Opportunities for Volunteers
At the Salford Social Media Centre we have a whole range of volunteering opportunities that offer something for everyone! You don't need any prior skills to volunteer with us and there is no minimum time commitment.
We help you to develop your own unique plan of activity, progressing through different roles if you wish, to make your volunteering experience a fun, relaxed and enjoyable one!
Community Reporters:
Have you ever wanted to tell your side of the story?
Our Community Reporters programme is a loosely structured programme that is flexible to the needs and interests of each individual. A Community Reporter is someone who is given the skills and facilities to produce regular online content - this can be thoughts and reflections on their life, reporting on events that are happening in their area or issues that affect a group they're involved with, and can be produced as a blog, video or audio. We are linked with the BBC on this project and our reporters get to go on a behind the scenes visit to North West Tonight as part of their training. Community Reporters also have the opportunity to link with other reporters to collaborate on stories and offer peer-support.
You gain the following skills:
* Blogging; setting up a blog / website, uploading images, linking to external websites
* Digital photography; taking stills with a digital camera.
* Images; Manipulating and uploading images
* Camcorder skills; getting good pictures and sound with a camcorder
* Editing video; using a video editing programme to create a finished video piece from original and found footage
* Distributing video; creating DVD's and putting video online
* Audio recording skills; getting good sound with a recorder and microphone
* Editing audio; using a video editing programme to create a finished video piece from original and found footage
* Distributing video; creating DVD's and putting video online
Skill Sharing Facilitators and Leaders:
Have you ever wanted to help people learn new skills?
Volunteer as a skill sharing facilitator or leader to gain valuable experience as a media trainer. Skill sharing is a type of training that's a more collaborative way of learning and in these sessions you could find yourself helping to prepare resources, meeting and greeting people, helping the group stay focussed and on track and even leading on some of the tasks in the sessions.
You gain the following skills:
* Facilitation of skill sharing sessions
* Introducing sessions
* Meet and greet skills
* Get to know you exercises
* Introducing new information
* Presentation skills
* Lesson planning and timing
* Checking knowledge
* Creating a peer learning environment and activities
East Salford Direct Content Developers:
Have you ever wanted to run your own media channel?
Internet channels like East Salford Direct are an incredibly powerful resource for all sorts of groups and organisations and there are a number of interesting roles available to volunteers wishing to help us deliver this kind of work in the community. You might like to be a channel producer, identifying and supporting people to deliver content for your channel. Or maybe you'd like to be a researcher or editor. Whatever the role, we can guarantee that this niche area will offer a rewarding volunteering experience.
You gain the following skills:
* Skills in contacting people and asking to collaborate
* Tactics in collaborating with people / groups on media projects
* Promote the channel using chicklets
* Create an Internet channel using WordPress
* Create an Internet Channel using Drupal
* Import an Internet Channel intoThis is a hovertip Drupal
* Moderate content in Drupal / WordPress
* Be able to demonstrate Miro as a way of promoting Internet channels
