Increasing Participation, Consiousness, and Volunteers to Initiatives - Content Draft

We are going to have a presentation / brainstorming activity for our company next week..

And the topic that is assigned to us is...

"What are the other things we can do to increase participation, consiousness, and volunteers to these Community Service Initiatives?"

Here's what our team are able to come up with...

Before the Event Campaign

Promotion Campaign Methods

• Email Blast
• Infographics
• Posters
• Published Calendar of Events and Activities (Needs More Activities)
• Published List of Participants for specific events
• Contents ranges from FYI/facts, Upcoming Events, Statistics

Presentation

• Must be attractive, catchy but matches the purpose of the event.

Content

• Invites for events must contain complete details.
• What - event background
• Who - beneficiary organization's details, possible team assignments, volunteer skills needed if any.
• Where - location of event
• When - schedule
• Why - mission statement for the event
• How - contains how the event is planned or program, transportation, materials, food, operation.
• Prior to acceptance - this is important to manage volunteer expectation.

Who???

• People want to help but may not be able to join on the day of the event.
• Exceeding number of target participants.
• Provide "More Ways To Help"
• Fund raising, back office, logistics, coordination, multimedia, documentation.
• Choose the right people for the task.

After The Event Campaign

Post Mortem

• Provide information and maintain good volunteer experience.
• A summary of the held event.
• Important to indicate what is done, what worked, what did not work as expected, and how to handle in the future.
• Must be sent to all, not just to the participants.
• This way, Those who are not able to participate are still informed, and may decide to join in future activities.

Video Presentations, Pictures and Documentations

Tools

• Online Presence - set up official accounts using various free services online
• Offers flexibility of being assessed outside office network and mobile devices.
• Facebook - creating pages which can be used for event announcements, Campaigns
• Twitter - quick updates
• YouTube - upload video documentations of
• Instagram - quick Photo sharing
• Blogs - documentation of events
• Online Surveys - for feedback, information gathering, like Surveymonkey

Charge Codes / Benefits

• NOT for the volunteers. This is a volunteer event.
• Event Management/ Planning / Meeting / Organizational task which cannot be avoided but are done during office hours.

This is subject to change by the way. It may seem serious but actually it's an informal presentation. :)

"I Don't Always" Meme by memegenerator.net

Who Am I And Why I'm Here

Based on Wordpress Blogging101 Assignment

After months of my Blogger account being dormant, I logged in again and created 3 quick posts.. And since I never really wrote a lot, except for my set of college diary notebook, I think If I create post after post, along with reading other people's blogs, I will be able to improve my blogging.

It's like pure coincidence.. And It's meant to be.. That last week, I stumbled upon Wordpress Blogging 101 announcement. And I said to myself, "Wow, this is what I needed." No second thoughts, Email signed up.

And today we got our assignment. "Who Am I And Why I'm Here". When I think about it, It was during "Job Interviews" that I really got opportunity to introduce myself.

Introduction

My name Willie Jan. I'm a Software Developer/Consultant by profession.

Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?

Keeping a personal journal is also fun, but I'm NOT going to share a personal journal. Haha! There are things that we know of, or we encounter, that are worth sharing to others. It can bring information, inspiration, awareness to the reader. Blogging also offers flexibility on the content details we aim to share. Something that cannot be done with social networking sites.

What topics do you think you'll write about?

I think my main priority for articles is to write about any Environmental, Community Outreach and Volunteering programs I'm able to participate and document, including adventures during Mountain Climbing. Fitness is also important for all of us. I will be able to share my journey from being a couch potato to an Ultra Marathoner, and what lies beyond. The other topics I'd like to write will be about Animals, and my other hobbies, Anime, Video Games, Gadgets, Business, and maybe cooking? Those are the things I'll clearly write about but I won't close the door for random topics.

Who would you love to connect with via your blog?

I would love to connect with anyone. And yes, there may be specific target audiences for some of the topics I've listed above.

If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

I'll be very proud and congratulate myself of Forming the Habit of blogging. By that time, I should have also improved my blogging and writing. I think I'm also be able to appreciate and notice small things. And also, the feeling of looking at the entries for a past whole year is amazing, quite an accomplishment.

Looking forward to the future! :)

Messages From The Leaves of the Tree

This "tree" is found at the office which organizes our coastal cleaning activity for next week. It's a simple gesture, but I'm able to feel the persons' wishes, promises, and pledges which they wrote on the "leaves" of the "tree".

If only trees can communicate with us,..

What would they tell us?
What can we promise we can do for them?

Here's the summary of the messages on the leaves...

• Plant more native trees
• Minimizing Waste
• Segregate Wastes
• Saving Energy
• 3R.. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
• Love Mother Earth
• Love and Appreciate Nature
• Help Nature Recover
• Save Our Forest
• Heal The World
• Always be part of the change

And that's it. 

I know we can do our part in small ways too.

Let's be part of the change.

There may be more things that can be added.

Let us know! :)

- Prepaid All The Way with LoadXtreme -

Just a sharing on my business venture. :)

It was 2009, I'm taking a stroll at SM Megamall. Dropping by SM Mega Trade Hall, there was a fair for small business. I browsed thru the exhibitors. There are a lot of them. Ranging from Small Capital investment to, ehem, very large I wish I could afford them.

Then here comes a booth. VMobile LoadXtreme? 

What's that? Curious I went to it and looked at the marketing materials...

The gist is that, :

• With LoadXtreme, it can be used to load all networks and other prepaid products.
• becoming a Dealer or Retailer, will gain an account to the LoadXtreme system.
• LX Loads are used to perform loading transactions and can be replenished by transferring/deposit from other bank account or thru counter.
• Transactions can be done thru SMS, thus are not fixed to any single network or thru it's internet loading facility.
• The major benefit is that I'll be able to avail of 8 - 12% discount on all products loaded. :)

I'm a prepaid user. 

I would love to have some kind of part-time. Some kind of income, even if not big, just regular, useful and I can benefit too.

Having a frustrated entrepreneurial desire, the sales person didn't really have to "salestalk" me into signing up. It's a good thing I have enough money back then to sign up for the Dealer account back then.

I got something like the package below.. Though this is the latest package offering.

VMobile LoadXtreme Present Package

 And here's the website for transactions, account monitoring, and other stuff.

LoadXtreme Website

Fast forward to present...

I have regular customers as of the moment. I'm using it for my own consumption, especially now that mobile internet is all the rage. In the past 5 years, I don't know how much I've saved. Must have been a lot. This is the main reason why I don't opt to whatever postpaid plans available. I control my spending, and get to pay less for load because of the discount. Thus the title,

Prepaid All The Way!

Product Features

Load All Networks

Applicable only for products based on Philippine Telecom Companies

but can be received even if user is on another country.

Globe

Sun

TM

Smart

LoadWallet Transfer for all networks

LX Load Transfer

Online Game Top Up Cards

Landline Top Up Cards

Cable TV Top Up Cards

ABS CBN Top Up Cards

Insurance

SM e-Plus Reload

Website transaction and record monitoring.

Android Mobile App

Package Pricing

Dealer Package : 4998

Retailer Package : 300

Account Membership

Contact me : willie.jan.altarejos@gmail.com

Sample Marketing Material

References

http://loadxtreme.ph

http://www.loadxtreme.ph/new/resources/