What's New On IOL's
Virtual Volunteering Web Site?

For volunteers:
Dos and Don'ts for Technical Assistance Volunteers

For agencies:

• Finding and Managing Technical Assistance Volunteers

• Online resources for volunteer managers
  Information continues to be added to this comprehensive list of Web sites, newsgroups and electronic mailing lists relating to volunteerism.

• First Program Affiliates Announced!
  Three organizations have been chosen as Impact Online's first Virtual Volunteering Program Affliates.

• Organizations Contributing Information to This Project
  Numerous organizations have generously provided to Impact Online first-hand accounts of their experiences with finding, screening and managing volunteers via the Internet.

• Making Email Communications More Effective
  Internationally-recognized volunteer expert Susan Ellis shares her ideas on ways to make communicating with board members and other volunteers electronically more effective.

• Setting up and managing a virtual volunteering program
  Per feedback from organizations involving volunteers via the Internet, and based on Impact Online's first hand experiences.

• Impact Online seeks disabled peoples' involvement in virtual volunteering

• What's COMING SOON on Impact Online's virtual volunteering pages

• Impact Online Affiliates Program
  Impact Online will initially work directly with 5 - 10 organizations to help them develop effective and ongoing virtual volunteering programs, and to help Impact Online detail first hand the realities of setting up and maintaining such a program, such as volunteer screening, monitoring, and recognition, as well as how look for assignments within an organization that could be handled by a volunteer via online technologies.

• Volunteer Questionnaire
  Impact Online is interested in hearing from volunteers who have worked or are working with organizations remotely via their home or work computers, and we've added an online questionnaireto capture your comments about your virtual volunteering experiences.

• Benefits of using the Internet to find and involve volunteers
  
• Examples of ways an organization can involve volunteers via the Internet
  
• Marketing your organization's volunteer opportunities online
  
• Setting up and managing a virtual volunteering program
  
• Finding and managing technical assistance volunteers
  
• Making email communications more effective
  
• Index of online resources for volunteer managers
  
• For volunteers: Dos and don'ts for technical assistance volunteers
  
• Impact Online's Virtual Volunteering home page
  

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