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Apr 26, 03:56 am: Community when you need it
From Lots of Helping Hands homepage:
It’s a resource to organize a support group and looks to be pretty good. As I understand it, the key difference between this and something Yahoo! Groups is the templates.
Lotsa Helping Hands is a simple, immediate way for friends, family, colleagues, and neighbors to assist loved ones in need. It’s an easy-to-use, private group calendar, specifically designed for organizing helpers, where everyone can pitch in with meals delivery, rides, and other tasks necessary for life to run smoothly during a crisis. Here’s how you can get started right now:
- Choose a “coordinator” Decide who’s going to list needs on the group calendar: you, a spouse, family member, or close friend. (More than one person can be a coordinator.)
- Sign up The coordinator signs up for a free membership, which creates the group calendar web site immediately.
- Add members The coordinator adds the name and email address of each person who is interested in helping.
- List what’s needed Using our pre-designed template screens, the coordinator easily adds specific needs for meals, rides, etc. to the group calendar.
I do think it would be nice if the resource exposed the members of the community. It’s tough, I think, to feel isolated from the people providing support and the others offering support. Interesting to see how the social web can be applied to such an personal and social issue.
tagged: cancer, tools, lotsahelpinghands, support, network, community
Anita Rowland
So far a yahoogroup has worked for organizing the folks that have been helping me with logistics during chemo (mostly getting folks to look after my grandson when needed). good to know about lotsahelpinghands, though.
marnie webb
We thought about Yahoo! Groups, Anita. Our care coordinator liked lotsahelpinghands because it had some templates in it for many of the common needs and made it easy to assign tasks.