{"id":405,"date":"2013-05-01T14:28:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T21:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2017-05-16T19:30:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T02:30:38","slug":"volunteer-online-ever-id-love-your-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2013\/05\/volunteer-online-ever-id-love-your-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer online ever? I&#8217;d love your photo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"jayne at computer 2002\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jaynecravens\/5512859138\/in\/album-72157610618800224\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/6\/5254\/5512859138_fd50ce33f6_n.jpg\" alt=\"jayne at computer 2002\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Do you help, or have you ever helped, a nonprofit organization, non-governmental organization (NGO), grassroots organization, school, or other civil society organization (CSO) via a computer or smart phone, as a\u00a0<em>volunteer<\/em>\u00a0(that means\u00a0<em>unpaid<\/em>, NOT as a paid employee or paid consultant)?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you volunteered onsite as well, but at least sometimes, you also volunteered offsite, designing a database or graphic or web site, editing a document, translating text, offering professional advice, moderating an online discussion group, tagging photos or mentoring someone.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it was called <em>virtual volunteering<\/em>. Or <em>online mentoring<\/em>. Or <em>cyber service<\/em>. Or <em>microvolunteering<\/em>. Or <em>crowd-sourcing<\/em>. Or <em>cloud computing volunteering<\/em>. Or <em>Internet-mediated service<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it was just called <em>volunteering<\/em>, plain and simple.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it was &#8211; or wasn&#8217;t &#8211; called, I want your photo! Why? I want to feature such photos\u00a0<strong>at this Flickr Group, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/onlinevolunteers\/\">Online Volunteers<\/a>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Photos of yourself with a computer or tablet or smart phone would be great, but so would a photo of you with your dog. Or your kids. What&#8217;s most important is that you don&#8217;t just submit a photo; you also should describe what you do as an online volunteer, including either the name or a description of the organization(s) you support.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO,\u00a0<strong>please tag your photo \u201conline volunteer\u201d <\/strong>(use quotes in the tagging process).<\/p>\n<p>Submit the photos directly to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/onlinevolunteers\/\">the Flickr group for online volunteers<\/a><\/strong>&#8211; which means you will need a Yahoo ID. If you don\u2019t already have such, and don\u2019t want one, you can send ONE photo to me,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotecommunications.com\/me\/contact.html\" target=\"_blank\">via email<\/a>, however, please clearly note in your email who you are, why you are sending the photo, etc.; blank emails, or those with sketchy descriptions, will be discarded without viewing (to protect myself from computer viruses). Photos that don\u2019t clearly represent online volunteers will be rejected &#8211; that&#8217;s why your description is SO important.<\/p>\n<p>Please share this message to volunteers you work with, or anyone you think might be interested.<\/p>\n<p>Goal: to show the diversity of online volunteers out there.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotecommunications.com\/volunteer\/ovmyths.html\">The practice of online volunteering is more than 30 years old<\/a>. I want to show just what a HUGE group of people volunteer online, and have been doing so for a long while now!<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to your photos!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you help, or have you ever helped, a nonprofit organization, non-governmental organization (NGO), grassroots organization, school, or other civil society organization (CSO) via a computer or smart phone, as a\u00a0volunteer\u00a0(that means\u00a0unpaid, NOT as a paid employee or paid consultant)? 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