The Touchwood Project

This past week I’ve been researching websites for another pilot project we’ve got in the works: a Touchwood Friends library. I thought I’d share some of the useful websites for keeping track of your books that I’ve come across as well as give an update on this latest project since we’ve already had quite a bit of interest in it. With a Touchwood Friends library we want to go a step beyond booksharing and look at… Read the rest of this article >>

I’ve been having several people ask me what Touchwood is up to these days, so thought I’d write a quick post on my latest research project: how to get volunteers involved with Touchwood and make sure they have a great time. Since I only have a little experience with managing volunteers from back in the days when I ran a door-to-door environmental campaign, I’ve been looking for advice from Getting It Done:… Read the rest of this article >>

I’m still on a high from yesterday, when the 4th of July saw our Board declare independence from boring, endless, I’m-losing-the-will-to-live meetings and I thought I’d share some of the tips we learned on how to transform meetings from the ones where you feel utterly drained and bored to ones that leave you full of energy and excitement (really). Our challenge was to sit down and at long last come up with a… Read the rest of this article >>