Contact Information
· The main contact screen has a place for a picture of the volunteer.
· Secondary email address – emails are automatically sent to both addresses (cc’d to the secondary one)
· At least one email is required on the online application form application (not when you add a volunteer though)
· Province/State list is driven by country selection. (E.G. if USA is selected then only the American states will appear.)
Availability
· We’ve added a new section for general time availability – Sunday through Saturday: morning, afternoon, evening, night.
· There is a new section to show the customizable general interests with simple tick boxes for volunteers to indicate their interests.
Availability / Assign
· Just like you can filter to show only Monday shifts (for example) you can filter on the individual shift in 3.0 (eg show only the Monday morning shifts). From there you can assign a volunteer to all of them.
New Hours Log Tab
· Data input section for adding hours right in the volunteer’s profile
· Display includes key stats such as hours worked this year and to date, shifts to date, hours by month, last ten hours logs (like on MVP) and outcomes to date
Miscellaneous
· Active and approved statuses have been combined into one field and new statuses to reflect the whole volunteer lifecycle have been added to the – Applicant, In process, Accepted, Inactive (short term or long term) or Archived (resigned, fired, moved, deceased).
More new features will be posted every couple of days.
Come back on Wednesday for Activity Profile Upgrades.
More new features will be posted every couple of days.
Come back on Wednesday for Activity Profile Upgrades.
Like the looks of the new updates, particularly the status changes for the volunteers. Should make that easier for us to properly categorize our volunteers year to year as we are a seasonal event and see significant turnover each year.
ReplyDeleteYes looks terrific
ReplyDeleteI can already see a couple of hours of my time saved with photos on profiles and compulsory email addresses at signup. I know my volunteers will definitely appreciate the option to indicate their general availability too and I appreciate somewhere to easily record this!
ReplyDeleteIt's so exciting to see some of the things that I've thought in the back of my head "That'd sure be useful," or even mentioned in an eMail to the support team, being incorporated into the next release!
ReplyDeleteThanks for listening to the users, it is appreciated. My team will like the changes so that volunteers can show their availability, that the picture profile is upfront and the clarity for "status" as they sign on
ReplyDeleteWe have volunteers in three countries - USA, UK and naturally Australia. Will the new feature allow us to select the UK county or US state if that is the home of our volunteer - what is the impact of Language on this? - will sequencing on entry be country entered and then province/state selected.
ReplyDeletelove the 2 e-mail addresses.
ReplyDeleteNew status's look good - with umbrella and 5 impacts, we have a process of applicant in central impact / in process in central impact / accepted (after police checks, etc) / placed in role (linked to Impact for rostering) (any chance of a status to reflect this). We use Inactive as well. With the proposed 'Archived' will retrieval of Custom Field and Qualification info still be possible (also hours, etc)
Thank you for your comments and questions Anne.
ReplyDeleteYes, you will be able to select the U.K. county or U.S. state based on the country selected in the volunteer's profile. You can select the U.S. state in the current version but it is in a list of states and provinces from various countries. Only the ones related to the country selected in the volunteer profile will be present after the upgrade.
And yes, the information in custom fields, qualifications and hours will be retrievable from archived volunteers.