The
Last Virtual Volunteering
Guidebook details how to use online videos and
live events to train remote volunteers who will provide
volunteering service virtually. It talks about both orientation
and training videos. It talks about what should be in such videos
and how to ensure volunteers, or candidates for such, have
actually watched them.
This wiki page provides examples of online
videos used orient or train remote volunteers.
Examples of online videos used for orienting
and training volunteers.
- Family Promise Volunteer Training Videos
- for volunteers that will work with homeless families.
- "I Can Volunteer" - Project Angel Food. We
consider this the greatest training video EVER for new
volunteers. No, really, it's that good.
- International Volunteer
Orientation Working with Our In-Country Partners, video
for Medical Teams International.
- Volunteer Orientation Part 1,
video for Global Aware.
- Welcome to Volunteers (An
Informal Hello), video for Aid Workers
Network.
- Volunteer Orientation video
for World Relief Durham.
- Volunteer Orientation for Safe Sanctuaries, for
reducing the risk of child abuse in churches.
- Parent Volunteer Orientation 2012-2013 video
for Clinton Township (New Jersey) School District.
- Dozer Day Volunteer
Orientation 2013.
- Young AmeriTowne Volunteer
Orientation 2012-2013, for Young Americans Center for
Financial Education.
- Orientation for
Volunteer Web Design Teams who will be helping nonprofits
through an online build-a-thon.
- Orientation for Online
Volunteers in a transcription project. This is for the
2021 project affiliated with Douglas Day, one of the
many transcription projects of the Library of Congress's By the
People initiative. To celebrate the chosen birthday of
Frederick Douglass, February 14, online volunteers work
together to transcribe an online collection related to Black
history and culture.
- World
Pulse orientation and training for its ambassador program.
About 15 minutes.
- Midcoast
Humane Orientation for People That Will Foster Animals.
56 minutes. A comment on this video: "This talk should be
required of all adopters, not just foster parents. It's long
and detailed enough to give a really good idea of what's going
to be involved in caring for the animal. One careful hour of
listening to everything that's involved with owning a pet and
imagining how you could set your home up for success will
encourage some and discourage others."
Yahoo used to have an amazing online academy for its contributors
- all volunteers. The Yahoo Contributor Network's online training
academy had three stages of courses. For each stage, there was a
badge, earned by reading the materials and taking a quiz to prove
you understood the materials. The materials are still available on
The Internet Wayback
Machine/archive.org. It's an excellent example of a
text-based online remote training and clean design. You can see it
by cutting and pasting
https://contributor.yahoo.com/academy/
into
archive.org; if you
click on a course link and it doesn't work, type the URL again
into the Internet Wayback machine and you should be able to find
it.
Want to know what you need to keep in mind when creating your
online volunteer orientation?
The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook
can help! It's
available for purchase as a
paperback and an ebook.
The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook
provides details on this and all other aspects of supporting and
involving volunteers using Internet tools.