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Ejemplos de Voluntaria en Línea / Voluntariado Virtual Actividades

Información en español.


Como señalan los autores en este libro,  The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook, Las personas que participan en el Voluntaria en Línea / Voluntariado Virtual emprenden una variedad de actividades, largas y cortas y todo lo demás. Realizan estas actividades voluntariado en sitios remotos a la organización o las personas a las que ayudan. Realizan estas actividades a través de una computadora u otro dispositivo conectado a Internet. Y estos voluntarios están teniendo un gran impacto. Las tareas incluyen:

Mis habilidades en español no son lo suficientemente buenas como para traducir el resto de esta página. Me disculpo. -- Jayne Cravens

Ideas for High Impact Virtual Volunteering Activities
This resource is for people seeking ideas for an online project that will mobilize online volunteers in activities that lead to a sustainable, lasting benefit to a community or cause, particularly for a community or audience that is at-risk or under-served. It was created especially for programs looking for ways to engage online volunteers in high-responsibility, high-impact tasks focused on communities in the developing world, because onsite volunteering abroad is not an option - which is the reality in 2020, and probably 2021, because of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). These ideas - more than 30 - can be adapted for remote volunteering within the same country where the online volunteers live as well - "remote" could mean across town rather than around the world.


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 offers detailed information on how to identify and create various virtual volunteering opportunities, including micro volunteering. The wiki supplements and compliments the book, providing a space for ongoing discussions and for updates about new tech tools and new developments related to virtual volunteering. However, the wiki is NOT a substitute for reading the The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook, which has hundreds of pages of information that are not on this wiki.

It's worth noting that online micro-volunteering was originally called "byte-sized volunteering" by the Virtual Volunteering Project, and has always been a part of the more than 30-year-old practice of online volunteering. An early example of both micro-volunteering and crowdsourcing is ClickWorkers, a small NASA project begun in 2001 that engaged online volunteers in scientific-related tasks that required just a person's perception and common sense, but not scientific training, such as identifying craters on Mars in photos the project posted online; volunteers were not trained or screened before participating. The phrase micro-volunteering is usually credited to a San Francisco-based nonprofit called The Extraordinaries.

If you an online volunteer, you are encouraged to submit a photo of yourself to this Flickr group for online volunteers.
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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.