What types of virtual volunteering opportunities do you wish were 
available that you haven't yet encountered?



1	Proofing, data entry for people, helping youth with homework 
	and friendship. I find it is easy to be on a level playing field for 
	all people, no mater what your abilities, etc...

2	Can't think of any.

3	No answer.

4	I'd like to do more volunteering in a similar capacity. I have not 
	finished browsing your site at this point, so I don't know if you 
	have any means for me to contact other non-profits who need 
	web page design. But, that would be a great tool for both 
	myself and the organization.

5	None.

6	That's sort of like trying to imagine that the world is round, 
	when it still *looks* flat because everyone still believes it's flat! 
	I would like contacts with organizations working with the 
	Hmong culture. I can communicate with other Americans 
	about the culture and would like to help them in designing 
	programs which will actually work with the Hmong culture if 
	they saw it more realistically. 

7	I'd like to pick up short jobs that would use my skills and 
	knowledge and put them to good use for causes I care about.

8	No answer.

9	Helping compile a women's calendar or 
	newsletter for New York City.

10	No answer.

11	The Internet is still young. Using it to the fullest degree hasn't 
	even been tapped yet.By using the Internet for research, I 
	learned about the dozens of distance-learning classes offered, 
	and now I am enrolled in two different colleges. The Internet 
	made formal education possible, even when it wasn't available 
	locally. (Distance Learning). Because of the Internet, I was 
	able to really check out working at home in my "chosen" 
	career, to see if it really is viable. We're talking life-style 
	change because of Internet resources. Volunteering via the 
	Internet hasn't even begun to be tapped. Sharing of information 
	in EVERY walk of life is possible. There are necessary 
	precautions to take. Just because someone offers free info 
	doesn't mean the info is correct. So there needs to be some 
	kind of qualifiers in place for formal volunteering via the 
	Internet. Chat rooms are one thing, formal volunteers are 
	another.

12	No answer.

13	Encouragement. Mentoring. Writing.

14	No answer.

15	No answer.

16	Until I found your site, I never thought about it - even what I 
	am doing hadn't seemed like volunteering, per se. I am used to 
	thinking of volunteerism in a small scope - I am glad to have 
	that vision expanded.

17	No answer.

18	More writing opportunities.

19	No answer.

20	A large scale web-based project with TONS of traffic.

21	Web design help for local schools.

22	I hadn't thought about it.

23	I haven't really seen any other opportunities before now.
24	I've been so busy that I haven't had time 
	to think about this one. Next time...

25	No answer.

26	No answer.

27	None I can think of.

28	No answer.

29	No ideas yet.

30	????

31	No answer.

32	More in the area of development of programs.

33	No answer.

34	I'm not sure. One talent I have seems to be an ability to debug 
	software. I have a knack for spotting *why* things are going 
	wrong and, frequently, finding a fix. With all of the buggy 
	software out there, I wish there was some way to put those 
	talents to work.

35	I haven't researched what other Virtual Volunteering 
	opportunities are available. My thought, before I saw your 
	website, had been to contact nonprofit organizations that didn't
	 already have websites to see if they would like me to set one 
	up. My experience with the Greensburg Art Club (GAC), 
	however, is that each site could become an ongoing 
	maintenance task. GAC, for example, has no members qualified 
	to maintain a website. So it will be difficult to find someone 
	else to take over maintenance if/when I want to move on. I had 
	hopes that with the new web publishing tools, my sister could 
	learn to do maintenance herself. However, it seems to be too 
	hard for someone without any computer experience beyond a 
	word processor and email. And telephone support is not a task 
	that I ever volunteer for.

36	No answer.

37	No answer.

38	No answer.

39	None. I just wish I had more time for those I know about.
	
40	I envision a hospice network, where volunteers
	can come to hospice clients and help them with a
	laptop or other computer and get them to connect
	to other hospice patients and share their
	experience and pain. They could have access to
	information on new research for their Illness or
	even alternative treatments they couldn't know
	about otherwise. Ultimately, they could gain some
	of the control over their lives that is robbed by
	their illness.

41	No answer.

42	Instead of doing it all myself, mistakes and all; I would like to
	work with others removing porno sites.

 



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