Examples of Virtual Volunteering Activities

Tasks include:

• translating documents (and proofreading the translations by others)

• researching subjects

• designing web pages (designing the pages)

• editing or writing proposals, press releases, newsletter articles, video scripts, web pages, etc.

• designing any publication

• developing material for a curriculum

• transcribing scanned documents

• designing a database

• designing graphics

• providing legal, business, medical, agricultural, financial or any other expertise (answering questions, creating a strategy, commenting on a strategy, reviewing or evaluating data, etc.

• serving on a committee or advisory board

• counseling people

• tutoring or mentoring students regarding homework, writing assignments, online safety, professional development

• moderating or facilitating online discussion groups or live online events

• writing songs

• finding or creating recipes to share (for instance, sharing healthy recipes that utilize specific ingredients for a food pantry that serves low-income individuals affected by HIV and AIDS; the recipes are distributed at the pantry with those items. Online volunteers' efforts provide ideas for healthy and diverse ways to use the groceries clients receive)

• populating a database with information, such as recipes for people with diabetes, or recycling ideas, or information about access points into a mass transit system accessible for people with mobility issues, and on and on

• interviewing new candidates for a program, class, volunteering, employment...

• creating a podcast (writing the script, editing the audio, adding in intro and exit music, reading text, etc.)

• editing a video (or creating one video out of many video clips)

• captioning a video

• transcribing a podcast

• monitoring the news to look for specific subjects

• answering questions

• tagging photos and files with keywords (so that they can be more easily found by internal staff, search engines, the press, etc.)

• managing other online volunteers Note that online assignments come in a variety of forms: some require a particular expertise, some don't; some require screening and a long-term commitment, while others could be done just once, in a few minutes or hours, by a volunteer who may or may not ever help again (micro volunteering).

The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook (available for purchase as a paperback and an ebook from Energize, Inc). offers detailed information on how to identify and create various virtual volunteering opportunities, including micro volunteering. ORIGINAL CONTENT: https://virtualvolunteering.wikispaces.com/examples