The document proposes creating an online platform to support youth volunteering. It would allow young people to discover volunteer opportunities, apply, create opportunities, accept positions, mentor others, participate, record experiences, and review activities. The platform would integrate online and offline services using open technologies. It aims to inspire young people by providing rich descriptions of real volunteer experiences and enabling self-organization and connections through social features. The goal is for the platform to be youth-led and benefit the entire volunteering sector through collaborative development and shared learnings.

1. Everybody working together

2. anatomy of a tweet
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3. anatomy of a tweet
P&G (the soap in soap operas) cut TV ads by
44% last quarter, but increased internet
spending by 200+%. http://bit.ly/15X1x0
(via @clayshirky)
wdowen, Sun 14 jun 21:39 via Search
P&G (the soap in soap operas) cut TV ads by
44% last quarter, but increased internet
spending by 200+%. http://bit.ly/15X1x0
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8. http://bit.ly/15X1x0

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isn’t it

10. mass-media: broadcasting controlled
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13. daily reach (percentage internet users)
facebook.com bbc.co.uk
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0
Jan 2008 Jan 2009
source: alexa.com

14. in 2005 8% of UK 48% of UK internet
internet users had a users have uploaded
profile on a social photos, 32% have
network uploaded videos
- in 2008 it was 35%
66% of UK internet 64m people use
users have read flickr.com. They
blogs, and 25% have upload 3m photos
created one each day
source: McCann March ʻ08

15. online, as in the real world, people like to
do things together, for a common cause

17. social media: internet-based tools for
sharing stuff and organising activity
free shared open portable bottom up
rich mixed visual anyone service network

18. make
share
use

19. If what we’re doing is right, and if we
give them the tools, young people will
do the marketing and organising for us
(and be better at it than we are)

21. everyone’s a media-owner

22. everyone’s a media-owner

23. people want to tell their own stories

24. everyone’s a media-owner

26. New spaces for young people
the rules of engagement

27. Build the story, layer by layer
(give activists and involved people tools and media to do
it for you, trust them to act for the common good)

29. More useful = more engaging
(“real engagement is when people do things you didn’t
ask them to”)

31. Make it personal
People trust institutions less and less, but want to be
valued and recognised members of communities

33. Connect to the wider web

35. Decentralise, release control
(“the social web is disruptive, but some members of the
SMT are still resisting”*)
*@SteveBridger

36. is this your organisation?

37. Cut across silos
Share experience, budget, web team resource, more like
a network, bust out of silos, new roles (community
manager, digital advocate...), new structures

38. organise around campaigns,
not functions

39. Integrate all services and
communication activities,
online and offline

40. offline website social web

41. Use open APIs, open source
software, modular development
frameworks, rich media

42. Video Mapping
Events
Bus location
Bus route
July 2009 Bus timetable
Video classes
Video creation
June 2009 Video editing
Bluetooth and MMS enabled
Photos
bus.vinspired.com
Bus blog
Blog
Bus carbon Blog
calculator
Blogging
Video Blog
Tweet
Tweet
Radio 1
Facebook groups and events
Tweet
‘Spot the bus’ competitions
Favour
chain

47. Inspiring a new generation -
the research shows what works...
...rich descriptions
...real people, real experiences
...in groups, with friends
...quick response
How did vinspired.com stack up?

48. Discover
Advertise
Apply
Create
Accept
Mentor
Participate
Review
Record
lifecycle of a volunteering opportunity

49. Discover
Advertise
Apply
Create
Accept
Mentor
Participate
Review
Record
lifecycle broken after search and apply

50. anatomy of a volunteering opportunity

51. Settings
Prefer-
ences Identity Location
Viewed
Pics
Videos
Rewards
Activities
Ratings Content
Skills
Reviews
Diary
Groups
Friends
anatomy of a volunteer

52. Search
Collaborative
filter
Personal
preferences
+
Skills matching
Friend finding
Most interesting
creating a marketplace

56. serving the whole experience
rich inspiring descriptions
personal, secure
real people visible
tools for self-organisation
a two-way marketplace
connected to the wider web

57. open API

58. 5. Everybody working together

59. a working trial to discover what works!
created with - and by - young people
make learnings available to the sector
one platform, benefiting all V programmes
everybody working together

60. “an online community, supporting youth-
led volunteering, virtual volunteering and
an interactive on-line market place where
young people can promote their skills and
interests to volunteer-involving
organisations, enabling a two-way
recruitment process”
Russell Commission report