The NYAVA Membership Committee has taken a closer look at the NYAVA LinkedIn page followers over the past year to see who is following NYAVA (members and non-members), what they are responding to, and made a few discoveries about the platform for those in the volunteer engagement community.

Information was shared with Continuous Learning Committee, and they identified specific topics for a discussion regarding LinkedIn and have drawn upon the expertise of fellow colleagues to serve on a panel.

Panel discussion attendees will learn:

• How LinkedIn can impact your volunteer department business

• How LinkedIn can impact your professional career

• How to take advantage of continuous learning opportunities provided by LinkedIn

• How agencies/organizations tap into and use LinkedIn

Meet the panelists:

• Stephen Wolfe, who has worked with volunteers for 12+ years, will highlight the ways performance management principles can be effectively applied to create and optimize a LinkedIn profile, enhancing a professional online presence and career opportunities.

• Maura Muller has been Associate Director of Volunteer Programs at The New York Public Library (NYPL) since 2000. She holds a BS in marketing and PR from FIT and worked in the fashion industry before switching careers. She is a volunteer for the Bashakill Area Association, the Mamakating Environmental Education Center and the President of Sullivan County Audubon. Maura will share how LinkedIn how it can help you make lasting placements or prevent disastrous ones.

• Bronwen Eastaugh, Volunteer Manager for the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, has worked with volunteers for 11+ years. Bronwen will focus on the learning opportunities LinkedIn offers, highlight the courses that may be most relevant to our field, and remind us that our personal development is important.

• Shaina Sherman, MSW is the Executive Director of Jewish Family Service of Somerset, Hunterdon & Warren Counties NJ and she has worked with volunteers for 10+ years. Shaina will share the perspective of someone who has engaged with LinkedIn to reach volunteering and professional goals as well as to recruit and engage staff and volunteers.