Online volunteers: need your photos!
14:11, 10 March 2009
.. Posted in Volunteerism and Volunteer Management.. Link
Do you help a nonprofit organization, non-governmental organization (NGO), grassroots organization, school, or other civil society organization (CSO) via a computer at your home, your work, or a computer cafe -- as a volunteer (unpaid, NOT as a paid staff member or paid consultant)?
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."
Your photos or video should be taken either via your webcam or with the computer or other Internet device you use somehow visible in the photo, to give it that "Internet" feel. ALSO, 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!
