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The Purpose of this group is to post the various Volunteer tasks and support Volunteers.  

Every volunteer should be a member of this Group

God has blessed us with many people coming forward and volunteering.  If you are interested in volunteering go to Volunteer Opportunities and fill out the volunteer application form which will enter you into the system. When that is complete return here and select a task you would like to help on or you can post ideas that you think would be helpful as a suggested new task.

 You were asked to create an account on the forum and to introduce yourself on forum  section 7-Bible.org Volunteer tasks and community Discussion  We will use this group to discuss tasks and the forum 7 in interact in a more peronal way and to help each other with problems that come up. For example: if you think that translation is your thing, what languages do you know that you could share and what articles do you think would be the best for your people.

We are still experimenting with the best way to assign tasks to our volunteers and collaborate with them. This week (9/13/09) we decided to use this group function for staff and volunteers to better facilitate the interaction and collaboration. 

  1.  Answer volunteer questions
  2.  To suggest new tasks
  3.  Volunteers to respond to a task
  4.  Staff to interact with other staff as well as interact with volunteers working on that task.

Instructions for posting in this group.

to staff and volunteers  ( As people volunteer, the  volunteer coordinator enters them into a spreadsheet: see  Volunteer Status & Assignments.)

  • For each task- make a new single group
    • To ask questions about a task - make a comment on each task
    • volunteer if you want to work on a task make a comment
  • To ask a question - make a new group post 

 

 

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Getting started task (mandatory for all volunteers)

Volunteer Task: Category: General getting Started task for (all volunteers)

Purpose: We would like all volunteers to gain familiarity with the site, the NETBible on line and the forum. This task is described at Getting started task (mandatory for all volunteers)  check it out there..

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tech:(not assigned) looking for a sword product manager to review our support for sword

sword is the major open source bible reader with readers for windows, linux,mac and they just released their mobile version. I have no one making sure our NETBible plays well on their platforms..  I need someone to lead those efforts//

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tech: (not assigned) looking to add chat to the site

looking to add chat to the site for user to user chat to talk about articles and studies

as well as support and sales of the netbible (as we launch our NETBible evangelists friends of ministry program.http://bible.org/bibleorg-evangelists-supporters-and-friends

 

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Tech (not assigned) put NETBible and Childrens material on one laptop per child (OLPC)

 OLPC imageTheir are millions of laptops and netbook and notebook computers going into the 3rd world under the program OLPC .

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TECH - (not assigned yet) maintaining a tech blog for web based ministries.

There are a lot of web based ministries out there. We would like to see someone start and maintain a blog that would let the web based ministries know about all the latest cool techy things including all the latest items from Bible.org. Possibly even test and review the items and maybe even show a best use practices. Like how to install a daily verse widget or what is the latest script that allows video to play on multi browsers. This would be for someone who loves to write, surf the net for the latest items and test and try them

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TECH: (not assigned yet) - adding the NET to collaborative worship planning tool

TECH TASK:adding the NET to collaborative worship planning tool

using this application add the NETBible to it

see  http://code.google.com/p/worship-organizer/

The goal of this application is to develop a web-based application to assist collaborative worship planning. It is being developed for use at a Presbyterian Church (USA), but should be general enough to be useful for other denominations as well.

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open to all- form a group around your ministry passion or ss class

 this is a general task open to all..

Demenstrate for others the function of users.bible.org to help bring people together for the cause of Christ... 

  1. this is a general task that users.bible.org supports for the Christian community
  2. .form a group around your ministrry passion or ss class and report on how to do it for others (screen cast)
  3. write up a lessons learn and what commitment from people your need up front for critical success to your group
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Facebook Link

Hello Everyone,

I hope this is the right place for this. Following the instructions from Dave's email, I joined this group and and attempted to link my facebook account. I noticed the "Facebook Connect" tab in my account profile and, selecting it,  it reads, "Your account is not linked with a Facebook account or you are not authorized to edit the Facebook connect settings of this account." How do I link my account? Also, I was not able to find the i.m. funtion that was advertised.

Al

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Open task: someone to create a web evangelism group

 There are several places on the web that discuss web evangelism. We need someone to pull that together

and lead a group here on users so all of us associated with web sites can do a more effective job

some places to start

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Open to all-Transcription Task

Volunteer Task: Transcription of Audio Sermons and Lessons
Purpose: To transcribe the thousands of audio sermons that have been given to Bible.org into a written language so that both the audio and the written are available to our readers.

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Open task- I would like all our active volunteers to be "trusted members" on this users site and to form the temporary "review board"

Jenn our users.bible.org admin is looking to put into place the management structure for this user run collaboration site.

She needs immediately

  1. 3 or 4 people to act as temporary review board members and
  2. 7 volunteers who will be the primary person to monitor the users site for inappropriate postings.
    1. . this is in addition to the trusted members

the scenario is supposed to work like...

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Tech (not assigned)- ( adding features that support community to users.bible.org)

we need some help on http://users.bible.org to continue to build a strong community platform for Christians worldwide.. We are starting with a strong CMS that allows our users to upload and share articles, blogs, and form groups so they can interact.

i would like to add some more facbook type capability into it..
add some Instant messageing and group discussion for people to train oneanother... 

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Screen casting

09/21/2009
America/Fort Wayne

Created Login at Screentoaster.com.

Begin Playing with different recording options.  Learning how to use the different "Create Content" Functions.

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Open task: Editing draft Written Materials

Volunteer Task : Editing of Written Materials

Purpose: Articles and/or items will be submitted to volunteer for assistance on grammar, spelling, and accuracy of information 

Tools needed: Word or Open Office

Description of Task:

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Open task: Enhance Support for Youth Workers

 Volunteer Task/Job:; Enhance support for Youth Workers

 Purpose/Rationale: bible.org needs strategic ideas/support/materials targeted to youth workers

1. Build strategies for youth workers; a framework for youth workers.
2. Strategies to recruit assistants to help develop this framework.
      a. Consider sponsoring a forum topic to discuss the need approach and generate helpers
      b. Build strategies for establishing a social network

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Open Task: Clerical at bible.org headquarters

Volunteer at bible.org office:  (location Richardson TX office) address on page http://bible.org/article/contact-us                                                        

Description of Tasks: 

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Volunteer Task: Translator Support System

Volunteer Task: Translator Support System

Purpose: To develop a system that will support the volunteer translators in their task to see which articles have been translated in each language and to identify articles that need to be translated next in that  language.

Implementation: we need the following

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Tech (not assigned) investigate google translator

 it has been suggested that offer google translate on our articles pages so people can read it in other languages

some others say we should use it in some automated way and make the site navigation translated into all the google supported languages

task someone to review and and recommend if this would be a good thing to do as a beta effort

see http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open&q=translate 

 

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open task-making screen casts to help user use bible.org and users.bible.org and forum.bible.org

We need a series of tutorials supported by screencasts to help people use 

one suggested screencast software is http://www.screentoaster.com 
 

 

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Daily Bible Reading and Memorization Packet - unassigned task

Volunteer Tasks:

  1. To Establish a set of spiritual principles based upon the daily reading and/or the memory chart

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