Engage Micro-Volunteers
There is an entire community out there that is passionate about volunteering and your organization that you have NOT tapped into yet. Meet the superheros of assistance – micro-volunteers!
What are micro-volunteers? Micro-volunteers could potentially be your largest and most successful group of volunteers on your team. Micro-volunteers are in association with the idea of crowd-sourcing; asking the general public to submit solutions to a large social problem. In this case, the general public becomes your freelance staff to provide unique solutions. Micro-volunteers provide a few minutes of time to assist with large-scale jobs.
The Extraordinaires have created a fantastic database site filled with micro-volunteering opportunities that can be done anytime and anywhere – from an iPhone or a personal computer. And the Extraodinaries is asking you to be part of their database! With this database you can post micro-opporunties like “feedback” “copy editing” “photography” and “mapping”. Learn more here.
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how can I participate?in micro volunteering?
Hello Japheth,
To learn more about micro-volunteering check out http://blog.powerofthehour.ca/2009/10/micro-philanthropy/ – our head straight to the site for current micro-volunteer posting at http://app.beextra.org/home/