“The day reinforced knowledge I had and gives me confidence that I am on the right track in my volunteer coordinator role” |
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The 2008 State Volunteer Congress, Uncrossing the Wires, proved a great way to celebrate International Volunteer Day on Friday 5 December for over 300 attendees at the National Wine Centre in Adelaide, South Australia. The event featured a special welcome address by our new Minister for Volunteers, Hon Paul Caica MP who also presented certificates to TAFE volunteer management graduates. |
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MC Gary Edwards bemuses the Congress audience with another of his tricks |
Other highlights included a lively radio forum presented and broadcast by Radio Adelaide, information sessions and an internet cross to Germany, all magically held together by MC and Keynote, Mr Gary Edwards.
Minister Caica with TAFE graduate Bernadette Reading |
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The Radio Forum - Titled, Can you hear me? The challenges of communication in volunteer organisations, the radio forum was presented by Deb Welch and Nikki Marcel from Radio Adelaide. The forum was recorded and broadcast on Radio Adelaide’s Public Domain 10-11 am, on Sunday 14 December 2008. Listen to the podcast of the live forum here left: Deb Welch and Cathy Chong enjoying participating in the Radio Forum |
| “The Pathway to Employment session was very informative: well presented, facilitated and cleary spoken" | ||
The Interactive sessions - These sessions focused in on key communication issues, where Congress participants had the opportunity to have their say and share their ideas and experiences with expert facilitators on a range of topics. Participants chose to attend two sessions, one from each of the following groups: |
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| Group A 1. Challenging What We Do: New Approaches to Volunteering 2. Wikkis, Websites, Blogs & Ouija Boards?: Make the web work for you 3. Send a message: Reaching new volunteers |
Group B 4. Plugging in the corporates: The real benefits of corporate volunteering? 5. Volunteering: A pathway to employment? 6. Surfing the Same Wave: New arrivals & volunteering |
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Session Facilitators and Presenters — (18 kb PDF) Session Outline Sheet — (29 kb PDF) Feedback/Themes Sheet — (22 kb PDF)
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 Steph Ball from the Office for Youth presenting in the Send a Message: Reaching New Volunteers session |
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Live Internet Cross to Germany- As an interesting new slant to the program, Ms Jayne Cravens, the former Head of the United Nations Virtual Volunteering Project, was beamed in live from Germany to discuss the basics of virtual volunteering with the audience. Despite some technical problems in getting an audio connection, perseverance paid off and a relieved Andy Fryar from OZvpm was able to talk with Jayne and take questions from the floor. So if you want to talk more with her get in touch! |
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Jayne Cravens from CoyoteCommunications
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The Office for Volunteers thanks all who attended and contributed to the 2008 State Volunteer Congress |
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