2. What is Online-Volunteering?
Why involve Online-Volunteers
-- why volunteer online?
What Online-Volunteers can do?
Special advantages of Online-
Volunteering-Management and -
Coordination
The essential investment for Online-
Volunteering
Interactive discussion about internet
and volunteering
source: Syrvania (flickr.com)
4. „Online-Volunteering refers to
volunteer tasks completed, in a
whole or part, via the internet
and a home or work
computer.“
source: jcravens (flickr.com)
5. Answer of the German Enquête-Commission (2002):
Volunteer work is:
freely
without financial considerations
for the benefit of society
cooperative
openly
6. Accordingly Online-Volunteering means:
Online-Volunteering refers to cooperative, not enforced, non-for-profit work,
that's done not only in familiar sphere, economy or public administration, for
the benefit of society, via the internet from a home or work computer
respectively from a mobile device.
9. Virtual volunteering is volunteering
without barriers and borders.
„barriers and borders“ could be:
geographic
in terms of time
in terms of handicaps
in terms of temporary disabilities
…
Randy Tyler (www.randytyler.org)
10. „… many good reasons to involve
volunteers via online technologies“
the normally not-reached-volunteers
bloodied Netizens
disabled or handicapped people
highly skilled people that have no time
to go to an organization
daily used skills of Netizens are Please find it at:
valuable for nonprofits www.serviceleader.org
for a better working civil society
11. Patrick Daniels (Blogger on „Association for Volunteer Management“)
- volunteermanagers.org.uk
…speaks about „the long tail of volunteering“
The very active 20% The less active 80%
12. The long tail effect:
In case of volunteering the long tail effect means, that many less
active volunteers doing just very little jobs for an organization are
just as powerful as the group of more active volunteers.
Problems:
How to manage so much volunteers?
How to charge with the necessary resources in the organization?
Possible solution:
Build volunteer-task-pools and let volunteers close and work via
the Internet.
Use their resources (e.g. computers, software …)
14. Population density in the states of Europe
How can I get engaged, if I life in Finland?
15. Other reasons to volunteer online:
- work schedules get more flexible
- more possibilities for political associations
- better equipment at home than in a social Organization
- better online-reputation and –branding
-…
17. To kinds of tasks are possible:
Tasks that's result is a digital Personal contact to clients,
product in a copyable form. customers or stakeholders
21. Social Media „does take time! There is nothing virtual
about that!“ (Ellis & Cravens [2000]. Virtual Volunteering Guide Book. S. 9)
Graphic by Benth Kanter
22. The Investment:
- volunteer-management
- minimum one responsible person on 20 volunteers
- educated staff members
- educated in using social media tools
- educated in working with volunteers
- adequate technical equipment
- not the equipment from the past century
- time to do social media
- time to trail new tools
- time to make mistakes
23. In a view days you‘ll find this presentation on my
weblog (foulder.blogspot.com)
You also can contact me via Twitter
(www.twitter.com/foulder) and Facebook
(www.facebook.com/hannesjaehnert)
… and of course you can e-mail me
(jaehnert@ehrenamt.de)
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