IT

I like to announce a very serious survey of volunteer managers' online habits. Ok may be it's not so serious. I've recently caved in to the Facebook invites and signed up. Hey, may be this is starting to sound more like a confession.

OK, I admit it. I started a group on Facebook for the Association of Volunteer Managers. You can see it here.

I recently discovered that 90% of my volunteers were using it and decided to try it as a way of better networking us all. It's been a brilliant success.

So let's see how many of you are secret Facebook users...

Technical enthusiasts, aka 'geeks' as they are affectionately known, have for many many years led the way in volunteering. As with many other examples of volunteering- these voluntary workers are very often unseen and unheard by most of us.

As they say on their website: "Introducing Volunteer IT Professionals to Charities Needing IT Help"