Volunteers are the backbone of our society. We literally could not exist without the tireless help of our members. And if you look closely at the faces of the volunteers featured in the slideshow below you will notice that most of them have one thing in common: They are smiling because they are have a good time!
Getting involved in managing our society is a fun way to meet people, expand your skills and give back to the genealogical community. We have a variety of event-specific and projected related opportunities that are posted on our Volunteer SignUp page, so be sure to take a look there for other opportunities. Or consider taking on a little more responsibility by volunteering for our of our leadership positions.
Other areas of opportunity include the following:
- Hospitality – We need volunteers to help out with hospitality at our monthly meetings.
- Publicity/Public Relations – We would like to expand our outreach and move our publicity to the next level. If you have a background in Marketing we would greatly appreciate some of your time and talent!
- We want to expand and improve our eNews Newsletter and our utilization of our Blog, FaceBook and Twitter. We are hoping to create a small team of people who will work with our Director of Publicity, various board members and each other to manage the flow of information to our members and other interested parties. In particular, we are looking for volunteers to work on the following areas:
- Facebook coordination – Assume responsibility for posting content to the DGSFacebook page
- Twitter coordination – Assume responsibility for posting content to the DGS Twitter feed.
- We seek individuals with the following skills and interests to help create Pegasus, our award winning journal:
- Editors – work with authors to identify and make needed changes to articles
- Proof Readers – review articles prior to publication
- Audio/Visual – Help setup and take down audio and video devices and connections used at our general meetings and at our seminars. Assess the potintial for and and assist in creating audio and/or video recordsing of presentations.
If none of these opportunities sound right for you contact us and we will do our best to get you involved with an existing committee that matches your skills, interest and available time
Get involved today!
