Make Great Helpers
or, Find Intelligent Novices
- someone in your organization or field
who isn’t involved with volunteers
- someone in volunteer management
who isn’t involved in your organization or field
- someone with no involvement in either
volunteer management or
your organization or field
- meet separately with each
- explain:
- why you're doing this research
- who the research is for
- what you'll prove or discover
- the ramifications of your research
- where your data will come from
- have them grill you
- take lots of notes
- decide where you need to rethink
- decide where you need to explain
- decide if you need to start from scratch
- how do people in other fields look at your topic?
- what terminology do they use?
- where would they look for data?
- can you make use of that terminology or data?
Research Strategies Overview
Why Bake a Pie? Who’ll Be Eating the Pie?
What Flavour of Pie?
Scratch Pie or Mix? What’s In Your Kitchen?
Non-Bakers Make Great Helpers
Pie In the Sky Just a Slice of Pie Serving the Pie
Indigestion
KAAAV Home
~ image of “scratch” pie is from Oreo favorites: simple snacks and special celebrations, 2nd ed; Meredith, 2001
~ image of pie in the sky is from Pie in the Sky Successful Baking at High Altitudes: 100 Cakes, Pies, Cookies,
Breads, and Pastries Home-tested for Baking at Sea Level, 3,000, 5,000, 7,000, and 10,000 feet
(and Anywhere in Between) by Susan G. Purdy; William Morrow Cookbooks, 2005
~ image of smoking chili pepper is from 1,801 home remedies: trustworthy treatments for everyday health problems;
Reader’s Digest Association, 2007
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