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Responses to: No Matter Where Submitted on July 17, 2008 by Steve McCurley And for a description of some of the volunteer management techniques being used in China for the Olympics games, see this from the July 17th Christian...

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Volume VIII, Issue 4, July 2008

No Matter Where: Volunteering for the Olympic Games

Points of View

By Susan J. Ellis and Steve McCurley

Every four years, the local organizing committee of either the summer or winter Olympics faces the challenge of recruiting and deploying thousands of volunteers in support of the massive event. And every four years, the committee seems to reinvent the system from scratch. Various news items have already surfaced about volunteering for the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, and the 2012 Summer Games in London. In this Points of View, Susan J. Ellis and Steve McCurley ponder what, if anything, is different about volunteer involvement and management for the Olympics as compared to any other volunteer activity. They also consider some of the philosophical/ethical issues emerging about the role of Olympic volunteering in different societies, and what this all might mean for the time between the Games.

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August 16th, 2010, 5:34pm

Responses to:
No Matter Where

Submitted on July 17, 2008 by Steve McCurley
And for a description of some of the volunteer management techniques being used in China for the Olympics games, see this from the July 17th Christian Science Monitor: www.csmonitor.com/2008/0717/p04s01-woap.html.

Submitted on August 4, 2008 by David Brettell, currently in Beijing [but he's from Australia, where he headed volunteer coordination for the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000]
Appreciated your article re: Beijing volunteers – very good points. I am in Beijing right now, under contract to the organising committee for four weeks – and I'm pleased to say the reason is that they want to learn from our experience with the Sydney Olympics. Attached is a press release about my stay here. Your readers might find it interesting.