This recording has closed captions in both Welsh and English, simply click on the closed captions symbol CC on the video below and select your preferred language.  This recording is 28 minutes in length.

This session was recorded at Digital Heritage Lab’s Digital Skills Day and produced as part of the Digital Heritage Lab ― a digital skills development programme for small to medium-sized heritage organisations in the UK and was funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage initiative.

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How to find digital volunteers to help you carry out your digital activities

As Curator of The Food Museum in Stowmarket, Suffolk, Kate Knowlden manages the museum’s ‘Search for the Stars’ digitisation project, which has had fantastic success working with digital volunteers as the museum tackles the digitisation of its collection. In this resource, Kate shares her experience of recruiting digital volunteers ― what to look for, where to find people, the interviewing and induction process, and the management of volunteers. It includes volunteer testimonials.

 

Video: Banishing the backlog with digital volunteers

There are many challenges and benefits of working with remote-based digital volunteers. In this case study Kate Knowlden from the The Food Museum (formerly Museum of East Anglian Life) shares her experience of working on the museum’s ‘Search for the Stars’ project, which is using remote-working digital volunteers to help transfer the museum’s 40,000 paper-based object records over to its online collections management system. Kate talks about the museum’s process of recruiting, training and supporting digital volunteers.

 

Managing volunteers with digital tools

Technology can offer new ways of managing volunteers, a crucial asset in the heritage sector. This resource explores how digital tools can be used in the recruitment, screening, training and scheduling of your volunteers.

 

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Please attribute as: "Video: How digital can support the volunteering journey (2022) by Stephan Stockton MBE supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, licensed under CC BY 4.0