I’ve had a bit of a purge of some of the actions listed on the website, as I noticed that there was quite a few links that were pointing to out of date pages or sites that were no longer active. The flipside of this, is that I’ve had a bit of a splurge on adding new actions to the website. I usually add three or four per month but this time round I let the floodgates open and added a whole load of them. I’m not going to list them all as that’s the domain of my newsletter to do that, so I'll let you pop over to the August newsletter (once it's published) and see what ones have been added.
As for future features, I’ve added a new mapping facility from Frappr to give a bit more interaction on various pages, namely Leaflet Campaign, Home Volunteer Groups and Volunteer Bureau page.
As I write, a very kind person, namely Peter Bailey, has offered to set up a tracking facility for some ‘Do Good’ cards that will eventually roll out sometime in August. These are cards that will attempt to spread some random acts of kindness that have the ability of being able to track where that card has travelled to, once you pass it on to someone else. Exciting stuff!!!
Also, if time permits, then a new Volunteer Challenge feature will be introduced in August as well. This will be a downloadable sheet of actions, which once completed will be rewarded with a Certificate of Achievement. It’s just another way, among many on the website, to encourage people to perform actions that benefit others.
'Til next time.
