekly Update: Ambithasiant Lunar Waneshaft Edition
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
[iVolunteer's project team meets every Tuesday at 6:00 pm at the Van Heyst Group's offices on 719 Walnut Street in Boulder, and they never ask for a plug, Godbless'em. We like to do it anyway, even if you'll never use them. Today's fact: They put on conferences. Not the Trekkies kind or the Furries kind, but more "innovative forums for global thought leaders and senior executives." So, in other words, not me. On to the update.]
First, we’ll take a brief moment so you can stand and applaud our three newest iVolunteerers – Dan Hellman, Rick Saltzman, and Brett Greene!
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Okay, okay, that’s plenty. They’re still noobs, after all. And they will be hazed this time! I will not be the only one!
A lot of news coming fast and furious out of the development (a.k.a. Nerd) team:
- We have a scriplet version of Interest Areas for Facebook.
- We are completing iPhone filter page development this week.
- Dave will complete ipconversion by Thu for Neil to continue WordPress plugin development.
- Dave fixed data feed and is optimizing to load quicker and will push to server this week.
- We have successfully figured out how to encabulate retroactively as this video explains. I think that means we can now travel through time, but I’ll double-check that with the techies, just to be sure.
If you understood what any of that meant, then faaaaantastic. In fact, if you’re in the Denver/Boulder area join our Facebook group, and come to our next working sesh. Especially if you like being more employable, because you’ll be able to learn all kinds of stuff about iPhoneDev, Facebook App Dev, and other things that now are closing $3 million funding rounds. Learn how to make three million dollars from geniuses. That’s what we’re offering, here.
On the BizDev side, I guess we don’t have that much to report, you know, except for, oh yeah, this little thing about us getting the call to be the featured iPhone partner for HandsOn Network, more or less the biggest volunteer-opportunity-finder in the country, and also for the National Conference on Volunteering and Service on June 22nd-24th. Which is totally splendiforous on the surface, yet means we have to do all this in the next 37 days.
Here’s a few ways you can help:
One (Less than a minute): Go vote for HandsOn Network, our new partner, to receive more money from Target. The more votes they get, the more resources they have to accomplish the dream of creating a global, mobile, and instant volunteering force to give aid in the largest and smallest of crises.
Two (a few minutes): Go to this page and enter iVolunteer in the “Designation” field for whatever amount you can give. Our meetings run on pizza and beer, which doesn’t cost more than $60 or so every meeting. Even a few bucks would totally go a long way.
Three (a couple hours): Join our Facebook group, and stay abreast (yes, I wrote that) of all upcoming meetings. Drop in sometime. Considering the fact that we’re now launching different parts of the service over the next month, culminating in a huge coming-out party. If you’ve ever wanted to learn Product Launching, PR, or Strategic Fundraising (or if you just want to pad your resume in those areas), we always need more big brains attached to little beer-and-pizza-holes to sit in. To repeat: We are launching a technology product nationally and need help from anyone who’s got a couple hours to spare! Be a part of something cool.
Plus, we’ll let you in on our time-traveling device. As soon as we get more prefamulated amulite and a flux capacitor.
We’ll be revealing another big surprise soon, so be sure to follow us on Twitter. In the meantime, stay classy, Colorado!
-Josh
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