The Virtual Volunteering Guidebook 2012
Even after I left the Virtual Volunteering Project in early 2001 and the project was put on permanent hiatus, I kept researching online volunteering, continually gathering information about the practice, and continuing to write and to train on the subject of using the Internet to engage and support volunteers. Working abroad in Germany for eight years, four of them directing the Online Volunteering service at the United Nations Volunteers programme, gave me a unique global perspect on practices around virtual volunteering as well.
In 2012, the revised Virtual Volunteering Guidebook will be released, and it will reflect all that has changed -- and remained the same -- since the first book was published online more than 10 years ago. Again co-authored with Susan Ellis and published by Energize, Inc., the revised Virtual Volunteering Guidebook still includes the basics for getting started with involving and supporting volunteers online, but it goes much father, offering detailed information to help organizations that are already engaged in virtual volunteering, and more international perspectives. The first book was focused on people who had never heard of virtual volunteering; this revised book still serves as the most comprehensive introduction to the subject available, but provides much more in-depth information and guidance for organizations already engaging online volunteers, who want to improve or expand their virtual volunteering activities.
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There's also a new chapter just for online volunteers themselves, which organizations can also use in creating their own materials for online volunteers.
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