Volunteering to Improve Your Career

6:30 Arrival and networking

6:55 Introduction

7:00 Presentation

8:00 Post-Meetup social time

Volunteering to Improve Your Career

As professionals, we’re taught that we need to value our services at a price. But, what if the best way to grow professionally, is to give our services away? How can we turn the experience of working for free, into a positive one that benefits all parties involved?

Come explore what it means to volunteer as a technical writer and answer the difficult questions. How can technical writers volunteer and outreach to their community? Who even needs technical writing volunteers? Why bother?

We’ll cover:

· The motives behind volunteering.

· The roadblocks that stop us, and how to overcome them.

· How to find the right volunteer opportunity for you.

· How to get the best experience out of volunteering.

About the Speaker

Greta Boller (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gretaboller) is The Lone Technical Writer (http://lonetechnicalwriter.wordpress.com), a blogger dedicated to documenting the theories and practices of technical writing. Professionally, she has supported the Department of State, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Labor in all aspects of technical writing including designing and implementing new technical writing programs. Her passions include accessibility, outreach, and puzzle solving.