A Must for Volunteer Organizers
Have you ever been in a position that needed to collect volunteers for an event? If you have, you probably either emailed a spreadsheet around, printed one out, and passed it to friends, or tried to use your email as a way to corral everyone’s responses.
YUCK!
I found a better way!, and it’s easy and free (two of my favorite words).
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A company called “MySignUp.com” created an online signup form system that works like a charm. Not too many bells and whistles to confuse things, but just a simple clickity click sign up form.
Take a look at www.mysignup.com.
I also recorded a 15 minute training video on exactly how to use it if your interested (just press the play button).
UPDATE – As noted in one of the comments below, I completely blew the section about the URL (it was off screen). All I was talking about is the shaded area in the image below – use that URL (the one you create). I made the mistake of looking at the browsers address bar and copying the url once I went to the signup page (which is a much more complicated URL). Just use the URL you create in the shaded area of the picture below, and you’ll be fine. Click the picture to make it larger.
jim



December 29th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
The site was built to support soccer coaches and girl scout leaders. It is a family owned site where the husband used to coach and the wife runs 40 girl scout troups …
Thanks for the video!
January 11th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Thanks for the demo; it was helpful!
January 16th, 2009 at 8:22 am
I LOVE this site. I am a college professor and use mysignup.com to schedule students during my office hours. Previous to using this site, I had a hard copy sign up sheet outside m office door. Many times, I couldn’t read the student’s handwriting; no longer a problem with mysignup.com. Not only did the old method force students to come to my office just to sign-up, it didn’t offer much privacy since another student signing up could see other student information. Also, with the old method, I couldn’t check new sign-ups from my home computer like I can now with mysignup.com. I also use the site to gather RSVP’s from students and others for various special events.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
And that is why you are my “Geek Whisperer”! I am going to pass this on to the church.
February 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Jim,
You are probably aware that none of you discussion about the URL was on screen. When I was watching the video I though my browser had stalled.
I still have no idea what you were talking about in that section of the video even though I have listened to it several times.
Otherwise thanks for a great video.