Sunday, March 25, 2012

Help a Fellow Human Being Today

Help a Fellow Human Being Today
Love. Simply finding ways to express your love to others, whether it be your partner, child, other family member, friend, co-worker, or a complete stranger … just express your love. A hug, a kind word, spending time, showing little kindnesses, being friendly … it all matters more than you know.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Email Reminders for Volunteer Tasks

Today HelpTime has implemented new functionality regarding email reminders for volunteer tasks.

By default, users will receive email notifications for tasks they are assigned to. A volunteer can maintain their default setting by checking or unchecking the email reminder notification on any event

Sunday, March 11, 2012

HelpTime Highlights - March 2012




HelpTime Highlights – March 2012

Free Online Event Management Site Makes Coordinating Volunteers Easy!
News Update:
As the number of volunteers continues to grow, HelpTime has been busy working on several exciting enhancements. We are nearing 1,500 members that support their causes with the aid of the free HelpTime tool. Over 250 events across the US and in the UK are finding it easier to manage their volunteer activities. Our major recent enhancement was an update to the steps used in creating an event. Now when you create an event, just follow the workflow with “Back” and “Next” buttons to populate a few simple screens and you have created your volunteer signup form. It’s that easy, and it is still as easy as click to signup for your volunteers!

HelpTips … A New way of viewing and sharing your event sign up page
A new addition to HelpTime is the ability to view your sign up page from any event maintenance screen..

At any time you can select view to see your current signup page
HelpTime can send signup requests for you from the communicate tab, but if you decide to share the your signup page on your own, just press the scissor to copy the link to your signup page. You can paste it in you own email, website or social network.
Recent enhancements:
  • Creating an event now follows a simple workflow where you use the “NEXT” and “BACK” button to walk through a few screens that create and share your event sign up form.
  • The sign on page and registration page have been placed together making it easier for new members to register.
  • Event Administrators can now assign volunteers to tasks directly from the event signup page. This is done with the “Switch to Admin View” button – this is visible only to the event administrators.
  • The events shown on the event finder screen are now sorted with the most recent to end event at the top of the list
  • When creating or updating an event, you can view the signup form from any tab with the “view” selection at the top right event tab. – You can also use the scissor to copy a link to the sign up page and share it on your own.
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Friday, March 9, 2012

HelpTime idea for today - Offer to babysit


HelpTime idea for today
Offer to babysit. Sometimes parents need a break. If a friend or other loved one in your life doesn’t get that chance very often, call them and offer to babysit sometime. Set up an appointment. It can make a big difference.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

HelpTime idea for today - Lend your voice


HelpTime idea for today
Lend your voice. Often the powerless, the homeless, the neglected in our world need someone to speak up for them. You don’t have to take on that cause by yourself, but join others in signing a petition, speaking up a a council meeting, writing letters, and otherwise making a need heard.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

How to assign volunteers to tasks

Ideally you would like people to sign up for tasks on their own, but sometimes they just tell you that they will help and do some task.  In that case you can assign them to a task.

With your volunteers and tasks already created - you go to the sign up page.  As an event administrator you will see a button "Switch to Admin View".  Selecting this button will make each task maintainable where you can select a volunteer to assign.

Friday, March 2, 2012

HelpTime introduces new Create Event workflow



HelpTime is please to announce that 
today we have rolled out our new 
Create Event workflow.


When you select Create Event you will be walked through a few easy to complete screens
 with the use of Next and Back buttons.

 After your event is created you can always come back and maintain any section with the simple tabs located above your event data.



                                      
In addition, you can now view or copy the event sign up page from the top right of any event maintenance screen.  Select "view" to see the signup screen or select the scissors to copy a link of the signup page so you can post it in your own email, web page or social network





HelpTime idea for today - Create a care package



HelpTime idea for today 

Create a care package. Soup, reading material, tea, chocolate … anything you think the person might need or enjoy. Good for someone who is sick or otherwise in need of a pick-me-up.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Help a Fellow Human Being Today -Smile and be friendly


Help a Fellow Human Being Today
Sometimes a simple little thing like this can put a smile and warm feeling in someone else’s heart, and make their day a little better. They might then do the same for others.