From your comments, it sounds like it would be useful to have a team of people (maybe 5 or 6) who have precommitted 10-100 hours in November to Giving Tuesday prep if their effort is needed. Do you think that would have helped this year? Do you think that’s practical for next year?
I think improving recruitment could help. I did recruit people in late September 2018 after Facebook dropped a hint that they would do a repeat, but in retrospect it may have helped to focus on recruiting individuals who would be able to commit to 80 hours (or whatever) if necessary.
This might not be so easy though, since I suspect most people with the skills to do this well are already working on other things and would have difficulty sparing that many hours. Perhaps compensation (e.g. through a grant) could help, but I’m not sure.
I also don’t think having large numbers of people each working 10 hours would help, because managing, training, and delegating tasks to that many people would be impractical.
From your comments, it sounds like it would be useful to have a team of people (maybe 5 or 6) who have precommitted 10-100 hours in November to Giving Tuesday prep if their effort is needed. Do you think that would have helped this year? Do you think that’s practical for next year?
I think improving recruitment could help. I did recruit people in late September 2018 after Facebook dropped a hint that they would do a repeat, but in retrospect it may have helped to focus on recruiting individuals who would be able to commit to 80 hours (or whatever) if necessary.
This might not be so easy though, since I suspect most people with the skills to do this well are already working on other things and would have difficulty sparing that many hours. Perhaps compensation (e.g. through a grant) could help, but I’m not sure.
I also don’t think having large numbers of people each working 10 hours would help, because managing, training, and delegating tasks to that many people would be impractical.