IVW Surpasses 300 members!

A few days ago, IVW LinkedIn Group Members surpassed the 300 mark! It's amazing how fast the group has grown in such a short period!

*Official* 1st IVW Project Posted

I am glad to announce the very first official IVW Project post. I have posted this project in the LinkedIn group, since the IVW website is being worked on. Just a heads up, until the IVW site is live, all IVW Projects will be posted in the IVW LinkedIn group.

This particular non-profit is in a unique situation. Their mission is to reach out to children who are being sexually abused, and inform them to the importance of them telling an adult they trust about the abuse they have suffered. Hopefully we can provide quality IT service to this organization and help, in anyway we can, to keep the creeps from doing harm!

If you are interested in reading more details about this Project, please visit the IVW LinkedIn group

LinkedIn

I started out by creating a group called IT Volunteers Worldwide (IVW) on LinkedIn. I chose LinkedIn because I already have a profile, and with over 4000 connections, I thought...."why not?!". To my surprise, the group grew at a rate of 30 new users a week. With the total members reaching 275 in just a little under 3 months things started to get a little hectec. I had non-profits posting projects, I had volunteers posting irrelavant posts, etc. Things started to get a little out of hand and most importantly off track from the IVW Mission. So in order to bring it all together, I posted a rule that all non-profits should follow IF they would like an IVW volunteer to assist them. Since the posting, I had numerous non-profits contact me to get their projects posted to the rest of the IVW group, which I am currently working on. This is a temporary solution. So thus, I registered...