PLEASE SHARE THIS POST Heres a great opportunity to see the Phila Flower Show by volunteering to help in the judging and scoring sections. There are so many positions and times to choose from,, very easy work, banking hours, you can sit or choose a position that is more active, you can see the show before it opens to the public with your free entry ticket, and get to see all the behind the scenes action too. Below is a letter from Elsa Efran with a description, you can contact her or me if you have questions. Its so much fun. Available days start in mid February, and continue during the show , which is Feb 28 to March 6. Email me for an exact calendar of available days. Yes, this is almost too good to be true! Susan sah215@yahoo From: Elsa Efran, Co-Chair, Points/Computer Support Diane Humphries, Senior Manager, PHS Information Services 215-988-8822 215-988-8863 [email protected] [email protected] To: Points and Typing Booth Volunteers We invite you to work with us (again or for the first time) for the 2015 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show, “Celebrate the Movies.” There are five areas and time frames in which we need assistance: • Entering data in the Flower Show Data Base (FSDB)—we’ll train you or refresh your skills. We will be set up to start work here at PHS on Tuesday, January 20. • Assisting the Horticulture Committee with its exhibitor mailing (mid-February) at PHS. • Helping at the Pennsylvania Convention Center the week before the Show (February 23-27) and during the Show (February 28 through March 6—the notorious “second Friday”) up in our Show headquarters in Room 306 of the Convention Center. During the week before the Show, we print entry cards and judging sheets (this mainly involves feeding cards and paper into the printers and then organizing the resulting paperwork). We process upwards of 10,000 pre-entries for the Show, about half of which actually came to the Show. During the Show, we enter the results from the Horticulture and Artistic judging into FSDB (some computer skills needed) and proofread and file all the paperwork (no computer experience necessary, only eagle eyes). • Working in the Typing Booth on Thursday, February 26, Friday, February 27, on Monday, March 2, and Friday, March 6. We need typists (FSDB-savvy and/or Word savvy), and nomenclature checkers. • Working as Post-Entry Aides to accept post-entries. We’ve taken over responsibility for these volunteers, who were formerly part of Hort Aides. We hope the “old” ones will help out again, and we hope they can train new volunteers. The attached calendar shows dates and times when we anticipate needing help. For all of these jobs, we request that you work a shift of at least three hours. Of course, we’d like to have you for as much extra time as you’d like to work. It’s a good idea to check in by phone or e-mail the day before you are scheduled to work to make sure there is still work to do (or, shhhhh, if snow has become an issue). Sometimes you are so efficient that the work is finished early and there is nothing left for the next shifts to do. We’d appreciate your getting in touch (by mail, email, or phone) to let us know if you are available this year and what times and jobs work best for you. If you have friends who might be interested in helping out, please let us know that, too—we’re always looking for computer folks but also could use more “non-techies” like those of you who so ably organize our paperwork and proofread our printouts. Working on Points can be addictive—many of our current volunteers have been with us for a number of years. All of us are happy to welcome and train newcomers. Please note: If you are going to be working with the computers in the Typing Booth or FSDB (as opposed to proofreading or filing) and want to play around with the new system in advance, we can send you a link to a “sandbox” version of the Administrative portal along with some practice exercises to let you become familiar with FSDB. We would probably do this closer to Show time. If you come to PHS to do data entry, we will train you here. It shouldn’t take long—it’s very similar to shopping online. We look forward to seeing you soon! P.S. If you want to be removed from the list of Points/Typing Booth volunteers (for instance, if we’ve gotten your name in error or you are no longer interested or available), please let Elsa know. If you can’t work this year but still want to be on the list, let us know about that, too. Thanks.
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