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If you have any questions or comments about Volunteer Coordination, just leave a comment below! We may schedule another session in a few weeks so check the Facebook Fanpage or website for updates!

What is the session about?
Ever wonder why 50 people sign up to your activity and then only 2 or 3 show up? Or why volunteers only come once and then you never see them again? Do you know what it takes to be a successful volunteer coordinator?

Want to host a workshop on Volunteer Coordination?
We can give you speaking notes for this presentation and you can gather a few friends and host a session! Just email apyncampaigns@gmail.com or click here to apply!

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Apply to the APYN Workshop Team!

What is this session about?
How do you set up the space? What are learning outcomes? What’s the basic structure of a training? How do you deal with difficult people in the group?

Think you got what it takes to host a workshop? Sign up to host one! You will be given presentation notes and packages on Campaigning and Mobilizing, Volunteer Coordination, and Media Skills. Just scroll down to apply!

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What is this session about? Have you ever lobbied someone? Were you successful? Who did you lobby? How did you lobby them? If anything went wrong, what was it? Some people say lobbying is just for adults with jobs, is that true? How do I persuade or influence a change in policy? Why haven’t you tried lobbying before?

Think you got what it takes to host a workshop? Apply to APYN Workshop Team! You will be trained and given presentation notes and packages on Campaigning and Mobilizing, Volunteer Coordination, and Media Skills. You can host a workshop on lobbying too! Just email us at apyncampaigns@gmail.com or click here to apply!

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Want to join APYN? Click here to get involved!

Want to host a workshop on Proposals & Resource Mobilization? If you want to host a workshop on Proposals & Resource Mobilization, you must email us at apyncampaigns@gmail.com or sign up here to receive a full presentation package.

What questions does this session answer?
Need a lot of resources but don’t know where to get them? Have a proposal to write but have no idea how? Got a lot to do but don’t really know where to start? Have a lot of help but don’t know how to distribute work?

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Want to host a workshop on Strategic Campaigning? If you want to host a workshop on Strategic Campaigning, you must email us at apyncampaigns@gmail.com or sign up here to receive a full presentation package.

What questions does this session try to answer about Strategic Campaigning?
Do you wonder how what you do contribute to human rights change? What is your the process for developing a campaign? What does strategic campaigning mean? What makes a campaign strategic (what is a campaign?)? Ever consider how you choose to demonstrate on the streets or write a letter or sign a petition or have a tea party for different issues?

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Want to host a workshop on Make Taking Action Safe? If you want to host a workshop on Make Taking Action Safe, you must email us at apyncampaigns@gmail.com or sign up here to receive a full presentation package.

Why Make Taking Action Safe?
We all want to do something to create human rights change, but it is very important that we do it SAFELY. We have to be aware of risks, responsibilities, and security, both online and offline.

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Skype School will take place from March until December and each session will only be held once. If you miss the sign up period, contact us and we can send you the materials!

Anyone with internet connection and a Skype username can join!

Here are the upcoming sessions from October 2011 to December 2011:

Volunteer Coordination
When? Tuesday, 13 December, 6:00pm Hong Kong time to 7:30pm Hong Kong time
Ever wonder why 50 people sign up to your activity and then only 2 or 3 show up? Or why volunteers only come once and then you never see them again? Do you know what it takes to be a successful volunteer coordinator?

Media Skills
When? December 2011 on FACEBOOK!
Why don’t my fans ‘Like’ my posts? Why don’t my followers RT my tweets? Why don’t viewers comment on my videos? What should I post on my  social networking site? Facebook, Twitter, YouTube – aren’t they all the same? Do I need ANOTHER social networking site? Do decision makers really care about Likes and RTs?

Active Participation and Participatory Approaches
When? To be confirmed
Why bother engaging the excluded and disempowered if I can just do everything for them? Who are the stakeholders? How do I monitor them? How do I assess active participation?

