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Volunteer Knowledge Hub

Create helpful articles directly in your dedicated Knowledge Hub to guide and inform your volunteers.

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Written by Josie Robinson
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The knowledge hub articles aren't ready yet on the volunteer app side, however you can start prepping and creating your articles now.

Overview

With Volunteero's dedicated Knowledge Hub feature, your staff team can create helpful articles and resources within your dashboard that are instantly accessible through the Volunteero app.

These resources are instantly accessible through the Volunteero App, allowing volunteers to find answers to common questions anytime. Staff users can also copy direct links to articles from your Knowledge hub and publish them into mission descriptions or chat messages.

If your organisation uses Volunteero's AI support feature, then your knowledge hub articles can provide as context for your AI support chat.

Staff user permissions

First of all, you'll need to check that the staff users on your Volunteero dashboard have the right permissions to view, edit or manage this feature. You can visit the system settings section of the dashboard and into the 'roles' tab to review any of the custom-made staff user roles on your account.

For more information on creating and editing staff user roles, please read our dedicated guide here.

Prepare your resources

Once your staff users have the correct permissions, then you're ready to get started on preparing the resources for your dedicated volunteer knowledge hub!

The possibilities of resources within the knowledge hub are really is limitless, see this as a method of sharing articles, guides, images or documents with your volunteers directly within the Volunteero app!

Let's get started with creating some articles in the knowledge hub!

Firstly, click into the 'knowledge hub' tab on your account to get started.

Click + Article on the right-hand side to create your first volunteer knowledge hub article.

Title

Give your article a clear title that will be recognisable to your volunteers

Category

The article categories are customisable to your organisation, so it is worth thinking about how you want to categorise your articles within the knowledge hub.

Some examples may include:

  • Policies

  • Role descriptions

Content

Input your article content in this section. Here you can make use of Volunteero's rich text and media fields to:

  • Add headers

  • Insert image URLs

  • Hyperlink text

  • Bullet or numbered points

The above example for a volunteer agreement can be useful to share within your knowledge hub to serve as a reminder of the agreement between your organisation and volunteeers. However, if you require volunteers to sign and/or acknowledge a document within Volunteero , then making use of our forms feature can allow you to do this. Read more in our guide.

Preview

Preview how your article will be viewed by volunteers on the app.

Apply changes

Finally, don't forget to apply the changes! You don't want to lose all of your hard work.

Once saved, the article will have a generated direct link which you can copy and share directly with your volunteers via a mission description or chat message.

For more info on creating a mission, read our step-by-step guide here. And if you're keen on sharing via a chat, then you can check our guides for the chat feature here.

Article suggestions

Your organisation may want to make the most of volunteero's volunteer knowledge hub to customise articles and resources for your volunteers that may include:

  • Organisational policies and procedures

  • Volunteer role descriptions

  • Handbooks and guides

  • Links to videos and other interactive resources

  • Code of conduct documents

  • Organisational values and information

  • Mission -specific documentation - e.g. event info

Make edits

It's likely that over time, your articles will benefit from a spring clean and need some updating. Any changes can be made in the relevant article by clicking into it on the management side and opening up the content editor. Any changes a staff user makes to an article will be instantly available to volunteers via the app (as long as the 'Apply Changes' button has been selected!)

How to share and use your articles

Your knowledge hub articles will be visible to volunteers directly in the Volunteero app, this will be in the support section on their profile tab. This will be available after we do our next app update, however you can start prepping and creating your articles now.

You may also wish to share specific articles more directly with certain individuals or groups of volunteers. To do this, copy the article's direct link at the top of the article content and paste this link wherever you need to share it.

This may include:

  • Directly in a mission description

  • Into a shift description

  • Via an individual, group or all volunteers chat.

Pro tip: if you are using chat to send direct article links, don't forget you can pin important messages on group chats to ensure no one misses your message! Follow the steps in this guide to pin messages in chat.

Then additionally we are releasing an AI Support Chat Feature. With this feature an AI agent can reply to your volunteers, answering frequently asked questions through an AI chat in the chat feature. You will need to train the AI bot and feed him the right information. If you are planning to use this feature you AI agent will be able to learn from your knowledge hub articles as well, so please bare that in mind when creating your articles.

Video Tutorial

As always, if you require any further assistance with this, please use the support button in your Staff Dashboard or email us at support@volunteero.org. Our team will be happy to help!😊

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