Help Yourself Master Zoom and Make WILPF’s Congress a Success!
Published on June, 47 2021
By Darien De Lu
President, WILPF US
June 2021
Are you ready to be the one adept at setting your microphone levels, instead of the one who can’t be heard? Would you like to smooth out your branch’s Zoom meetings? Do you want to impress your grandchildren with your Zoom tech skills? Do you have a grandchild or friend who would be interested in volunteering with us?
Our August Congress is shaping up to be a great virtual event, and now you have an opportunity: Get help in polishing your Zoom skills and help out WILPF! To make presentations go smoothly we need you – and your friends and family, even if not WILPF members! – to help fill about 75 volunteer hours of Zoom support. I’m asking you to contact me now.
We would very much appreciate help with our basic Zoom assistance.
We’ll offer special training sessions to prepare you. We ask all of our Zoom volunteers to attend a training or confirm you have already received a very similar training. I’m the one to contact to sign up and get more information: President@wilpfus.org.
We’re looking for volunteers for these tasks:
Session Assistants will help keep a presentation running smoothly: Mute folks as needed, assign numbers to those raising their hands, share screens, answer questions in chat, post the WILPF donation link and other links. (About 50 hours needed.)
Technical Assistants will help as needed with anything that cannot be handled by a Session Assistant or session moderator, possibly help with questions related to various devices, mute all, deal calmly with a Zoom bomber by ejecting them first into the waiting room. (About 25 hours needed.)
You – or your friend – can volunteer for one hour or for more. All help is appreciated and many hands make lighter work!
Ready to learn more right now? You can view two trainings on WILPF’s recordings page: Here is a beginning Zoom training and here is a comprehensive Zoom training for organizers.
There may also be other techy tasks that we especially need help with over the course of the Congress: Be part of the adventure! Please contact me immediately to offer to help out: President@wilpfus.org