Impact Indicators
When? To be confirmed
Want to know if you are creating human rights impact? Use impact indicators! They are not as complicated and abstract as they sound.

Here are the sessions that were held in the past but we can still send you the materials:

Making Taking Action Safe
When? Thursday, April 21
Session 1 – 6:30pm HKT to 8:00pm HKT
Session 2 – 8:30pm HKT to 10:00pm HKT

We all want to do something to create human rights change, but it is very important that we do it SAFELY. We have to be aware of risks, responsibilities, and security, both online and offline.

Strategic Campaigning
When? Thursday, April 28
Session 1 – 6:30pm HKT to 8:00pm HKT
Session 2 – 8:30pm HKT to 10:00pm HKT

If I have a campaign strategy, does that mean it’s strategic campaigning? What makes my strategy strategic?

Lobbying
When? Thursday, July 21 6:15pm HKT to 7:45pm HKT
Have you ever lobbied someone? Were you successful? Who did you lobby? How did you lobby them? If anything went wrong, what was it? Some people say lobbying is just for adults with jobs, is that true? How do I persuade or influence a change in policy? Why haven’t you tried lobbying before?

Proposals and Resource Mobilization
When? Thursday, May 5
Session 1 – 6:30pm HKT to 8:00pm HKT
Session 2 – 8:30pm HKT to 10:00pm HKT

Need a lot of resources but don’t know where to get them? Have a proposal to write but have no idea how? Got a lot to do but don’t really know where to start? Have a lot of help but don’t know how to distribute work?

Not on Skype? Check out our offline workshops – tell us which country you are in and we will let you know if a workshop is being hosted near you!
Feel like hosting your own workshop instead? We can send you the workshop content!

We are looking for YOU(th) with experience in training and skills sharing experience to facilitate small ‘workshops’ in your local communities!

The purpose of these workshops is to facilitate young people to share their experience – so it doesn’t have to be in a classroom. It could be just you with a few friends at a coffee shop.

All you have to do is sign up and we will contact you with all the ‘workshop’ materials you need!

Here are the available ‘workshops’:

Campaigning and Mobilizing
Details: Online vs. offline campaigning, identifying targets, different ways of campaigning, timing, the importance of campaigning, the link between campaigning and mobilizing, mobilizing platforms, good time for mobilizing, the purpose of mobilizing, mobilizing basics

Volunteer Coordination
Details: The importance of volunteers and volunteer coordination to effective campaigning, four steps to coordinating volunteers, volunteer motivations and ‘job matching’, large groups vs. small groups, responsibilities of volunteer coordinator, challenges when working with volunteers, what it takes to be a successful volunteer coordinator

Media Skills
Details: Details: Media as a tool for campaigning, brief introduction of mainstream media, social media, and social networking sites, and a comparison of their influence on decision makers and the public, and their target audience, using different types of media tools, being media-friendly, keeping your audience interested, impact assessment and analysis, guidelines on representing APYN

Check out the excellent presentation here

Have you questions about security? Email our friendly APYN security guru Crane your questions! crane@riseup.net

That’s a wrap for our first ever APYN Skype School ! Thank you to all who joined and participated – and remember, if you’ve got a great idea for a skill, theme or issue that you’d like to learn about… post your idea below and we’ll see if we can schedule single sessions or more!

Looking forward to seeing you at the next APYN Skype School !

Don’t forget you can still join the discussion here

Another lively discussion session explored concepts and introductory ideas around this human rights issue.

Preparation for the session was fun too – with participants watching:

• Speaking truth to power: (7mins)
• My sister, my self: (13 minutes)

The introductions were through a voice call, and discussion followed through chat – you can read the transcript of this part of the session here!

Be part of the discussion here:

Next week is our last scheduled Skype School discussion on considering online security and risk. We are looking for more session topics for upcoming Skype School session and would love to hear what you’d be interested in discussing! Add a comment below or email apyncampaigns@gmail.com