Attention volunteers: add your photos!
10:35, 22 June 2009
Post your comments using your Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID account.
Do you volunteer (contribute work/ a service pro bono/unpaid) to a nonprofit organization, non-governmental organization (NGO), grassroots organization, school, or other civil society organization (CSO)? And at some point in your volunteer service, have you used a a computer at your home, your work, or a computer cafe to complete some of your tasks? If so, then you have been an online volunteer.Do you research information, design web sites, databases or graphics, prepare proposals, edit documents, translate text, offer professional advice, moderate an online discussion group, manage a web site, manage a Flickr account, edit a podcast or online video, or any other activities to help an organization that supports a cause you believe in, working as a volunteer (unpaid!) from a remote site? If so, you are an online volunteer. You are engaged in virtual volunteering.
So, please post a photo or video of yourself at this Flickr Group, "Online Volunteers."
Please describe what you do as an online volunteer, including either the name or a description of the organization(s) you support. ALSO, please tag your photo "online volunteer."
Finally, please please forward this message to online volunteers you work with, or anyone you think might be interested.
Goal: to show the diversity of online volunteers out there. The practice of online volunteering is more than 30 years old. I want to show just what a HUGE group of people volunteer online, and have been doing so for a long while now!
Also, a reminder: if you ever have been a volunteer (onsite or online), OR if you have worked with volunteers in *any* capacity -- side-by-side as a fellow volunteer or as a manager/primary staff contact -- I invite you to complete this survey regarding the use of online tools to support volunteers, to help me in my efforts to revise the Virtual Volunteering Guidebook. You do not have to consider yourself an online volunteer to complete this survey! Huge thanks to everyone who has done so already.
