List of web sites mentioned in the Virtual Volunteering Guidebook

The Virtual Volunteering Wiki was developed in association with The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook, a book that was published in 2014 and is available from Energize, Inc..

These are the companies and organizations named in the book:

Adobe ConnectNow
Afghans for Afghans
Aid Workers Network
America Online (AOL), http://www.aol.com
Ancestry.com, http://www.ancestry.com
Apple Computer users forum, http://discussions.apple.com/
Arizona Pioneers' Home Volunteers' Association, http://www.aztecfreenet.org/azph/
Audacity, http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Basecamp, http://basecamphq.com
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBS), http://www.bbbs.org/
Bing, http://www.bing.com
Blogher. http://www.blogher.org
Bpeace, http://www.bpeace.org
Change.org, http://www.change.org
CharityVillage, http://www.charityvillage.com
Cisco Systems, “The Psychology of Effective Business Communications in Geographically Dispersed Teams” (PDF)
Cluetrain Manifesto, http://www.cluetrain.com/
Communication and Trust in Global Virtual Teams, by Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa and Dorothy E. Leidner, http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol3/issue4/jarvenpaa.html
Compasspoint Nonprofit Services, http://www.compasspoint.org
Consortium of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered voluntary and community organisations, http://www.lgbtconsortium.org.uk/
CraigsList, http://craigslist.org
CyberVPM, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybervpm
Digital Globe, http://www.digitalglobe.com/
Distributed Proofreaders, http://www.pgdp.net/
Do Something http://www.dosomething.org/
Do-It, http://www.do-it.org.uk/
e-volunteering (Poland), http://www.e-volunteering.eu
Electronic Emissary, http://emissary.wm.edu/
Energize, Inc., http://www.energizeinc.com
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Volunteer Monitoring Program, http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/volunteer/epasvmp.html
European Volunteer Centre, http://www.cev.be/

Facebook, http://www.facebook.com
Flickr, http://www.flickr.com
France Benevolat, http://www.francebenevolat.org
FreeForce, http://www.freeforce.nl/
GeoEye, http://www.geoeye.com/
Giving It Away - The Art of Delegation by Paul Lemberg, http://www.talkbiz.com/digest/emt17.html
Global Aware volunteer video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW5sPAxgopo
Global Aware, http://www.globeaware.com
Go Volunteer, http://www.govolunteer.com.au/
Goodwil Industries, http://www.goodwill.org
Google, http://www.google.com
GoogleAlerts, http://www.google.com/alerts
GoogleDocs, https://docs.google.com
GoogleGroups, http://groups.google.com
Googletalk, http://www.google.com/talk/
Gute-Tat - Plattform für Soziale Projekte, http://www.gute-tat.de/
hacesfalta.org/CanalSolidario, http://www.hacesfalta.org/
HandsOn Network/1-800 Volunteer, http://handsonnetwork.org
HealthCare Volunteer, http://www.healthcarevolunteer.com
HerDomain, http://www.herdomain.org
How to Delegate Effectively” by Karen Lawson, http://www.lawsoncg.com/lcgi-article_delegate.htm
Humane Society of Henderson County (Kentucky), via FaceBook
Idealist, http://www.idealist.org
Infinite Family, http://www.infinitefamily.org
International Volunteer Orientation: Working With In-Country Partners, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7ef4fBb1NA
Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, http://www.archive.org
iVisit, http://www.ivisit.com
James Irvine Foundation, http://www.irvine.org
Knowbility, http://www.knowbility.org
Lawyers Without Borders, http://www.lawyerswithoutborders.org
Learning Disabilities, a publication by the Consumer Information Center, a program of the U.S. General Services Administration, a USA Federal agency, http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/family/leardis/learndis.htm
LibriVox, http://www.librivox.org
LinkedIn, http://www.linkedin.com
Meals on Wheels, http://www.mowaa.org/
Medical Teams International International Volunteer Orientation, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7ef4fBb1NA
Medical Teams International, http://www.nwmedicalteams.org
MentorPlace, http://ibm.mentorplace.epals.org/
Microsoft Sharepoint, http://sharepoint.microsoft.com
Mozilla Foundation, http://www.mozilla.org
MySpace, http://www.myspace.com
Nabuur, http://www.nabuur.com/
National Peace Corps Association, http://peacecorpsconnect.org/
National Wildlife Federation staff micro-blogs, http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/2009/01/nwfs-staff-on-twitter/
NeoOffice, http://www.neooffice.org
NetLingo, http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php
NetSquared, http://www.netsquared.org
Network for Good, http://www.networkforgood.org
Ning, http://www.ning.com
North Carolina University's Center for Universal Design, http://www.design.ncsu.edu/cud/about_ud/udprincipleshtmlformat.html
OpenOffice.org Community Council, http://council.openoffice.org
OpenStreetMap, http://www.openstreetmap.org/
PeaceCorps, via FaceBook
Pearls of Africa, http://www.pearlsofafrica.org/
Penn State University IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON), http://gaming.psu.edu/node/402
Pew Internet & American Life Project, http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Older-Adults-and-Social-Media.aspx
Pew Research Center, http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1093/generations-online
Phil Agre, http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/
Plaxo, http://www.plaxo.com
Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org
Samaritans, http://www.samaritans.org/
San Francisco Women on the Web, http://www.sfwow.org
Sanchez Elementary School, Online Mentoring Program, http://www.coyotecommunications.com/sanchezov/index.html
SecondLife, http://www.secondlife.com
ServeNet, http://servenet.org/
Sidelines, http://www.sidelines.org
Skype, http://www.skype.com
Sparked/Extraordinaries, http://www.sparked.com
Special Olympics Utah volunteer video, http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6768737676831373533#
Successful Management in the Virtual Office, http://www.objs.com/survey/vo.htm
Survey Monkey, http://www.surveymonkey.com/
TechSoup, http://www.techsoup.org
Twitter, http://www.twitter.com
UN Open Day in Geneva, Switzerland in October 2001, http://unv.web.cern.ch/UNV/programme.htm
United Nations Online Volunteering Service, http://www.onlinevolunteering.org
United Nations Technology Service (UNITeS), http://www.coyotecommunications.com/unites/results.shtml
Virtual Volunteering Project - arhived version used for the Guidebook, http://www.coyotecommunications.com/vv/
Virtual Volunteering Project - current version, http://www.serviceleader.org/vv/
Voluntarios en la red, http://www.hacesfalta.org.mx/
Volunteer Solutions http://www.volunteersolutions.org/
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Web Women, http://www.dcWebwomen.org
WebEx, http://www.Webex.com
Wikimedia Task Force on Community Health, http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Community_Health
Wikipedia, http://www.wikipedia.org
Women of Uganda Network, via FaceBook
Workforce, http://www.workforce.com
YahooAnswers, http://answers.yahoo.com
YahooGroups, http://groups.yahoo.com
YahooMessenger, http://messenger.yahoo.com/
YouthBeat, http://www.youthbeat.com/
YouTube, http://www.youtube.com
Zoomerang, http://www.zoomerang.com


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