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21 Ways Volunteers Can Help with Your Website

AVP Volunteer 2

[Photo credit: AVP Volunteer 2 by yuan2003, on Flickr]

As any charitable organization knows, volunteers are superstars. They give love and expertise and don’t ask for a dime in return. They can be especially helpful if your organization has a website. Bearing in mind that an entire Web development project is long-term and requires dedicated knowledge and commitment that you’re better off hiring someone to do (upshot: it’s easier to fire someone whose work you’re not happy with), there are still plenty of other tasks you can assign out to people who want to help. Here are a few.

[BTW, did you read Engaging Volunteers in Your Marketing Efforts or Volunteers and Website Management?]

  1. Social networking cheerleader
  2. Add comments to blogs
  3. Contribute blog entries
  4. Participate in discussion on bulletin boards
  5. Data entry (i.e., cutting and pasting info into a new site)
  6. Website promotion
  7. Adding your website to directories
  8. Writing news updates about events
  9. Website literacy workshops
  10. Checking for dead links
  11. Updating old content
  12. Convert press releases for websites
  13. Usability testing (i.e., make sure everything works in a logical way)
  14. Bug reporting (i.e., look for and report errors or problems)
  15. Identify requirements for new development
  16. Browser testing
  17. Taking pictures for the website
  18. Formatting and uploading pictures
  19. Making videos for the site
  20. Uploading videos onto a service like YouTube or Vimeo, and adding them to site
  21. Help manage wiki

Anything we missed? Add your ideas below.

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5 Responses to “21 Ways Volunteers Can Help with Your Website”

  1. Robert Rosenthal Says:
    February 23rd, 2010 at 11:44 am

    Robert here from VolunteerMatch….Great post! Don’t forget: volunteers can also help nonprofits install VolunteerMatch on their own sites using our Syndication Tool. Any organization can use it. Why update your listings twice, when you can just update them on VolunteerMatch.org, and then they automatically refresh back on your organization’s Web site!

  2. Talance Says:
    June 15th, 2010 at 8:01 am

    That’s cool, Robert. Do you have a link to the syndication tool?

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