I've completed my 1st week of work, all done by telecommuting. The work has been tedious -- I've been updating the county service listings and directories in the 4people database, www.4People.org . In the process I learned a little bit of HTML and more about MS Word. Boy, are my eyes swimming!
A couple of weeks ago I participated in a couple of workshops that I found helpful for my organization: Outcomes Evaluation Hosting an Open House …read more
We lost the 2 workers, so I've been going through the service listings one by one, checking them to make sure the links work, adding links if none exist. I've been enjoying the internet searches connected with this task and have been learning about all the resources available.
I'm still working on updating the service listings in our database. I now have help from 2 workers from the Goodwill, Leslie and Ipo. They are checking the web links to make sure they work and are current and passing the updates to be made onto me. They are also looking for new resources to add to the database since they're both used to searching for social services online. …read more
I have a long project right now of verifying that the resources listed on each of the 37 sets of county listings have the correct phone number and website, if any. This is one project I'm enjoying because I like doing Google searches and reading about the organizations I research. …read more
Hi Marylin, did you get a tele-orientation? :-) Will you be telecommuting the entire time or is this just temporary?
Updating organizations sounds pretty tedious; too bad to teach you have to do. I hope you're learning a lot though about the process and probably the problems as well. Do you have any ideas yet on how you're going to create a training manual for it?
Keep up the great work!