Rejected Book Titles

The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook:
Rejected Book Titles

In 2010, Susan Ellis and Jayne Cravens considered the name of what eventually became The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook. The conversations took place on Skype and via email.

We had some serious considerations:

Virtual Volunteering: Using the Internet to Support and Involve Volunteers

The Virtual Volunteering Guidebook: Harnessing Online Volunteer Talent for Your Organization

But they seemed so obvious. So typical. Couldn't we come up with something more eye-catching?

We refused to consider Virtual Volunteering 2.0, because we were already sick of all things 2.0

We also came up with some not-so-serious suggestions, just to keep the creative juices flowing. We decided to share these on the wiki, mostly because they still make us laugh, and they are a reflection of our contempt for tech fads:

Is Virtual Volunteering 4 U?

Virtual Volunteering, The Next Generation: Still Applying Real-World Volunteer Management Principles to Online Service.

Virtual Volunteering: On the Net, in the Cloud, by Smart Phone, or whatever comes next

Virtual Volunteering: More than a Meme

Virtual Volunteering: Viral For More than 30 Years

Virtual Volunteering: OMG! LOL!

Virtual Volunteering: coalition-based social capital refocusing cross-sector, cloud-based collaborations and cultivating robust, best-in-breed, synergistic strategies for results-based actions through emerging pipelines

Virtual Volunteering: Smart!

The Virtual Volunteering Evangelist. Praise Tron!

Virtual Volunteering: Better Than World of Warcraft

Virtual Volunteering: Better than Sexting

Virtual Volunteering: It Kicks Ass

Why did we go with the title we did? We say so why in the book - but Jayne also blogged about it here.

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Detailed information about how to use the Internet to support and involve volunteers - virtual volunteering - can be found in The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook. This wiki is a supplement to the book - but no substitution for it.

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Want to know more about using the Internet to engage and support volunteers? See:

The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook
by Jayne Cravens and Susan J. Ellis

The most comprehensive guide available on virtual volunteering, including online mentoring, micro-volunteeirng, virtual teams, high-responsibility roles, crowd sourcing to benefit nonprofits and other mission-based organizations, and much more.

Published January 2014, based on more than 30 years of research. Available as both a print book and an ebook.