Keep your helpers informed
This campaign tip (no. 117) was published on Saturday, 27th April 2019
Written with ... a degree ... of frustration. People will do marvellous things for you if they believe in your campaign - volunteer to do all sorts of things. Excellent, and according to ACoRP each pound spent on volunteers brings £4.20 of benefit. But for goodness sake ...
• ask the to do useful things
• tell them why they're doing things
• provide them with the information / tools they need
• let them know if things move on, plans change and what they're doing will no longer be of use
Lisa has been asked to put together a medieval charter declaration for Melksham's 800th celebration - to look like the original and be unveiled by minor royalty this autumn, left as a reminder in the town hall for many years.
Information to Lisa came in the form of screen grabs from internal pages of books on obscure and unspecified websites, with "look in the index" to find them. Finding the fonts and the background was an un-necessarily long process. Three samples done and put together when ... "oh we've decided to do it in English and in a modern font and with modern words ...."
Discussion via Coffee Shop forum
• ask the to do useful things
• tell them why they're doing things
• provide them with the information / tools they need
• let them know if things move on, plans change and what they're doing will no longer be of use
Lisa has been asked to put together a medieval charter declaration for Melksham's 800th celebration - to look like the original and be unveiled by minor royalty this autumn, left as a reminder in the town hall for many years.
Information to Lisa came in the form of screen grabs from internal pages of books on obscure and unspecified websites, with "look in the index" to find them. Finding the fonts and the background was an un-necessarily long process. Three samples done and put together when ... "oh we've decided to do it in English and in a modern font and with modern words ...."
Discussion via Coffee Shop forum
